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African American History – Slave Life
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Weevils in the Wheat
Item #: 66597
The words of former slaves, including interviews not published previously. Edited by Charles L. Purdue, Jr., Thomas E. Barden and Robert K Phillips.
Price: $21.50
George Washington and Slavery
Item #: 1914
Fritz Hirschfeld traces Washington's transition from conventional slaveholder to lukewarm abolitionist.
Price: $39.95
To Be A Slave
Item #: 21378
By Julius Lester. What was it like to be a slave? Learn about the lives of countless slaves and ex-slaves.
Price: $6.99
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written By Herself
Item #: 5070
By Harriet A. Jacobs, edited and with an introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin. “A True Tale of Slavery,”.
Price: $18.50
Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South
Item #: 66589
This book is a companion to an exhibition organized by the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.
Price: $25.00
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Item #: 26393
This edition contains the recently discovered poem “Ocean” and new information on Wheatley's library.
Price: $19.95
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Item #: 5019
Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the American Revolution.
Price: $21.50
My Folks Don’t Want Me To Talk About Slavery
Item #: 29371
Oral histories from 21 former slaves from North Carolina
Price: $6.95
We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard
Item #: 79244
Oral histories from former slaves from Virginia.
Price: $7.95
Three African-American Classics
Item #: 13802
“Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. DuBois and “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas” by Douglas.
Price: $7.95
American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
Item #: 7477
By Edmund S. Morgan. A searching study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America; speaking for freedom and equality while owning slaves.
Price: $15.95
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