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The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Bois, W. E. B. Du,Bois, William Edward Burghardt Du

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated: May 1994

Seller ID: 348582

ISBN: 0486280411

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy advanced by Booker T. Washington, then the most influential black leader in America, would only serve to perpetua...
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Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Brown, Henry Box

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Publisher: Dover Publications: July 2015

Seller ID: 348382

ISBN: 0486795756

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

After enduring more than 30 years of slavery, Henry "Box" Brown achieved freedom by having himself nailed inside a packing crate and shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia. Initially published in 1851, Brown's extraordinary memoir recounts the harsh circumstances of his bondage as well as the details of his 350-mile journey by railroad, steamboat, and horse cart inside a container three feet long and two feet wide.
Acclaimed by Dr. Cornel West as "one of the great creative acts in the struggle for black freedom," the story of Brown's daring escape continues to resonate as a reflection of the...
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Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation

By: Cain Hope Felder (Editor)

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers: July 1991

Seller ID: 60074

ISBN: 0800625013

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Douglass

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Publisher: Dover Publications: April 1995

Seller ID: 310428

ISBN: 0486284999

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his people.
In this, the first and most frequently read of his three autobiographies, Douglass provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic ...
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Jesus and the Disinherited

By: Howard Thurman

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Beacon Press: November-1996

Seller ID: 350528

ISBN: 0807010294

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution to ending the descent into moral nihilism. Hatred does not empower--it decays. Only through self-love and love of one another can God's justice prevail.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Jacobs

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Publisher: Dover Publications: November 2001

Seller ID: 347619

ISBN: 0486419312

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North.
Written and published in 1861 after Jacobs' harrowing escape from a vile and predatory master, the memoir delivers a powerful and unflin...
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Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad'

By: Mary Cable

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): December 1977

Seller ID: 4547

ISBN: 0140046941

Condition: Used - Very Good

In August of 1839, what appeared to be a listless "pirate ship", unidentified by any flag, was spotted off the North Atlantic coast of the United States. On board were thirty barely clad black men, all of whom wore cutlasses, and two white men -- Spanish slave owners with an incredible story to tell. A month earlier, the Amistad, as the ship was known, had set sail from Havana with a valuable cargo of slaves and $40,000 worth of gold doubloons -- and in a matter of days the captain and the cook were dead, and the ship was in the control of the slaves.

Thus began "the Amistad affair", which, ...
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12 Years a Slave

By: Northup, Solomon

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Publisher: Graymalkin Media: February 2014

Seller ID: 347615

ISBN: 1631680021

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

This unforgettable memoir was the basis for the Academy Award nominated film 12 Years a Slave. This is the true story of Solomon Northup, who was born and raised as a freeman in New York. He lived the American dream, with a house and a loving family - a wife and two kids. Then one day he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the deep south. These are the true accounts of his twelve hard years as a slave - many believe this memoir is even more graphic and disturbing than the film. His extraordinary journey proves the resiliency of hope and the human spirit despite the most grueling a...
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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)

By: Olaudah Equiano

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Penguin Classics: June-2003

Seller ID: 348391

ISBN: 0142437166

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta

An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, his ten years of labor on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766, and his life afterward as a leading and respected figure in the antislav...
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Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation

By: Parks, Rosa

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Publisher: Zondervan: January 2018

Seller ID: 314159

ISBN: 0310351561

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of the social injustice. Yet, her simple act of courage started a chain of events that forever shaped the landscape of American race relations.

Now, decades after her quiet defiance inspired the modern civil rights movement, Mrs. Parks's own words tell of her courageous life, her passion for freedom and equality, and her strong faith. Reflections by Rosa Parks celebrates the principles and convictions that guided her th...
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A Sorrowful Joy (The Harold M. Wit Lectures)

By: Raboteau, Albert J.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Paulist Pr: September 2002

Seller ID: 342081

ISBN: 0809140934

Condition: Used - Very Good

Description: Albert Raboteau was born into a Catholic family in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, three months after his father was shot and killed by a white man. It was during the 1940s, when blacks couldn't swim at the same beach as whites, when the priest gave communion to white Catholics first and made others wait. In a moving account of his life, Raboteau tells how the boy grew into a man, married, became a success as a college administrator, then learned sorrow, lost his way and had to start over again. His is an American spiritual journey that is redolent of sacramental Christianity marking ...
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Emancipation of Robert Sadler, The: The Powerful True Story of a Twentieth-Century Plantation Slave

By: Sadler, R.,Chapian, Marie

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers: January 2012

Seller ID: 343123

ISBN: B00A18IIRS

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Souls of Black Folk: With The Talented Tenth and The Souls of White Folk (Penguin Classics)

By: W. E. B. Du Bois, Donald B. Gibson, Monica M. Elbert

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Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 1996

Seller ID: 322436

ISBN: 014018998X

Condition: Used - Very Good

The landmark book about being black in America, now in an expanded edition commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois's birth and featuring a new introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

"The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line."

When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America--and it remains both a touchstone...
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Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Washington

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Dover Publications: October 1995

Seller ID: 310429

ISBN: 0486287386

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Born in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated in worldwide recognition for his many accomplishments. In simply written yet stirring passages, he tells of his impoverished childhood and youth, the unrelenting struggle for an education, early teaching assignments, his selection in 1881 to head Tuskegee Institute, and more.
A firm believer in the value of education as the best route to adv...
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Up from Slavery

By: Washington, Booker T.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Digireads.com: February 2016

Seller ID: 351750

ISBN: 1420952382

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

First published serially in the Christian newspaper "The Outlook" in 1900, "Up from Slavery" is the classic autobiography of one of the most controversial figures in American history, Booker T. Washington. "Up from Slavery," recounts Washington's rise from a Virginia tobacco farm slave to his long standing tenure as President of the famed Tuskegee Institute of Alabama. Booker T. Washington was instrumental in helping to establish schools specializing in vocational training for minorities in order to advance their position in society by obtaining marketable skills. Washington's message was one ...
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The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition

By: Zeinert

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Publisher: Linnet Books: February 1997

Seller ID: 7039

ISBN: 0208024395

Condition: Used - Very Good

This work of nonfiction tells the whole story of the 1839 Amistad rebellion, from the capture of the leader Cinque in Africa to the Middle Passage to Cuba, the revolt of the 52 Africans and their capture, their long legal battle, and the final return home of the 38 men and children left alive two years later.

The Amistad affair shook the nation with its fierce fight for freedom by black people enslaved, and the support they were given by abolitionist forces in the North. Behind the scenes were legal manueverings and political ramifications: presidential aspirations in an election year; the S...
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Category: African American Studies