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The Book of Negroes: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution (Hodges Graham Russell Gao)Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most cited of American Revolutionary primary sources . This new edition salutes the Book of Negroes by using the original title of this famous accounting of Black freedom. On ... |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (Foner Eric)More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery... |
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Running (Hoffman Cara)From the critically acclaimed author of Be Safe I Love You comes a haunting novel of love, friendship, and survival set in the red light district of Athens in the 1980s that New York magazine calls a gauzy portrait of youthful longing, sticky romance, and regret.Running follows the lives of three fr... |
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Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident (Ayers Bill)In this sequel to Fugitive Days, Ayers charts his life after the Weather Underground, when he becomes the GOPs flaunted domestic terrorist, a public enemy. Labeled a domestic terrorist by the McCain campaign in 2008 and used by the radical right in an attempt to castigate Obama for pallin around w... |
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Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture (Roy Michal)Antebellum slave narratives have taken pride of place in the American literary canon. Once ignored, disparaged, or simply forgotten, the autobiographical narratives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and other formerly enslaved men and women are now widely read and studied. One key aspect of the... |
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Agents of Repression: The Fbis Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (Churchill Ward)For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBIs COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of t... |
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The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden (Bergen Peter L.)The worlds leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the riveting (The New York Times) definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today.In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden,... |
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The RatlineAs Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesfuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by... |
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The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Proust Marcel)The long-awaited penultimate volume--the very summit of Prousts art (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Prousts greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth The greatest literary work of the twentieth century. --The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edit... |
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Slavery and Racism in American Politics, 1776-1876 (Thomsett Michael C.)From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on principles of liberty, independence and freedom, slavery advocates and sympathizers positioned themselves in every aspect of American influence. Over the c... |
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Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade (Freger Charles)All across the Americas, from the sixteenth century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. Cimarr n, borrowing a Spanish-American term for these fugitive... |
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Taos - Santa Fe: Jos Gelabert-Navia - Clamshell Box (Gelabert-Navia Jos)- 20 original drawings - The beauty of Taos and Santa Fe captured with exquisite mastery - Exhibition quality production - An homage to a great painter - A remarkable artistic feat by a leading architect Between 1915 and 1917 the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev wrote a series of twenty piano piec... |
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Uncle Toms Cabin: or Life Among the Lowly; with Hammatt Billings 1st ed. illustrations & notes from a later ed. (Aziloth Books) (Stowe Harriet Beecher)Uncle Toms Cabin - the bestselling novel of the 19th century - was instrumental in exposing the brutal reality of African American slavery and played a prominent role in its abolition. Its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a stalwart Christian and committed abolitionist. In violation of the Fugit... |
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Palmares (Jones Gayl)The epic rendering of a Black womans journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a major voice in American literature. First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century.... |
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Lost President: A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America (Dunley Ruth)Though few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811-65), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of his times in several states, personifying the nineteenth-century impulse to move across the American landscape. Smiths Quixotic trail began in upstate New York, woun... |
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Cleanness'Cleanness is stunning, provocatively revelatory and atmospherically profound. Here is love and sex as art, as pulse, as truth' - Lisa Taddeo, author of Three WomenSofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters s... |
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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Toms Cabin (Ashton Susanna)The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night, he ... |
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Two for Texas (Burke James Lee)This James Lee Burke classic features Son Holland, the great-grandfather of beloved hero Billy Bob Holland, as he flees a Louisiana prison camp with a Native American woman and a fellow prisoner in tow.James Lee Burke steps back three generations to reveal the lightning-paced tale of western lawman ... |
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The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (Gordon Avery F.)The Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree, has long welcomed the participants in the various Euro-American social struggles against slavery, racial capitalism, imperialism, and authoritarian forms of order. The Archive is not a library or a research collection in the conventional sens... |
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Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny (Cecil Mark)A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and industrialization. Paul Bunyan--legendary larger-than-life Ameri... |
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