To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement 160635194X, 9781606351949, 2013042583

To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves 9780801458323

Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in M

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Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement 9780814760086

Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti’s leaders realized that if their nation was to survive, it needed

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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans 0190915196, 9780190915193

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering thi

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The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia [pbk ed.] 0807855162, 9780807855164

In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality

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The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules: Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles 9780814760970

South Los Angeles is often seen as ground zero for inter-racial conflict and violence in the United States. Since the 19

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African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement 9780804793483

Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bo

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Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party [Course Book ed.] 9781400837267

In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more

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African Americans in the Performing Arts, Revised Edition (A to Z of African Americans) [Revised] 0816078386, 9780816078387, 143812855X, 9781438128559

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The Other Great Migration: The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 [1 ed.] 9781623490034, 9781603449489

The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing no

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To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord 9781501729447

In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set

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