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Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Tobin, Jacqueline L.

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The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad.

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One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
Ransom, Roger L.

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\[I\]One Kind of Freedom\[/I\] examines the economic institutions that replaced slavery and the conditions under which ex-slaves were allowed to enter the economic life of the United States following the Civil War. The authors contend that although the kind... [More...]

Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War
Greenberg, Martin Harry

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This anthology focuses on six aspects of the political and military processes through which slavery was abolished: the rise of abolitionism in the North, the recruitment of black troops, their performance in battle, race as a factor in combat, women and the... [More...]

The Cuban Slave Market, 1790 1880
Iglesias Garcia, Fe

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This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the... [More...]

From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
Law, Robin

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This edited collection, written by leading specialists, deals with nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and development of alternative forms of "legitimate" trade. Approaching the subject from an... [More...]

Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier, 1760-1803
Newton-King, Susan

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Describing the volatile relationship between European settlers and the indigenous Khoisan peoples in eighteenth-century southern Africa, this book explores the underlying causes of this pervasive violence in the eastern Cape, and considers the fate of the... [More...]

Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936
Lovejoy, Paul E.

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This book examines the decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria during the first forty years of colonial rule. At the time of the British conquest, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest slave societies in modern history. Rather than emancipate slaves,... [More...]

Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War
Greenberg, Martin Harry

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Volume 2 looks at five effects of the Civil War on African Americans in the South and in the North. These include the war's impact of black civilians, the utilization of runaway slaves in the Union Army, the end of slavery, the ramifications of freedom for... [More...]

Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860
Stone, Jeffrey C.

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This book examines the cultural and educational history of central Missouri between 1820 and 1860. In particular, the issue of the master-slave relationships and how they affected education (broadly defined as the transmission of Southern culture) is studied.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History
Rawley, James A.

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The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical... [More...]

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