Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
By: Adam Rothman
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being pu…
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3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mex… read more
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2. Bread Givers
By: Anzia Yezierska
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manh… read more
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3. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
4. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
5. The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
By: Randy J. Sparks
3.27
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In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa,… read more
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6. Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
By: Adam Rothman
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being pu… read more
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