Booklist - Slavery & the Slave Trade - News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop, Liverpool

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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation - by Kris Manjapra

£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780141990491 | ISBN 10: 014199049x

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world. To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after ... more
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Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery - by Alex Renton

£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786898890 | ISBN 10: 1786898896

One man’s personal discovery of his family’s involvement in transatlantic slavery leads to his call for a wider reckoning among the descendants of slave owners. LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ‘An incredible work of s ... more
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts - by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez

£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241523551 | ISBN 10: 0241523559

"Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery"(Angela Y. Davis) Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the pas ... more
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Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England - by Corinne Fowler

£19.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781845234829 | ISBN 10: 1845234820

Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside’s repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness. The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and globa ... more
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Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires - by James Walvin

£20.00 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472141422 | ISBN 10: 1472141423

In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance of the enslaved themselves – from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings – and its ... more
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Liverpool and the Slave Trade - by Anthony Tibbles

£16.45 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786941534 | ISBN 10: 1786941538

During the course of more than four centuries, merchants in Liverpool were responsible for forcibly transporting over a million and a half Africans across the Atlantic to work as enslaved labourers on the plantations of the Caribbean as their ships c ... more
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All You Need to Know... Slavery - by James Walvin

£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911187844 | ISBN 10: 1911187848

Nowadays slavery is condemned almost everywhere as an abomination. For centuries, however, it was freedom, not slavery, which was the unusual condition in most parts of the world. And while today slavery is most commonly associated with the movement ... more
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My Bondage and My Freedom - by Frederick Douglass

£12.00 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300190595 | ISBN 10: 030019059x

Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation�s enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War ... more
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The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights - by Robin Blackburn

£29.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681060 | ISBN 10: 1781681066

How slavery shaped the market economy and abolitionists gave us our ideals. The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted th ... more
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The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom - by Marcus Rediker

£20.00 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781682500 | ISBN 10: 178168250x

The dramatic story of a courageous rebellion against slavery. On 28 June 1839, the Spanish slave schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana to make a routine delivery of human cargo. After four days at sea, on a moonless night, the captive Afr ... more
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Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination - by Celeste-Marie Bernier

£35.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780813933245 | ISBN 10: 0813933242

Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six i ... more
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Twelve Years a Slave - by Solomon Northup

£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780143106708 | ISBN 10: 0143106708

Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life ... more
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Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic - by Alan Rice

£16.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846317590 | ISBN 10: 1846317592

This book investigates memorials and monuments to slavery throughout the African diaspora, but with an emphasis on Europe. It analyses not only the increasing number of physical monuments, but also the practice of remembering (and forgetting) in muse ... more
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The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 - by Robin Blackburn

£19.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844674756 | ISBN 10: 1844674754

"One of the finest studies of slavery and abolition."(Eric Foner) In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of exotic products and popular pleasures. Some two and half million black slaves, imprisoned ... more
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Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery - by Edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles

£29.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846312441 | ISBN 10: 1846312442

Newly available in paperback, this edition is an important volume of international significance, drawing together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field and edited by a team headed by the acclaimed historian David Richardson.&nb ... more
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Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade - by Sian Rees

£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845951177 | ISBN 10: 1845951174

When the abolitionist Granville Sharpe bought land in Sierra Leone to 'repatriate' freed slaves, one former slave living in London foresaw trouble. 'Is it possible,' asked Ottobah Cugoano, biblically, 'that a fountain should send forth both sweet wat ... more
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution - by Simon Schama

£16.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536079 | ISBN 10: 0099536072

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-te ... more
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Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South - by Ira Berlin

£16.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781595581730 | ISBN 10: 1595581731

Widely recognized as �one of the nation�s foremost scholars on the slave era� (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize�winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in slavery and freedom. These two classic volumes, now ... more
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery - by Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Stephen F. Miller

£26.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781595582287 | ISBN 10: 1595582282

Nearly ten years ago, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers work ... more
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After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 - by Marika Sherwood

£22.50 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845113650 | ISBN 10: 1845113659

With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain washed its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. �In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that ... more
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Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery - by James G. Basker (Editor)

£24.00 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780300107579 | ISBN 10: 0300107579

Bringing together more than 400 poems and poetic excerpts on slavery by writers both famous and unknown, this landmark anthology charts the emergence of slavery in the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world. "The most definitive colle ... more
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Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia - by William J. Switala

£13.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780811731430 | ISBN 10: 081173143x

This book presents detailed maps that trace the routes runaway slaves followed. It explores the impact of geography, transportation, free blacks, and members of religious congregations on the Underground Railroad. Switala focuses on the escaped-slave ... more
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The Creole Mutiny: A Tale of Revolt Aboard a Slave Ship - by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick

£9.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781566635509 | ISBN 10: 1566635500

On the night of November 7, 1841, the Creole, a brig transporting at least 135 slaves from Richmond, Virginia, to the auction block at New Orleans, was about 130 miles northeast of the Bahamas. In the darkness, a band of 19 slaves lead by Madison Was ... more
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - by Harriet Jacobs

£8.95 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780393976373 | ISBN 10: 0393976378

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. It tells the story of Harriet Jacobs's early life as a slave in North Carolina; her fugitive years in New York, Boston, and Rochester ... more
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Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves - by Gregory A. Freeman

£12.50 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781556524479 | ISBN 10: 1556524471

The sensational story of how slavery survived into this century, and the brutal murders that changed Southern history. The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves�and this was in 1921, 56 years af ... more
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£10.20 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780435906009 | ISBN 10: 0435906003

Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in a village east of the Niger River in what is now Nigeria. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African was published in London on 1789. This is his own account of a remarka ... more
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Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War - by Edited by I. Berlin, B. J. Fields, S. F. Miller, J. P. Reidy and L.S Rowland

£21.99 paperback (1994) - ISBN 13: 9781565841208 | ISBN 10: 1565841204

A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American life in the nineteenth century. Free at Last brings together some of the most remarkable correspondence ever written by Americans. These letter ... more
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Liverpool and Slavery: A Scouse Press reprint of the 1884 account by 'Dicky Sam' - by Dicky Sam

£4.99 paperback (1985) - ISBN 13: 9780901367327 | ISBN 10: 090136732x

Facsimile reprint of a book first published in 1884, at a time when the British slave trade had been dead for more than 50 years, but many of the slave traders and captains who commanded the slave ships would still have been alive. (Which is probably ... more
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