5 must-read nonfiction books like Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade by Lisa A. Lindsay

Cover of Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade by Lisa A. Lindsay

Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

By: Lisa A. Lindsay

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Part of Prentice Hall's Key Themes in World History series. Written based on the author's annual c…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade by Lisa A. Lindsay , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nina Baym, Thomas E. Connolly

1. The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entang… read more

Similar categories in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter book and Lisa A. Lindsay's Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Cover of The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave by Henry Bibb, Charles J. Heglar

2. The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave

By: Henry Bibb , Charles J. Heglar

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

and he writes about folkways of the slaves, especially how he used conjure to avoid punishment and … read more

Similar categories in Henry Bibb's The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave book and Lisa A. Lindsay's Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Confessions by Augustine of Hippo, Henry Chadwick, Albert Cook Outler

3. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

Similar categories in Augustine of Hippo's Confessions book and Lisa A. Lindsay's Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

  • nonfiction
Cover of La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert by Joël Dicker

4. La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert

By: Joël Dicker

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A New York, au printemps 2008, alors que l'Amerique bruisse des premices de l'election presidentiel… read more

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5. The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells , Greg Bear , Carlo Pagetti

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

“I’ve had a most amazing time....” So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account … read more

Similar categories in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine book and Lisa A. Lindsay's Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

"For after the Battle comes quiet."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"[...] The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. [...]"

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

Cover of La favola di Amore e Psiche by Apuleius

6. La favola di Amore e Psiche

By: Apuleius

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Comincia come ogni favola il racconto di Amore e Psiche, con un re e una regina e le loro tre figli… read more

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"Iam nil officiunt mihi nec ipsae nocturnae tenebrae: teneo te, meum lumen."

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

"I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light."

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

"Night fell, and her husband came to bed, and as soon as they had finished kissing and embracing each other, he fell fast asleep. Psyche was not naturally either very strong or very brave, but the cru…"

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

Cover of The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya

7. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

By: Clemantine Wamariya

4.19

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of the imagination to save us Clemantine … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Now it felt like I did nothing. I had everything and I did nothing."

-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

"When you don't belong to a country, the world decides that you don't deserve a thing."

-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

"But clean, in that dress, holding Marietta and Freddy’s hands, I felt like somebody’s somebody."

-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

"She wanted to tell a true story, a complete story. No ending ever felt right. History made it hard."

-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

Cover of Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade by Lisa A. Lindsay

8. Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

By: Lisa A. Lindsay

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Part of Prentice Hall's Key Themes in World History series. Written based on the author's annual c… read more

Similar categories in Lisa A. Lindsay's Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade book and Lisa A. Lindsay's Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life by Betty Reid-Soskin

9. Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life

By: Betty Reid-Soskin

4.06

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American hist… read more

Similar categories in Betty Reid-Soskin's Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life book and Lisa A. Lindsay's Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

  • history
  • nonfiction

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