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A Harvest Book / Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. Soft cover. Fine. Stated: First Harvest edition 1999. Followed by a letter line including the letter A. Soft cover in fine condition with crisp uncreased and unmarked wraps. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. 494 numbered pages. Size approx 9 18"" tall x 6 1/4"" wide x 1 1/4"" thick. * From the rear cover, ""A riveting narrative history of America, from the Jamestown landing in 1607 to the brink of the Civil War. . . tells the shared history of Africans and Europeans as seen through the lens of slavery. Meticulously researched, this book weaves together the experiences of colonists, slaves, free and fugitive blacks, and abolitionists to present a startling and moving drama of the effects of slavery and racism on our conflicted national identity. The result transcends history as we were taught it - and transforms the way we see our past.""
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Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (Harvest Book)
by Johnson, Charles, Smith, Patricia
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The Children
by Halberstam, David
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New York: Random House, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to number line including the number two which at the time was the Random House convention for identifying first editions. Hard cover in very good condition with white boards, maroon spine cloth and copper gilt spine lettering. Internal text block clean & tight; no writings; no markings noted. Text block lightly foxed in places. Contains a center section of black & white glossy photographs of 8 leaves/16 pages. 783 numbered pages. Dust jacket in very good condition; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, "". . . [A] brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people - the Children - who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong you-are-there quality.. . . a powerful book about one of the most dramatic moments in recent American history. .…
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
by Wilder, Craig Steven
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New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated : First U.S. edition 2013 with complete number line including number one. No previous printing outside the U.S. noted. Hard cover in fine condition with brown boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. 423 numbered pages; illustrations and portraits throughout. Concludes with Section of Acknowledgments, Notes to the Chapters, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap: ""An eye-opening examination of how America's colonial-era colleges were rooted in slave economies . . . A groundbreaking history that will no doubt contribute to a reappraisal of some deep-rooted founding myths."" --from Kirkus Reviews. In Ebony & Ivy, historian Craig Steven Wilder delivers a groundbreaking and incendiary exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, race, and…
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Frederick Douglass
by [DOUGLAS] McFeely, William S.
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New Yoirk: W W Norton & Company, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards, light copper colored spine cloth, and copper gilt spine lettering. Stamped black facsimile of signature, assume author's, on front board. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Appears unread. Frontispiece black & white illustration of Frederick Douglass; 9 other black & white illustrations throughout text. Also contains two sections, one eight pages, one sixteen pages, of glossy black & white photographs. Dust jacket very good with 1/3"" closed tear at fold on bottom front. Not price clipped; there is no price. Possibly a BCE, no words to indicate BCE, no blind stamp on bottom back board, but no price, no number line. .
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
by [JACOBS] Jacobs, Harriet A.; Child, L. Maria, Editor; Yellin, Jean Fagan, Editor & Introduction
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. 10th Printing Copyright 1987. Stated Tenth Printing: 1994. Soft cover in very good condition with only ghost of shelf & edge wear to the shiny wraps. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains black & white illustrations, photographs, and facsimiles of handwritten letters, etc. * From the back cover, ""Harriet A. Jacobs was born a slave in North Carolina in 1813 and became a fugitive in the 1830s. She recorded her triumphant struggle for freedom in an autobiography that was published pseudonymously in 1861.""
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Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
by Dodson, Howard; Baraka, Amiri; Buckley, Gail Lumet; Gates Jr., Henry Louis; Gordon-Reed, Annette
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Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: National Geographic, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. OVERSIZE. 1st Printing Stated: First Printing 2002. Hard cover in very good condition. Appears unread. Black boards decorated with a Shango quilt design from a quilt made by an enslaved craftswoman. Design repeated on front & rear end papers. Text block tight; only marking: gift inscription to former owner on half title page and, only on one page, page 24, light foxing. Glossy paper; in addition to a detailed narrative, contains many black & white, sepia toned, and several colored photographs, maps, illustrations. Many photographs full page size or two page spread. Dust jacket very good with rubbing to corners and several small closed tears. * From the back jacket, ""explores every aspect of their [African American] legacy, born in sadness and suffering but transformed into both a rich heritage and an influential force in shaping the world's history...""
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Slaves in the Family
by Ball, Edward
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Ballantine Books, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition with pictorial wraps with some shelf and edge wear; age toned; crease line on front. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Mellow age toning to the papers. Contains three sections of glossy black & whtie photographs. * From a review in 'The Village Voice,' ""An expose of the original black/white divide in this country, as embodied in one extended family and the people they owned. . . By daring to zero in on his own family's trade, Ball breaks hundreds of years of silence from white people - the only way to begin this dialog between black and white people."" From the San Francisco Chronicle, ""Everyone should read and learn from this luminous book. . . Like Alex Haley's 'Roots,' through which African American history came into national focus. . . [this book] has the potential for creating a perceptual shift in the American mind .…
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Society and Culture in the Slave South (Rewriting History Series)
by Harris, William J.: Editor
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London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. Stated: First Published 1992 by Routledge, London, and simultaneously in the US and Canada by Routledge. Trade Paperback in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Price sticker on back cover. * From the back of book, a review by J. William Harris, University of NH,""Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic field. It includes substantial excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the South as a ""paternalistic"" society and culture, and contributions from recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves, men and women. The essays draw on a wide range of disciplines, including economics, psychology and…
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Uncivil War: Race, Civil Rights & the Nation
by Eyal Press: Editor; Peter Rothberg: Series Editor; Derrick Bell: Introduction
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Nation Press, 1995. Soft cover. Fine. Soft cover in fine condition with bright crisp wraps with no crease or marks. Interior text block clean & tight with less that 3/4"" spot of soiling on bottom corner of text block; does not go through to the pages themselves. * From the Editor's Note: ""This anthology does not pretend to include all of the best writing on race and civil rights that has appeared in 'The Nation"" in the past 130 years. It features, instead, selections that illuminate the magazine's steadfast commitment to racial justice in a variety of voices and hues. ...each is infused with moral passion and a critical edge. ... ""
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The Value in the Valley: A Black Woman's Guide Through Life's Dilemmas
by Vanzant, Iyanla
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New Yoirk: Fireside Book / Simon & Schuster, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 3rd Printing Stated: First Fireside Edition 1996, Third Printing per number line. Soft cover in very good condition with mellow age toning to the papers and mild shelf & edge wear to the wraps. Interior text block clean & tight with only writing that on half-title page of a gift inscription from a mother to a daughter (to help to find your myth) dated 1997. No other markings noted. * From Linton Weeks of The Washington Post, ""Iyanla Vanzant has been down and out. Now her books are pulling others up."" [The Blackboard Book of the Year.]
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And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
by Oney, Steve
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New Yoirk: Pantheon Books, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Hard cover in very good condition with dark gold boards and black spine cloth with gold gilt lettering. Contains two sections each eight leaves / 16 pages of black & whtie photographs. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Side of text block edges are deckle edged. Dust jacket very good with light shelf wear; a closed tear on the bottom of back panel was scotch taped. Not price clipped. * From the book, "" On April 27, 1913, the bludgeoned body of thirteen-year old Mary Phagan was discovered in the basement of Atlanta's National Pencil Factory. The girl's murder would be the catalyst for an epic saga that to this day holds a singular place in America's collective imagination - a saga that would climax in 1915 with the lynching of Leo Frank . . . who was convicted of the murder. The case has been the subject of novels, plays, movies and even musicals,…
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