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1	Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World more books like this by David Brion Davis add to wishlist David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award - including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award - and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Now, in ... see all copies from $3.83! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights more books like this by David S Reynolds add to wishlist This biographical study of the famed abolitionist places John Brown in the context of the antislavery movement prior to the Civil War, and also examines his very complicated legacy for his immediate heirs and for the generations that followed. A pivotal figure in American history, Brown is seen by many as either a madman or a terrorist, and there ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $10.46! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom more books like this by Professor Catherine Clinton add to wishlist Harriet Tubman was the one-time slave who escaped and fled North and whose amazing life included being a conductor of the Underground Railroad, scout for the Union army during the Civil war, and a public speaker on behalf of not only abolition but women's suffrage. Tubman is a central figure in African American history, yet has been overlooked in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Works of James McCune Smith: Black Intellectual and Abolitionist more books like this by James McCune Smith, John Stauffer (Editor), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Foreword by) add to wishlist The first African American to receive a medical degree, this invaluable collection brings together the writings of James McCune Smith, one of the foremost intellectuals in antebellum America. The Selected Writings of James McCune Smith is one of the first anthologies featuring the works of this illustrious scholar. Perhaps best known for his ... see all copies from $8.70! new only from $12.98! \| SVS
5	Abolition and the Press: The Moral Struggle Against Slavery more books like this by Ford Risley add to wishlist This examination of nineteenth-century journalism explores the specific actions and practices of the publications that provided a true picture of slavery to the general public. From Boston's strident Liberator to Frederick Douglass' North Star, the decades before the Civil War saw more than forty newspapers founded with the specific aim of ... see all copies from $15.50! new only from $18.40!
6	The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts more books like this by William Still, Ian Frederick Finseth (Editor) add to wishlist A "conductor" based in Philadelphia, Still (1821-1902) helped guide fugitive slaves to safety in the years before the Civil War. He also created this unforgettable history, a collection of carefully preserved letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' hardships, narrow escapes, and deadly struggles. Over 50 illustrations. ... see all copies from $7.94! new only from $7.94! \| SVS
7	A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865 more books like this by Mason I Lowance, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and - unique to this volume - proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible ... see all copies from $27.95! new only from $27.95!
8	Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery more books like this by David Brion Davis add to wishlist Here, David Brion Davis offers a perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world slavery, he traces continuities from the ancient world to the era of exploration, with its expanding markets and rise in consumption of such products as sugar, tobacco, spices and chocolate, to the ... see all copies from $2.32! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism more books like this by Timothy Patrick McCarthy (Editor), John Stauffer (Editor) add to wishlist The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation. The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
10	Africa Squadron: The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842-1861 more books like this by Donald L Canney add to wishlist Donald L. Canney's study is the first book-length history of the U.S. Navy's Africa Squadron. Established in 1842 to enforce the ban on importing slaves to the United States, in twenty years' time the squadron proved ineffective. To officers and enlisted men alike, duty in the squadron was unpopular. The equatorial climate, departmental neglect, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.64! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism more books like this by Maurice Jackson add to wishlist Anthony Benezet (1713-84), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenth-century antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Huguenot family in Saint-Quentin, France. As a boy, Benezet moved to Holland, England, and, in 1731, Philadelphia, where he rose to prominence in the Quaker antislavery community. In transforming Quaker ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $34.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Underground Railroad Set: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations more books like this by Mary Ellen Snodgrass add to wishlist The culmination of years of research in dozens of archives and libraries, this fascinating encyclopedia provides an unprecedented look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. In ... see all copies from $283.07! new only from $283.07!
13 view cover	The Struggle Against Slavery: A History in Documents more books like this by David Waldstreicher add to wishlist From slave ships to plantations to freedom, The Struggle Against Slavery traces the remarkable history of the heroic fight to end slavery, from its North American beginnings in the early 1600s to its violent demise in the mid-1800s with the Civil War. Captured in their own words from transcripts, diaries, memoirs, newspaper clippings, drawings, ... see all copies from $9.42! new only from $38.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition more books like this by Jacqueline Bacon add to wishlist Offering an alternative account of the abolitionist movement, The Humblest May Stand Forth analyzes the rhetoric of African Americans and white females involved in the crusade against slavery and examines the particular strategies they chose to advocate despite their positions at the periphery of the movement. Jacqueline Bacon explores how these ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
15 view cover	My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman. more books like this by Frederick Douglass, John S Wright (Introduction by), James M'Cune Smith (Introduction by) add to wishlist Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) was born into slavery by a slave mother and an unknown father. At the age of eight, he started to educate himself with the help of his master's wife. In 1838, he fled Baltimore for the north. There he soon became a noted author and speaker on slavery. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.93! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Frederick Douglass more books like this by Catherine A Welch add to wishlist Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass grew up knowing that the only way he'd ever gain his freedom would be if he took it. Believing that words had the power to change people's minds, he risked harsh punishment, and even his life, to help teach slaves how to read. Once he had escaped, he risked his life again and again to write articles and to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Abolitionist Movement: Ending Slavery more books like this by Tim McNeese add to wishlist The abolitionist movement, which was a campaign to end the practice of slavery and the slave trade, began to take shape in the wake of the American Revolution. In the years leading up to the Civil War, the movement continued to gain strength, largely due to the determination of such leaders as William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.79! \| SVS
18 view cover	John Brown: Legend Revisited more books like this by Merrill D Peterson add to wishlist Few figures hold as mythic a place in America's historical consciousness as John Brown. A fervent abolitionist, his New England reserve tempered by a childhood on the Ohio frontier, Brown advocated arming fugitive slaves to fight for their freedom, an idea that impressed Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. In 1855, ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $24.75! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Abolition of Slavery: Fighting for a Free America more books like this by Suzanne Cloud Tapper add to wishlist - Exciting topics for research and reports - Great in-depth coverage - Fact-filled sidebars - Attractive color photos and design - Suppo rts the History/Social Studies curriculum see all copies from $8.06! new only from $14.95! \| SVS
20 view cover	Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates more books like this by Alisse Portnoy add to wishlist When Alisse Portnoy recovered petitions from the early 1830s that nearly 1,500 women sent to the U.S. Congress to protest the forced removal of Native Americans in the South, she found the first instance of women's national, collective political activism in American history. In this groundbreaking study, Portnoy links antebellum Indian removal ... see all copies from $39.00! new only from $58.50! \| SVS
21 view cover	Democratic Dissent & Cult Fictions more books like this by Stephen J Hartnett add to wishlist In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the 'cultural fictions' that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire, and representation and self-making. Drawing on a rich array of persuasive materials - including ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $38.00! \| first editions
22 view cover	Fleeing to Freedom on the Underground Railroad: The Courageous Slaves, Agents, and Conductors more books like this by Elaine Landau add to wishlist see all copies from $17.98! new only from $29.17! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Underground Railroad more books like this by Michael Burgan, Philip Schwarz (Editor) add to wishlist The transatlantic slave trade and the fugitive slave laws in the late 18th century led to a significant increase in the number of people seeking freedom. Runaway slaves were often aided in their escape by a growing network of people who saw slavery as morally reprehensible. This network, the Underground Railroad, was first organized in the 1830s ... see all copies from $18.41! new only from $39.34! \| SVS
24 view cover	Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitiionism more books like this by Timothy Patrick McCarthy (Editor), John Stauffer (Editor) add to wishlist The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation. The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the ... see all copies from $23.28! new only from $64.31!
25 view cover	John Brown's War Against Slavery more books like this by Robert E McGlone add to wishlist McGlone reconstructs John Brown's aborted war' to free the 3.8 million slaves in the American South before the Civil War. see all copies from $14.73! new only from $21.29! \| first editions \| SVS

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