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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon. Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American's personal sovereignty. And yet, millions...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian"--
Weber provides a groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe. From wars to subjugate Native Americans in the mid-nineteenth century to the present, he reveals how the deliberate use of prisons to control restive, subject populations is written into our national DNA. Weber also uncovers a surprising...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After giving birth to a son with dominant African traits, a white Southern enslaver must decide if she'll hold onto her bigotry at the cost of her heart. When Caroline Gibson marries the Reverend John Mattocks, she leaves behind her privileged life, which she finds easier than leaving behind her prejudices. While she's content being served, John lives to serve others. Scorning his family's wealth and long-held practice of owning slaves, he chooses...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Learn about the causes of the Civil War. What were the events that triggered the start of the Civil War? What was the Missouri Compromise? What was Nat Turner's rebellion? What was the Fugitive Slave Act? What was Uncle Tom's Cabin? What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? How did the secession of southern states contribute to the start of the Civil War? The answers to all of these questions are covered with detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting video,...
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