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1	The Warrior's Path: The Sacketts more books like this by Louis L'Amour add to wishlist The Sacketts walked tall in the untamed forests and wild mountain paths, strong men who sought peace in the savage wilderness. That peace was challenged when rival Indian trives threatened war, and ruthless white men, hoping to exploit the tensions, kidnapped a settler's beautiful daughter. Only Kin Sackett and his brother Yance dared to make the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.65! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Dark Watch more books like this by Clive Cussler, Jack B Du Brul add to wishlist Juan Cabrillo and his crew aboard the spy ship "Oregon" are hired by a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Slave Ship: A Human History more books like this by Marcus Rediker add to wishlist Much is known of the American slave trade, but little of the ships that had made it all possible. Award-winning historian Rediker draws on 30 years of research in maritime archives to create an unprecedented history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. see all copies from $4.09! new only from $4.15! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Jade Star more books like this by Catherine Coulter add to wishlist In the final novel of Coulter's Star series, Saint Morris meets Juliana DuPres on Maui when he is a young doctor landing off of a whaler and she is the 13-year-old daughter of a minister. Six years later, Saint sees Juliana again--being sold in a slave auction in San Francisco. Saint saves her, thinking of himself as her protector. Juliana has ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 more books like this by Hugh Thomas add to wishlist The author documents the slave trade, from its beginnings on the coast of West Africa in the fifteenth century, following the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until its abolition in the late nineteenth century. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	To Be a Slave more books like this by Julius Lester add to wishlist The words of black men and women who had themselves been slaves are here, accompanied by Julius Lester's historical commentary and the powerful, muted paintings of Tom Feelings. "To Be a Slave", a Newbery Honor Book, has been a touchstone in children's literature for over 30 years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sacred Hunger more books like this by Barry Unsworth add to wishlist This book is the winner of the 1992 Booker prize. 'Gripping..."Sacred Hunger" covers a period between 1752 and 1765...it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for 'denying Holy Writ'...the Liverpool Merchant ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Slave Dancer more books like this by Paula Fox add to wishlist Fourteen-year-old Jessie Bollier, an excellent flute player, is kidnapped from New Orleans during the summer of 1840 and forced into service on a slave-trader ship bound for Africa. On board, Jessie is forced to be the Slave Dancer, who plays the flute while the slaves "dance" in their shackles for exercise. Winner of the 1974 Newbery Medal. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust more books like this by John Henrik Clarke add to wishlist see all copies from $5.87! new only from $5.87! \| SVS
10	The Captive more books like this by Joyce Hansen add to wishlist Loosely based on an actual slave narrative, this is the story of 12-year-old Kofi who is kidnapped from his homeland in Africa. Sold as a slave in Massachusetts where slavery is illegal yet still tolerated, Kofi learns to read and speak English. He eventually manages to escape and is rescued by Paul Cuffe, a wealthy African-American ship builder. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution more books like this by Charles Rappleye add to wishlist From the author of "American Mafioso" comes the story of the Brown brothers, leading slave merchants of Providence, Rhode Island, during the time of the American Revolution. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Atlantic Slave Trade more books like this by David Northrup add to wishlist A volume in the Problems in World History series, this book features a variety of secondary-source essays that are carefully edited for both content and length, making this single volume a convenient alternative to course packets or multiple monographs. Most often used as a supplementary text for upper-level courses, The Atlantic Slave Trade ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.94!
13 view cover	The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 more books like this by Professor Alan Gallay add to wishlist This study focuses on the traffic in Indian slaves during the early years of the American South. The Indian slave trade was of central importance from the Carolina coast to the Mississippi Valley for nearly 50 years, linking southern lives and creating a whirlwind of violence and profit-making, argues Alan Gallay. He documents in detail how the ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $9.97! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism more books like this by Professor Herman Melville, Dan McCall (Editor) add to wishlist Collected in this volume are "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "Billy Budd" - presented in the best texts available, those published during Herman Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author. Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.22! \| SVS
15 view cover	Oroonoko more books like this by Aphra Behn, Professor Janet Todd (Notes by) add to wishlist Aphra Behn (1640-1689), the first Englishwoman to earn a living with her pen, wrote this combination of memoir, narrative, and biography to tell the story of a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave. see all copies from $3.19! new only from $5.50! \| SVS
16 view cover	Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil more books like this by Robert Edgar Conrad add to wishlist This is a collection of documents covering all aspects of slavery in Brazil, from its beginnings in Portugal and Africa in the 15th century to its abolition in 1888. see all copies from $17.50! new only from $32.18! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery more books like this by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, Jenifer Frank add to wishlist Rich with historical documents and photos, this narrative dispels the myths surrounding the history of slavery in this country, revealing the North's deep dependence on slave commerce and its own exploitation of slave labor. see all copies from $2.97! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Blonde Roots more books like this by Bernardine Evaristo add to wishlist A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade, "Blond Roots" reverses and reexamines notions of savagery and civilization as it follows a young woman's journey to freedom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.05! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Atlantic Sound more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips considers many aspects of racism in general and the slave trade in particular, including an account of the prejudices he encountered as a Caribbean black in Liverpool, the Africans who collaborated with the slavers in the 18th and 19th centuries, the ironies inherent in blacks' "returning" to Africa, and his own ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic more books like this by Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Buford Rediker add to wishlist For most readers the tale told here will be completely new. For those already acquainted with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image of that age which they have been so carefully taught and cultivated will be profoundly challenged. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $19.92! \| SVS
21	Trade Wind more books like this by M M Kaye add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $125.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Diligent: Worlds of the Slave Trade more books like this by Robert Harms add to wishlist The Diligent began her journey in Brittany in 1731, and Harms follows her along the African coast where her goods were traded for slaves, to Martinique where her captives were sold to work on sugar plantations. Harms brings to life a world in which slavery was a commerce carried out without qualms. He shows the gruesome details of daily life ... see all copies from $5.19! new only from $12.54! \| SVS
23 view cover	African Slave Trade more books like this by Basil Davidson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.63! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Warriors Path more books like this by Louis L'Amour add to wishlist The Sacketts walked tall in the untamed forests and wild mountain paths, strong men who sought peace in the savage wilderness. That peace was challenged when rival Indian trives threatened war, and ruthless white men, hoping to exploit the tensions, kidnapped a settler's beautiful daughter. Only Kin Sackett and his brother Yance dared to make the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery more books like this by Eric Metaxas add to wishlist Now available in paperback, this short, popular biography of England's heroic abolitionist commemorates the 200th anniversary of the defeat of slavery and is the official tie-in book for the movie Amazing Grace by Walden Media see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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