Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
By: Karen Cook Bell
4.06
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all…
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1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- history
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
2. The Ballad of Black Tom
By: Victor LaValle
3.85
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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"I wish I’d been more like my father,"-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
3. American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
By: Alan Taylor
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
Often wishfully understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution builds in this … read more
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4. The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
By: Manisha Sinha
4.00
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by rac… read more
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5. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
By: None
3.57
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edm… read more
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6. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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7. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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8. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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9. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
By: Eric Jay Dolin
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more
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10. Swordheart
By: T. Kingfisher
4.15
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate… and, unfortunately, his… read more
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"Your god. Why a rat?"-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
"Zale steepled their fingers. “Do you want to talk about that?"-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
"Sarkis turned around and began to beat his forehead very gently against the wall. “The great god is punishing me,"-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
"The miller back home was like that,' she said. 'He had a little bit of power and he lorded it over everyone. Although there's less damage you can do with a mill than with a religious order."-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
11. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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- american history
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
12. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
By: Lex Croucher
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom-com YA debut about love, friendship, … read more
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"To be afraid you must have something you cannot bear to lose."-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
"You know fathers aren't always right just by virtue of being fathers."-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
"Not everybody lives for the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the little black and white squares"-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
"The problem with compromise is that... you sit on the fence for so long that you discover you've built a kingdom on it."-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
13. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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14. Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
By: Ada Ferrer
4.19
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern worl… read more
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15. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
By: Julius S. Scott
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more
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16. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By: Vincent Brown
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an… read more
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17. The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
By: Farah Karim-Cooper
4.07
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare still rel… read more
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18. Desert Creatures
By: Kay Chronister
3.50
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a world that has become treacherous and desiccated, Magdala has always had to fight to survive. … read more
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19. Breaking and Entering
By: Don Gillmor
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
In the midst of the hottest summer on record, a woman tests the increasing tension between our soci… read more
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20. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
By: Peter H. Wood
4.04
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Black Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. read more
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21. Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
By: Karen Cook Bell
4.06
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all… read more
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