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    Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

    David W. Blight

    The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century–Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading…

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    Yale and Slavery

    David W. Blight

    A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University

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    Yale and Slavery

    David W. Blight

    A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University

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    The Columbian Orator

    Presents 84 selections, most of which are notable examples of oratory on such subjects as nationalism, religious faith, individual liberty, freedom, and slavery. This book includes pieces by Washington, Franklin…

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    Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War

    David W. Blight

    This work explores how the contested memory of the Civil War has shaped American race relations. It demonstrates several ways to probe the history of memory, to understand how and…

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    Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee

    David W. Blight

    This biography undertakes a systematic analysis of the impact of the American Civil War on Frederick Douglass’ life and thought, offering new insights into the meaning of the war in…

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    The Columbian Orator

    Presents 84 selections, most of which are notable examples of oratory on such subjects as nationalism, religious faith, individual liberty, freedom, and slavery. This book includes pieces by Washington, Franklin…

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    Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

    David W. Blight

    An acclaimed historian’s definitive biography of the most important African-American figure of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass, who was to his century what Martin Luther King, Jr. was to the…

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    Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

    David W. Blight

    No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America’s collective memory as the Civil War. In the war’s aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic…

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    American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era

    David W. Blight

    David Blight takes his readers back to the Civil War’s centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. He shows how…

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    When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster

    Chronicle of an ordinary Union soldier caught up in extraordinary events through a collection of letters

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    Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (loa #358)

    Frederick Douglass

    Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, selected by his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer

    Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest orators…

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    My Bondage and My Freedom

    Frederick Douglass

    Born into slavery in 1818, the author escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation’s enslaved African American…

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    Delia’s Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

    Molly Rogers,David W. Blight

    In 1850, seven South Carolina slaves were photographed at the request of the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz to provide evidence of the supposed biological inferiority of Africans. This title tells…

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    A People and a Nation

    Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, Beth Bailey

    Think history is dull? No way -- and you're about to find out for yourself. Kamensky/Bailey/Sheriff/Chudacoff/Logevall/Blight's A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 12 Edition, offers…

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    A People and a Nation, Volume I: to 1877

    Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, Beth Bailey

    Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for yourself. Kamensky/Bailey/Sheriff/Chudacoff/Logevall/Blight's A PEOPLE AND A NATION, VOLUME I: to 1877, 12th Edition, offers a lively narrative…

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    A People and a Nation, Volume II: Since 1865

    Howard Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, Beth Bailey, Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight

    Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for yourself. Kamensky/Bailey/Sheriff/Chudacoff/Logevall/Blight's A PEOPLE AND A NATION, VOLUME II: SINCE 1965, 12th Edition, offers a lively narrative…

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    Who Speaks for the Negro?

    Robert Penn Warren

    The author interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Malcom X, and James Baldwin. In this title, sections…

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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself

    University David W Blight, PH. D. (Yale University)

    Get to know the iconic historical figure, Frederick Douglass through his story and his writing as the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass details his entire bioography from where…

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    A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

    University David W Blight, PH. D. (Yale University)

    Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of the past, are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of…

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    Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy

    Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking assembles leading social scientists and historians from the Yale Working Group on Modern Slavery to tackle key controversies surrounding the anti-slavery movement, marshalling insights…

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    Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy

    Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking assembles leading social scientists and historians from the Yale Working Group on Modern Slavery to tackle key controversies surrounding the anti-slavery movement, marshalling insights…

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    Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition

    While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal…

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    Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    David Eltis,David Richardson

    A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade

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    Hope Is the First Great Blessing: Africa: Leaves from the African Free School Presentation Book 1812-1826

    University David W Blight, PH. D. (Yale University)

    Hope is the First Great Blessing : Leaves from the African Free School Presentation Book 1812-1826 reproduces in facsimile over 50 drawings, calligraphic exercises, essays and poems produced by African…

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    A Fluid Frontier

    As the gateway into British North America for travellers on the Underground Railroad, the US/Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of enslaved people…

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    The Frederick Douglass Collection

    Frederick Douglass, Henry Louis Gates Jr., David W. Blight

    For the first time in a deluxe collector's boxed set, the definitive edition of the writings of the great African American freedom fighter, including all 3 of his classic memoirs…

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    The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

    Austin Reed

    A rare and original autobiography, a first-person account of a young black man’s life as an indentured servant, a juvenile delinquent, and a prisoner in New York State in the…

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    Bundle: A People and a Nation, Volume I: To 1877, Loose-Leaf Version, 11th + Mindtap History, 1 Term (6 Months) Printed Access Card

    Jane Kamensky,Carol Sheriff,David W Blight,Howard Chudacoff,Fredrik Logevall

    Students save money when purchasing bundled products. This bundle contains A People and a Nation, Volume I: to 1877, Loose-leaf Version, 11th, and access to MindTap History for 1 term…

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    Young Frederick Douglass

    Dickson J. Preston (son Dickson H Preston)

    This highly regarded biography traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass, from his birth on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1818 to 1838, when he escaped from slavery to emerge…

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    The Souls of Black Folk

    W. E. B. Du Bois,W.E.B. Du Bois

    W.E.B. du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk is a text of African American letters and history. The original 1903 edition is reprinted with annotations by two prominent du Bois…

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    A People and a Nation, Volume I: to 1877

    Jane Kamensky (Harvard University),Carol Sheriff (College of William and Mary),David W. Blight (Yale University),Howard Chudacoff (Brown University),Fredrik Logevall (Harvard University)

    Tells the stories of all people in the United States. This title presents the authors’ attention to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture…

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    A People and a Nation, Volume II: Since 1865

    Jane Kamensky (Harvard University),Carol Sheriff (College of William and Mary),David W. Blight (Yale University),Howard Chudacoff (Brown University),Fredrik Logevall (Harvard University)

    Tells the stories of all people in the United States. This title offers the authors’ attention to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture…

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    A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Brief Edition

    Jane Kamensky (Harvard University),Carol Sheriff (College of William and Mary),David W. Blight (Yale University),Howard Chudacoff (Brown University),Fredrik Logevall (Harvard University)

    Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating stories of all people in the United States in Norton’s best-selling A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE…

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    A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877, Brief Edition

    Jane Kamensky (Harvard University),Carol Sheriff (College of William and Mary),David W. Blight (Yale University),Howard Chudacoff (Brown University),Fredrik Logevall (Harvard University)

    Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating stories of all people in the United States in Norton’s best-selling A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE…

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    A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Volume II: Since 1865, Brief Edition

    Jane Kamensky (Harvard University),Carol Sheriff (College of William and Mary),David W. Blight (Yale University),Howard Chudacoff (Brown University),Fredrik Logevall (Harvard University)

    Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating stories of all people in the United States in Norton’s best-selling A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE…

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    A People and a Nation: A History of the United States

    Jane Kamensky (Harvard University),Carol Sheriff (College of William and Mary),David W. Blight (Yale University),Howard Chudacoff (Brown University),Fredrik Logevall (Harvard University)

    Tells the stories of all people in the United States.

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    A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Brief 10th Edition

    Mary Beth Norton (Cornell University),Carol Sheriff (College of William and Mary),David W. Blight (Yale University),Howard Chudacoff (Brown University),Fredrik Logevall (Harvard University)

    Offers a narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States.

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    Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation

    This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century…

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    Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation

    This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century…

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    Final Resting Places

    In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite-including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows…

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    Final Resting Places

    In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite-including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows…

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