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FORCED INTO GLORY
: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream
[Lerone Bennett, Jr]
Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness surveys the president's policies, speeches, and private utterances and concludes that he had little real interest in abolition. Pointing to Lincoln's support for the fugitive slave laws, his friendship with slave-owning senator Henry Clay, and conversations in which he entertained the idea of deporting slaves in order to create an all-white nation, the book, concludes that the president was a racist at heart -- and that the tragedies of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era were the legacy of his shallow moral vision.
REVIEW: "The most systematic, best-researched, and compelling critique of Lincoln's [beliefs about race] that I know of." -- Journal of Blacks in Higher Education"
{
662pp,
155x230mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£15.50,
0874850029:9780874850024
, IPG (Johnson Publishing Co.)
} |
 |
PECULIAR IMBALANCE
: The Fall & Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota
[William D Green]
In the 1850s, as Minnesota Territory was reaching toward statehood, settlers from the eastern United States moved in, carrying rigid perceptions of race and culture into a community built by people of many backgrounds who relied on each other for survival. History professor William Green unearths the untold stories of African Americans and contrasts their experiences with those of Indians, mixed bloods, and Irish Catholics. He demonstrates how a government built on the ideals of liberty and equality denied the rights to vote, run for office, and serve on a jury to free men fully engaged in the lives of their respective communities.
{
218pp,
155x230mm,
February 2007;
HB,
£21.99,
0873515862:9780873515863
, Minnesota Historical Society Press
} |
 |
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE
: Canadian Anti-Racist Feminist Thought
[Enakshi Dua & Angela Robertson (eds)]
This book brings together 14 anti-racist feminists who examine ways in which race and gender interact to shape the lives of women of colour in Canada. This collection of articles covers a broad range of topics such as the impact of colonialism and its associated discourses on First Nations and other groups of colonised women; racism in the Canadian labour movement; the impact of globalisation on women of colour; the ways in which the institution of the nuclear family shapes racism; sexism in communities of colour; and the ways in which the women's movement can create an anti-racist praxis. The book not only provides exciting new insights into how women of colour experience Canadian society, but also provides instructors with a textbook that integrates anti-racist and feminist approaches.
{
336pp,
155x230mm,
December 1999;
PB,
£14.99,
0889612307:9780889612303
, Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press)
} |
 |
UNEASY PARTNERS
: Multiculturalism & Rights in Canada
[Janice Stein, David Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel & Hooran Siddiqui (eds)]
After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value should trump which and under what circumstances? The opening essay deliberately sharpens the conflict among religion, culture, and equality rights and proposes to shift some of the existing boundaries. Other contributors disagree strongly, arguing that this position might seek to limit freedoms in the name of justice, that the problem is badly framed, or that silence is a virtue in rebalancing norms. The contributors not only debate the analytic arguments but infuse their discussion with their personal experiences, which have shaped their perspectives on multiculturalism in Canada. This volume is a highly personal as well as strongly analytic discussion of multiculturalism in Canada today.
{
165pp,
155x230mm,
April 2007;
PB,
£14.99,
1554580129:9781554580125
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
} |
 |
BRIGHTER COMING DAY
[Frances Ellen Watkins Harper]
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known and best loved African American poet of her time, as well as a teacher and lecturer on abolition, suffrage, education, and many other topics. This anthology contains all of her extant poetry and generous selection of prose and letters, and provided moving portraits of suffering under slavery, as well as of freedom, love, infidelity, poverty, and heroism. As the New York Times Book Review notes, "This anthology... not only provides the first modern biography of Harper, but also illuminates her connection to... 20th-century writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.". For course use in: abolition and slavery, African American studies, 19th-century US literature.
{
432pp,
160x230mm,
January 1989;
PB,
£15.50,
1558610200:9781558610200
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
HOW I WROTE JUBILEE
: And Other Essays on Life & Literature
[Margaret Walker]
In this first comprehensive collection of autobiographical and literary essays, Margaret Walker -- described by Booklist as "one of the intellectual beacons of her generation" -- recounts the search for family and social history from which she wrote her carefully researched novel of the Civil War. The autobiographical essays reflect on her work and her life as an artist, an African American, and a woman, while the literary essays examine the writings of such giants as Richard Wright, W E B Du Bois, Phillis Wheatley, and others. For course use in: African American studies, autobiography, Southern US literature
{
184pp,
150x230m,
January 1990;
PB,
£9.99,
1558610049:9781558610040
, Feminist Press
} |
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MAP OF THE ISLAND
: Poems
[Nigel Darbasie]
A Map of the Island is an extended poetic meditation upon a boy's youth in Trinidad. In these verses we hear the cadences of the West Indies spoken from the distance of the Canadian prairies.
REVIEW: "In its entirety, the collection forms a cultural mosaic taking the reader on a relatively gentle, yet disruptive, post-colonial journey. Separately, each poem stands on its own as an elegantly written snapshot from a single lifetime. The inclusion of actual photos on the back cover complete the autobiographical framework and gives this text a sense of authenticity within a poetic vision that simultaneously threatens and challenges the notion of the authentic at every turn.... A Map of the Island stands alone as a beautifully connected mosaic that also exists separately as individual poems laying claim to the experience of youth - both connected and disconnected by geography, material goods, nation, and colonialist disruption." David Bateman, Canadian Ethnic Studies.
{
70pp,
155x230mm,
May 2001;
PB,
£9.99,
0888643713:9780888643711
, University of Alberta Press
} |
 |
RUDE
: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism
[Rinaldo Walcott (ed)]
This is an anthology of critical writing on Black Canadian culture. The anthology is meant to convey the idea of a burgeoning response to Black Canadian cultural expression and what it means both for various Black communities and the Canadian nation. The anthology departs from uncritical celebration to critically engage with Black Canadian expressive cultures. The essayists do more than celebrate Canadian nationalism: they attempt to cast a complex analysis of its limits and its possibilities through the examination of Black lives, cultures and events in Canada and abroad. The book fills a void in the Canadian cultural landscape, where Black responses to the nation are always framed in terms of anti-racism. It attempts to open debate among and across Black communities in Canada, to uncover the complexities of Black life and Black living. It moves beyond the sentimental and the romantic to usher in the era of a forceful Black public cultural criticism, unlike anything that's come before it.
{
256pp,
155x230mm,
January 2000;
PB,
£8.99,
189583774X:9781895837742
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
WHAT'S A BLACK CRITIC TO DO?
: Interviews, Profiles & Reviews of Black Writers
[Donna Bailey Nurse]
This groundbreaking collection of in-depth profiles, unique interviews, incisive essays and succinct reviews on such well-known writers as Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Andre Alexis, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Edwidge Danticat, Nalo Hopkinson and Lawrence Hill, among many others, constitutes a frank conversation on the significance of race in the work of contemporary black writers. This book is for anyone looking for a way to talk about the often-taboo topic of race, as it appears in novels, movies and plays. Of interest to black Canadian and African-American readers as well as teachers, librarians and book club members, the book provides a vital snapshot of contemporary culture.
{
208pp,
155x230mm,
October 2003;
PB,
£9.95,
1894663527:9781894663526
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
AFRICVILLE
: The Life & Death of a Canadian Black Community, 3rd Edition
[Donald H Clairmont & Dennis William Magill]
A work of scholarship that details the social injustice that marked both the life and death of Africville -- a Black community that, through civic neglect, had become one of the worst slums in Canada's history. Africville is a sociological account of the relocation that led to devastating consequences for the Black community of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
{
310pp,
150x225mm,
January 1999;
PB,
£14.99,
1551300931:9781551300931
, Canadian Scholars' Press
} |
 |
BLACK LIKE WHO?
: Writing Black Canada, 2nd Edition
[Rinaldo Walcott]
Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, this book caused such an uproar upon its publication in 1997 that Insomniac Press has decided to publish a second revised edition of this perennial best-seller. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music and the electronic media, Walcott's book not only assesses the role of black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness. As erudite on the issue of American super-critic Henry Louis Gates' blindness to black Canadian realities as he is on the rap of the Dream Warriors and Maestro Fresh Wes, Walcott's essays are thought-provoking and always controversial in the best sense of the word. They have added and continue to add immeasurably to public debate.
{
190pp,
155x230mm,
April 2003;
PB,
£9.95,
1894663403:9781894663403
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
BROKEN SHACKLES
: Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom
[Glenelg (John Frost); Edited by Peter Meyler]
In 1889, 'Broken Shackles' was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that documented the journey to Canada from the perspective of a person of African descent. Now, over 112 years later, a new edition of 'Broken Shackles' is available. Henson was a great storyteller and the spark of life shines through as he describes the horrors of slavery and his goal of escaping its tenacious hold. His times as a slave in Maryland, his refuge in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and his ultimate freedom in Canada are vividly depicted through his remembrances. The stories of Henson's family, friends and enemies will both amuse and shock the readers of this book. It is interesting to discover that his observations of life's struggles and triumphs are as relevant today as they were in his time.
{
240pp,
155x230mm,
October 2001;
PB,
£14.99,
1896219578:9781896219578
, Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books)
} |
 |
DEATH IN THE QUEEN CITY
: Clara Ford on Trial, 1895
[Patrick Brode]
A single gunshot on Saturday night, October 6, 1894, shattered Toronto’s prevailing sense of peace and security. That gunshot took the life of Frank Westwood, a respectable young man from one of the city’s most prominent families. This unprecedented attack produced a feeling of hysteria throughout Toronto and baffled the municipal police forces. The mystery was even referred to Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. However, even the Great Detective could not solve the Westwood murder. Finally, a chance rumour led to the most unlikely of suspects -- a young Black woman named Clara Ford. She was a most unusual character, a tough, revolver-toting lady who often wore men’s clothing and defied the norms of late Victorian Toronto. While the police increasingly focused their investigation on her, the motives for the killing remained a puzzle. Was Clara seeking revenge for a previous assault, or was she the frustrated lover of a young white man? The trial of Clara Ford captured Toronto’s attention like no other case before it. The evidence revealed a bizarre story of romance and racism. In addition to the wildly unconventional Clara, the cast of characters featured dogged detectives, and wily lawyers who at times seemed to make this cause célèbre more of a theatrical than a judicial display.
{
182pp,
155x230mm,
June 2005;
PB,
£15.50,
189704500X:9781897045008
, Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books)
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 |
FAMILY SECRETS
: Crossing the Colour Line
[Catherine Slaney; Foreword by Dr Daniel G Hill, III]
Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life. Her great-grandfather was Dr Anderson Abbott, the first Canadian-born Black to graduate from medical school in Toronto in 1861. In this book Catherine Slaney narrates her journey along the trail of her family tree, back through the era of slavery and the plight of fugitive slaves, the Civil War, the Elgin settlement near Chatham, Ontario, and the Chicago years. Why did some of her family identify with the Black Community while others did not? What role did 'passing' play? Personal anecdotes and excerpts from archival Abbott family papers enliven the historical context of this compelling account of a family dealing with an unknown past. A welcome addition to African-Canadian history, this moving and uplifting story demonstrates that understanding one's identity requires first the embracing of the past.
REVIEW: "...a fascinating personal history..." -- Black History 365, Volume Two Issue Two, Autumn 2008.
{
248pp,
155x230mm,
February 2003;
PB,
£15.50,
1896219829:9781896219820
, Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books)
} |
 |
QUEEN'S BUSH SETTLEMENT
: Black Pioneers 1839-1865
[Linda Brown-Kubisch]
The Queen's Bush Settlement of Waterloo/Wellington counties was generally known as a fugitive slave settlement. However, free Blacks from the US and Canadian-born Blacks also lived there. This book provides an overview of the introduction of Blacks into Canada, the early black settlements, the work of Paola Brown, the involvement of missionaries and mission, the AME Church, the BME Church, Fidelia Coburn, Lewis Champion Chambers and other people and events. The emphasis, however, is on the people of the Queen's Bush Settlement. Here the situation was tenuous at best. Many Black residents were prevented from acquiring land by the Crown Land Agents and wealthier white settlers. The author's research continues into establishing these residents' relocation, some of whom returned to the United States, and some of whom migrated to other areas of Ontario. This work will be of great interest to local history enthusiasts and historians interested in Ontario's Black History. Genealogists involved in tracing family connections with the early habitants of the Queen's Bush will find a list of Blacks who lived in that settlement between 1839 and 1865, based on a variety of sources including census, tax, assessment, land, marriage and death records.
{
340pp,
155x230mm,
February 2004;
PB,
£17.50,
1896219853:9781896219851
, Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books)
} |
 |
STOLEN LIFE
: Searching for Richard Pierpoint
[Peter Meyler & David Meyler]
Richard Pierpoint or Captain Dick, as he was commonly known, emerges from the shadows of history in this book. An African warrior who was captured at about age 16, Pierpoint lived his remaining years in exile. From his birth in Bundu (now part of Senegal) around 1744 until his death in rural Ontario in 1837, Pierpoint's life allows us to glimpse the activity of an African involved in some of the world's great events.
{
144pp,
155x230mm,
November 1999;
PB,
£12.99,
1896219551:9781896219554
, Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books)
} |
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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
: Next Stop, Toronto!
[Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper & Karolyn Smardz Frost]
This richly illustrated book examines the urban connection of the clandestine system of secret routes, safe houses and 'conductors'. Not only does it trace the story of the Underground Railroad itself and how people courageously made the trip north to Canada and freedom, but it also explores what happened to them after they arrived. And it does so using never-before-published information on the African-Canadian community of Toronto. Based entirely on new research carried out for the experiential theatre show 'The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Freedom!' at the Royal Ontario Museum, this volume offers new insights into the rich heritage of the Black people who made Toronto their home before the Civil War. It portrays life in the city during the nineteenth century in considerable detail. This exciting new book will be of interest to readers young and old who want to learn more about this unexplored chapter in Toronto's history.
{
104pp,
200x200mm,
November 2002;
PB,
£10.50,
1896219861:9781896219868
, Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books)
} |
 |
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN MINNESOTA
: Telling Our Own Stories
[Nora Murphy & Mary Murphy-Gnatz]
This book features true stories about the lives and times of nine children and adults whose contributions to their state's history span nearly two centuries, from the early 1800s to the present day. These stories include accounts of family life, school days, chores, games and amusements, employment, escapes from slavery, and immigration. The twentieth-century stories include examples of experiences with racial discrimination and interest in civil rights activities, as well as events in the lives of a recent immigrant from Somalia and his family.
{
88pp,
280x215mm,
February 2000;
PB,
£7.99,
0873513800:9780873513807
, Minnesota Historical Society Press
} |
 |
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PENNSYLVANIA
: Above Ground & Underground, An Illustrated Guide
[Charles L Blockson]
Charles L. Blockson, one of the leading authorities on African American history, has compiled one of largest private collections of black history artefacts, photographs, maps, and books, a culmination of forty years of research. This guide, drawn from his vast collection and research, explores sites significant to the African American experience in Pennsylvania and includes maps with highlighted events from each part of the state.
{
320pp,
200x235mm,
October 2001;
HB,
£18.50,
1879441853:9781879441859
, Stackpole Books (RB Books)
} |
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AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE COLONIAL ERA, 2ND EDITION
: From African Origins through the American Revolution
[Donald Wright]
When the first edition of this revolutionary book appeared in 1990, it seemed that the study of African Americans in slavery was out of temporal and geographical balance. Most of the time that slavery existed in the United States was the colonial period. Yet the focus of the study of American slavery -- and indeed of the history of all African Americans before the Civil War -- long had been on the institution as it operated in the Cotton South from about 1830 to 1860. African Americans in the Colonial Era served as an early corrective to that imbalance, and a broad wave of new historical literature on African-American colonial history has since emerged. Carefully revised and greatly expanded in light of that new scholarship, the second edition of this highly popular book also includes new topics such as African-Americans in colonial Louisiana and Spanish Florida. Readers will be taken through the totality of the early African-American experience, with material on west African culture; the Atlantic slave trade; the regional differences under which the institution operated; the rise of race-based prejudice; the role of African-Americans in the American Revolution; and the manifestation and evolution of the African-American family and community, the keystone to the formation of African-American culture.
{
256pp,
140x210mm,
January 2000;
PB,
£12.99,
0882959557:9780882959559
, Harlan Davidson
} |
 |
ALL THE WOMEN ARE WHITE, ALL THE BLACKS ARE MEN, BUT SOME OF US ARE BRAVE
: Black Women's Studies
[Gloria T Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, & Barbara Smith (eds)]
Winner of the Outstanding Women of Colour Award, and the Women Educator's Curriculum Material Award. This ground-breaking collection provides a wealth of materials needed to develop course units on black women, from political theory to literary essays on major writers to work on black women's contributions to the blues. Bibliographies and a collection of syllabi provide readers with essential classroom materials and a map for further research. For course use in: African American studies, feminist thought, lesbian studies, racism and sexism, women's studies.
{
432pp,
150x230mm,
January 1982;
PB,
£15.50,
0912670959:9780912670959
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
BLACK FOREMOTHERS
: Three Lives
[Dorothy Sterling]
Here are three heroic women whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, "every woman, man, and child should know": Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B Wells, the firebrand journalist who led a crusade against lynching; and Mary Church Terrell, a leader in the movement for suffrage, civil rights, and world peace. For course use in: African American studies, civil rights movement, education, legal rights, social movements, women's movements.
{
224pp,
150x250mm,
January 1987;
PB,
£9.99,
0935312897:9780935312898
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
CAP WIGINGTON
: An Architectural Legacy in Ice & Stone
[David Vassar Taylor]
Clarence W (Cap) Wigington was a man of firsts -- the first registered African American architect in Minnesota and the first African American municipal architect in the nation. The public buildings that he designed for the city of St Paul are a continuing legacy, helping to define the city's character. And his achievements, both as an architect and as a leader in the state's African American community, are all the more significant given the limitations of the times in which he lived. Wigington's most ephemeral work may have been his most creative. From 1937 to 1947, he designed six ice palaces and a number of secondary structures for St Paul's famous Winter Carnival. These stunningly fanciful designs are Wigington's most imaginative and exuberant. Alternating chapters by Taylor and Larson examine the man, his times, his leadership in the African American community, and his architectural work. Richly illustrated with photos of Wigington's buildings and his drawings, the book also contains a list of works attributed to Wigington. His life story shows the struggles and the achievements of a talented individual facing and conquering long odds.
{
136pp,
210x235mm,
February 2002;
HB,
£15.50,
0873514157:9780873514156
, Minnesota Historical Society Press
} |
 |
CATHY WILLIAMS
: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier
[Phillip Thomas Tucker]
Few people today, black or white, know about the incredible life of Cathy Williams. From her beginnings as a slave in Independence, Missouri, to her enlistment with Company A, 38th US Infantry, in November 1866, the story of this remarkable woman deserves to finally be told. By disguising herself as a man and assuming the name William Cathay, Williams became a 'buffalo soldier', serving in one of the six black units formed following the Civil War. Her story tells us much about prevailing attitudes toward both race and gender in post-Civil War America.
{
258pp,
155x230mm,
March 2002;
HB,
£16.50,
0811703401:9780811703406
, Stackpole Books
} |
 |
FEEDING THE WOLF
: John B Rayner & the Politics of Race, 1850-1918
[Gregg Cantrell]
This biography of an African-American educator and Populist leader, the son of a politically powerful slaveholder from North Carolina, recounts his experiences as a local Republican officeholder in the 1870s through to organiser for the Texas People's Party in the 1890s, and after.
{
149pp,
140x210mm,
March 2001;
PB,
£9.99,
0882959611:9780882959610
, Harlan Davidson
} |
 |
FIGHTING MEN
: A Chronicle of Three Black Civil War Soldiers
[Zubritsky]
Recreates, through research of historical documents, the lives of 3 soldiers and how the Civil War impacted on their lives.
{
April 1994;
HB,
£14.99,
0828319634:9780828319638
, Branden Publishing
} |
 |
SOUTHERN WOMEN, 2ND EDITION
: Black & White in the Old South
[Sally G McMillen]
McMillen summarises the latest thinking about the lives of women in the South, both white and black, elite and ordinary. One of the best features of the book is the author's ability to weave the lives of all these women together in the same chapters. The excellent introduction is followed by four chapters on Family Life and Marriage, Reproduction and Childrearing, Social Concerns: Education and Religion, and Women at Work. McMillen points out that many myths still surround antebellum Southern women. They were much more complicated people than the women portrayed in many novels and histories. Of course, they cannot be lumped into one group as they differed according to time, region, race, and class, but all were influenced by living in a rural, agricultural, slave society. In this society women were supposed to be submissive and hardworking and devoted to the family and home; each person had a place and women were supposed to know theirs.
{
135x205mm,
September 2001;
PB,
£12.99,
0882959638:9780882959634
, Harlan Davidson
} |
 |
TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, 4TH EDITION
: The Men Who Changed a Nation
[Charles E Francis]
Long before Civil Rights, the Tuskegee Airmen fought for equality. First they integrated the Armed Forces, then a whole nation and did it with competency, skill, valour, and courage in combating the enemy abroad and racism at home. Because they stood tall, African Americans and fellow Americans are the better for it. The book contains over 100 photographs, an appendix full of documents, and an index of 25 pages.
{
496pp,
155x230mm,
November 2002;
PB,
£16.99,
0828320772:9780828320771
/
HB,
£19.99,
0828320292:9780828320290
, Branden Publishing
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AFROCENTRICITY
: The Theory of Social Change
[Molefi Kete Asant]
Discussed in this cross-disciplinary work is the theory of 'Afrocentricity', which mandates that Africans be viewed as subjects rather than objects and is driven by the question: Is it in the best interest of African people? This book looks at how this philosophy, ethos, and worldview gives Africans a better understanding of how to interpret issues affecting their communities. History, psychology, sociology, literature, economics, and education are explored, including discussions on Washingtonianism, Garveyism, Du Bois, Malcolm X, race and identity, Marxism, and breakthrough strategies.
{
148pp,
140x215mm,
September 2003;
PB,
£9.99,
0913543799:9780913543795
, IPG (African American Images)
} |
 |
BLACK MALE IN WHITE AMERICA
[Jacob U Gordon (ed)]
This book explores twelve related research topics, each constituting a chapter. These chapters reflect the magnitude of the problems facing the African-American male. The book also documents the success stories of African American men and how they have lived beyond stereotypes and other odds. These issues are not likely to go away in the 21st century. They require government action and individual initiative toward a civil society in which America's promise can be a reality for all Americans, thus making sure that no single American will be left behind.
{
227pp,
180x260mm,
February 2004;
PB,
£17.50,
1590337573:9781590337578
/
HB,
£31.50,
1590333705:9781590333709
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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BLACK THEOLOGY, BLACK POWER, & BLACK LOVE
[Michael James]
This examination of modern black theology creates a new paradigm known as Integrasegreology, which offers a corrective theory to the polarisation of the ideologies of Malcolm X and Dr Martin Luther King Jr. It also addresses the important social and theological deficiencies in Dr James Cone's original introduction of black theology. Integrasegreology acknowledges the importance of integration and separation theories and espouses the creation of new values, individual and collective vocations, and the definition of Black Power-Black Consciousness and its seven critical aspects. It also argues that black theology should not be an end in itself, but serve the greater purpose of the liberation of oppressed blacks throughout the world.
{
144pp,
September 2000;
PB,
£9.99,
0913543683:9780913543689
, IPG (African American Images)
} |
 |
CAN BLACK MOTHERS RAISE OUR SONS?
[Lawson Bush U]
Can mothers teach their sons how to become men? In recent years that question has been discussed and debated on Black radio, in Black magazines, workshops and conference, and Black households across this nation. Yet, there is little research to inform those who participate in this argumentative discourse. Towards this end, this book examines how Black mothers participate in raising their sons to become Black men. An analysis of the historical, sociological, and biological variables that influence the construct of Black male sex roles is provided. Every parent, guardian, teacher, social worker, coach, spiritual leader, and psychologist must understand the dynamics and potential impact of these variables so that we may effectively raise Black males in the twenty-first century.
{
208pp,
140x215mm,
October 1999;
PB,
£9.99,
0913543640:9780913543641
, IPG (African American Images)
} |
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FROM GHETTO TO COMMUNITY
[Billy Vance]
An in-depth sociological study, this book examines the current state of the black community in America and advances theories for improving its quality of life. Exploring issues that confront black America in its effort to identify and remedy societal ills, it addresses such tough questions as: Do African American children understand and appreciate the struggle of the civil rights movement?; How has it come about that one third of all African American males have experience within the criminal justice system?; and Have black Americans lost their identification with African culture? Other topics covered include the role of cultural institutions in the black community, strategies for empowerment, and relationships between race, culture, and class.
{
146pp,
140x215mm,
May 2001;
PB,
£9.99,
0913543713:9780913543719
, IPG (African American Images)
} |
 |
I KNOW WHO I AM
: A Caribbean Woman's Identity in Canada
[Yvonne Bobb-Smith]
Dr Yvonne Bobb-Smith explores the knowledge and history of resistance of Caribbean women in Canada, using her own journey as a personal place from which to navigate the generalised experience of settlement and adjustment in the Diaspora. I Know Who I Am investigates the stories of 45 Caribbean women of different backgrounds and heritages. Bobb-Smith presents their conceptualisation of the experiences of racism and sexism in their everyday lives and their strategizing resistance. This book is about empowerment in the lives of Caribbean women. This empowerment is seen as an enabling mechanism to resist an 'immigrant woman' identity, imposed through racism and sexism during the period of adjustment in Canada. Bobb-Smith uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine subjectivity, experience, agency, and resistance in the lived experiences of Caribbean women in Canada. She demonstrates that the historical past left a legacy of domination and resistance. She further shows how Caribbean women's activism in community organising constructed an alternative women's movement in Canada. Her voice emerges as a strong contribution to the discourse of identity, and the re-imagining of "home" as an educative institution and process.
{
249pp,
155x230mm,
January 2003;
PB,
£13.99,
0889614148:9780889614147
, Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press)
} |
 |
PROPHETS OF A JUST SOCIETY
[Jake C Miller]
This book was made possible by a grant from the United Negro College and Fellowship Program, and a leave of absence by Bethune-Cookman College. It was written for the purpose of enhancing knowledge of non-violent resistance as a means of resolving social conflicts. Specifically, the book analyses the contributions of Mohandas K Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Albert J Luthuli and Desmond M Tutu to the non-violent effort. The book is dedicated both to those who have sacrificed to advance the cause of peace through non-violent resistance, and those who continue to advocate its use.
{
258pp,
155x230mm,
September 2001;
HB,
£39.50,
1590330684:9781590330685
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
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SOLUTIONS FOR BLACK AMERICA
[Jawanza Kunjufu]
Contending that the media and the black community allocate too much of their efforts to talking about the problems afflicting the African American community, this book attempts to reverse that trend by offering solutions in many areas, including education, family, health, economics, politics, organising, and Afrocentricity. Concerned that one-third of black America and one-half of its children live below the poverty line, activist and educator Jawanza Kunjufu expresses his concern about whether affirmative action and integration have really helped this population. Many diverse schools of thought are expressed, from the differences between Ward Connerly and Jesse Jackson and between US Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas and Al Sharpton. Also addressed is what percentage of the problem and their solutions lie with the effects of slavery and what portion should be addressed by self-responsibility.
{
207pp,
155x230mm,
April 2004;
PB,
£10.99,
0913543985:9780913543986
, IPG (African American Images)
} |
 |
CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY BLACK WOMEN
[Michael Porter]
It has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern advances remain subject to a debilitating discrimination in many areas of life. This book presents a fresh perspective on the many facets of sexism experienced by African American women, addressing such issues as wage disparity, spousal abuse, and the rising rate of AIDS among black women. It also examines the roots of sexism among African American males, including the effect of gangster rap music on perceptions of black women, and offers strategies for change.
{
148pp,
140x215mm,
May 2001;
PB,
£9.99,
0913543721:9780913543726
, IPG (African American Images)
} |
 |
STATE OF EMERGENCY
: We Must Save African American Males
[Jawanza Kunjufu]
This critical analysis looks at the dire state of African American males and the tough challenges they face daily. Providing a holistic look at the educational, penal, and drug industries, this book condemns the institutions and standards that have declared war on black men. Why is there such a disparity between punishments for crack and cocaine? Why is 91 percent of the African American prison population illiterate? What are the effects of rampant racial profiling? Hope is provided with a discussion of institutions that have successfully developed African American men.
{
202pp,
145x225mm,
October 2001;
HB,
£15.99,
091354373X:9780913543733
, IPG (African American Images)
} |
 |
WHO DA MAN
: Black Masculinities & Sporting Cultures
[Gamal Abdel-Shehid]
This book offers a highly original approach to Black masculinities and sport in Canada. The book will be especially exciting for those interested in decolonisation, culture, and the intersection of identity, sport, and politics. 'Who Da Man' attempts to account for the ways that Black Diasporic identifications intersect with the dominant misogyny and homophobia in contemporary men's sporting cultures. Abdel-Shehid suggests that thinking about Diaspora in the making of contemporary Black sporting cultures provides a more comprehensive framework than that which looks at sport solely within the framework of nations and nationalism. He further argues that Canadian hegemonic ideas and practices typically marginalise blackness and Black peoples. Thus, the author suggests, Black masculinities in sport are often connected to Diasporic locations. These connections can be either empowering or disempowering, requiring careful analysis to achieve full understanding of how things are being perceived, projected, and therefore implemented. 'Who Da Man' offers a feminist and queer reading of Black masculinity, and suggests that thinking about Black sporting masculinities means paying attention to the ways that these larger discourses of racism, exclusion, and Diaspora shape Black masculinities. Moreover, the book asks to what extent homophobia and misogyny within men's sporting cultures influence contemporary understandings of Black masculinity.
REVIEW: "Gamal Abdel-Shehid's book will change not merely our understanding of how racism, exclusion, and Diaspora shape Black masculinities in sport; Who Da Man opens up the field of Sport Sociology to literatures of decolonisation, Diaspora, queer, and cultural studies. It will not be possible to think about the study of sport in the same way again..." -- Dr Debra Shogan, University of Alberta.
{
200pp,
May 2005;
PB,
£12.99,
1551302616:9781551302614
, Canadian Scholars' Press
} |
 |
BLACK STUDENTS -- MIDDLE CLASS TEACHERS
[Jawanza Kunjufu]
This compelling look at the relationship between the majority of African American students and their teachers provides answers and solutions to the hard-hitting questions facing education in today's black and mixed-race communities. Are teachers prepared by their college education departments to teach African American children? Are schools designed for middle-class children and, if so, what are the implications for the 50 percent of African Americans who live below the poverty line? Is the major issue between teachers and students class or racial difference? Why do some of the lowest test scores come from classrooms where black educators are teaching black students? How can parents negotiate with schools to prevent having their children placed in special education programs? Also included are teaching techniques and a list of exemplary schools that are successfully educating African Americans.
{
164pp,
140x215mm,
September 2002;
PB,
£10.99,
0913543810:9780913543818
, IPG (African American Images)
} |
 |
END OF DESEGREGATION?
[Stephen J Caldas & Carl L Bankston III (eds)]
After over half a century of court-directed efforts to redress the historical educational chasm between blacks and whites in the United States, both the past achievements and the future direction of school desegregation are uncertain. Too often, the early gains made in racially desegregating America's schools seem to have been halted, and in many cases reversed. Urban school decay is once again on the rise, with predictable consequences. For the very poorest minority students, who have limited educational options apart from dangerous, deteriorating neighbourhood schools, drop-out rates are high, standardised test scores are abysmally low, and violence is an everyday fact of life. The gulf between the unskilled, marginalised students being warehoused in these predominantly poor, minority schools on the one hand, and the increasingly high tech society they cannot compete in on the other, is growing. This ground-breaking book presents the viewpoints and research of some of the most prominent scholars in the field of school desegregation. It covers virtually the entire spectrum of thinking and scholarship on school desegregation and its promise, success, necessity, pitfalls and failures.
{
200pp,
180x260mm,
September 2003;
HB,
£45.99,
159033728X:9781590337288
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO
[Carter Woodson]
Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and training, and which of these African Americans are receiving. Woodson provides solutions to these challenges, but these require more study, discipline, and an Afrocentric worldview. This new edition contains a biographical profile of the author, a new introduction, and study questions.
{
240pp,
September 2000;
PB,
£8.99,
0913543705:9780913543702
, IPG (African American Images)
} |
 |
WOMEN OF COLOR & THE MULTICULTURAL CURRICULUM
: Transforming the College Classroom (with a Segment on Puerto Rican Studies)
[Liza Fiol-Matta (ed)]
This volume provides a guide to multicultural curricular change especially with the respect to women of colour. Section One highlights the actual process of faculty transformation as it occurred at UCLA and George Washington University during curriculum projects. Section two contain 37 transformed undergraduate syllabi, with brief essays describing professors' encounters with the new texts. Section Three is an interdisciplinary guide to teaching about Puerto Rican women inside and outside Puerto Rico.
{
390pp,
155x225mm,
September 1994;
PB,
£12.99,
1558610839:9781558610835
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
CHILDREN OF THE MOVEMENT
: The Sons & Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, & Others Reveal How the Civil Rights Movement Tested & Transformed Thei
[John Blake]
Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognisable figures in the civil rights movement, this book collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to change America. The whole range of players is covered, from the children of leading figures like Martin Luther King Jr and martyrs like James Earl Chaney to segregationists like George Wallace and Black Panther leaders like Elaine Brown. The essays reveal that some children are more pessimistic than their parents, whose idealism they saw destroyed by the struggle, while others are still trying to change the world. Included are such inspiring stories as the daughter of a notoriously racist Southern governor who finds her calling as a teacher in an all-black inner-city school and the daughter of a famous martyr who unexpectedly meets her mother's killer. From the first activists killed by racist Southerners to the current global justice protestors carrying on the work of their parents, these profiles offer a look behind the public face of the triumphant civil rights movement and show the individual lives it changed in surprising ways.
REVIEW: "A revealing look at how the movement affected the personal lives of activists and the legacy inherited by their children." -- Booklist. "A highly original, insightful and sometimes emotionally riveting book." -- Atlanta Journal Constitution. "A fresh approach to chronicling the historic struggle...powerful." -- The Atlanta Tribune
{
260pp,
155x230mm,
June 2004;
HB,
£16.99,
1556525370:9781556525377
, IPG (Lawrence Hill Books)
} |
 |
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
: Selected Speeches & Writings
[Philip Foner (ed)]
One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglas spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life -- from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to black nationalism. Philip Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds of speeches, letters, articles, and editorials into an impressive five-volume set, now long out of print. Abridged, adapted, and supplemented with several important texts that Foner did not include, this book presents the most significant, insightful, and elegant short works of Douglass's massive oeuvre.
{
790pp,
155x230mm,
September 1999;
PB,
£21.99,
1556523521:9781556523526
/
HB,
£26.99,
1556523491:9781556523496
, IPG (Lawrence Hill Books)
} |
 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CD
: We Shall Overcome
Martin Luther King Jr embraced Gandhi's principles of non-violent resistance and civil disobedience and applied them to challenge the unjust, discriminatory practices employed by a predominantly white society against black people. These principles guided him as he articulated with a persuasive, spellbinding, emotional intensity the injustices and indignities practised against his race and against the other coloured peoples of the world. In 1964 Dr King won the coveted Nobel Peace Prize and accepted the prize in Oslo, Norway. Here in this second volume of highlights of major MLK speeches, we find Mr King delivering a major speech, recorded in 1966, highlighted by 'The American Dream' and 'We Shall Overcome'. Two years later he would be shot by an assassin while standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Approximate running time: 46 minutes.
{
January 2002;
CD,
£10.99,
1885959419:9781885959416
, Soundworks Inc
} |
 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR -- I HAVE A DREAM DVD
Features highlights of major speeches given by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Speeches included are: Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC (28 August 1963); Brown Chapel, Selma, Alabama (8 March 1965); Final Speech, day before Dr King's Assassination (3 April 1968); Robert F Kennedy Eulogy (4 Paril 1968).
{
January 2005;
DV,
£13.50,
1885959362:9781885959362
, Soundworks Inc
} |
 |
MLK CD
: The Martin Luther King Jr Tapes
This historical compilation features highlights of the live recordings of The Great March To Freedom, The Great March To Washington and the immortal Free At Last speech. Plus, a poignant eulogy by Robert F. Kennedy. Approximate running time: 70 minutes.
{
June 1994;
CD,
£10.99,
1885959044:9781885959041
, Soundworks Inc
} |
 |
BLACK & WHITE SAT DOWN TOGETHER
: The Reminiscence of an NAACP Founder
[Mary White Ovington]
In 1909, Ovington, W E B Du Bois, and 50 others founded the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) with the goal of ending racial discrimination and segregation and achieving full civil and legal rights for black Americans. This modest, intelligent memoir describes her life, the politics of her era, the prejudice that civil rights workers faced, and what drew her to the struggle.
{
168pp,
145x225mm,
June 1996;
PB,
£7.50,
1558611568:9781558611566
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
CORETTA SCOTT KING
: Fighter for Justice
[Ruth Turk]
This is the fascinating story of the woman who dedicated her life to supporting her husband in his valiant struggle for racial equality. With compelling insight, the author traces the development of a sensitive young girl intent on a musical career into the strong and selfless individual who plays a major role in the history of the civil rights movement. Ruth Turk takes the reader behind the scenes, revealing the trials and tribulations of her subject in an unbiased, fast moving style which is factual and convincing. The book never becomes overwhelming, but is liberally sprinkled with important names, events, and places that cover the decades from the 1920s to the present. The result is a memorable portrait of a woman and a vital part of history which is still part of the American scene. The reader will finish this book with an acute awareness of one who must be remembered, just not in the shadow of her husband, but as a meaningful person in her own right. No history of the civil rights movement can be complete without this fitting tribute to the woman who kept the Dream alive at considerable expense to her own secret dreams. This is a biography you will want to read more than once.
{
108pp,
150x225mm,
June 1997;
PB,
£7.99,
0828320284:9780828320283
, Branden Publishing
} |
 |
FREDRICK L MCGHEE
: A Life on the Color Line, 1861-1912
[Paul D Nelson]
Distinguished by his hawk-like gaze and shock of silver hair, his forceful oratory and fierce advocacy, Fredrick L McGhee was Minnesota's first African American attorney and an intelligent, tireless civil rights organiser. He moved onto the national stage when he helped found the Niagara Movement. Despite McGhee's crucial role in early civil rights organising, until now there has been no serious study of his life and work. Nelson has meticulously reconstructed McGhee's life -- from his birth into slavery during the Civil War, through his education and early career as a lawyer, to his eventual insight into the power the courts held as a force for political and social change. The succession of incremental advances and devastating setbacks in McGhee's remarkable and accomplished life deserve to be remembered alongside the victories won by the civil rights leaders he influenced and whose breakthroughs he made possible. Nelson's biography illuminates one of the darkest periods in American history and recognises the role of one man who helped lead his people into the light.
{
236pp,
155x230mm,
February 2002;
HB,
£19.99,
0873514254:9780873514255
, Minnesota Historical Society Press
} |
 |
FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA
: A Memoir
[Endesha Ida Mae]
After being raped by her employer's husband at the age of eleven, Ida Mae Holland (also known as 'Cat'), became a rebel, getting expelled from high school, turning to prostitution, serving jail time for shoplifting and assault. But when she stumbled across the civil rights movement, the troublemaker found herself developing into a leader -- on the front lines of marches and protects, facing police dogs and water hoses, being beaten and jailed again and again, all in a struggle for freedom. The dream soon turned into a nightmare, however, as Cat's family suffered the cruellest retribution at the hands of white bigots that she could ever have imagined.
{
318pp,
155x235mm,
August 1999;
PB,
£10.99,
1556523416:9781556523410
, IPG (Lawrence Hill Books)
} |
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LYNCHINGS IN DULUTH
[Michael Fedo]
On the evening of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, three young black men, accused of the rape of a white woman, were pulled from their jail cells and lynched by a mob numbering in the thousands. Michael Fedo, a former journalist, tells the story in a clear, sober manner, weaving a skilful narrative. Using newspaper accounts, court records, state files, and interviews with ageing and often reluctant witnesses, he recounts the small but telling stories of individual participants and observers -- both blacks and whites -- in a manner that casts them as ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary moments of violence and hatred. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the lynching of black men was typically a rural, southern phenomenon. This account of the Duluth lynchings shows that the mentality necessary for such events was not particular to any region.
{
208pp,
155x225mm,
May 2000;
PB,
£9.99,
087351386X:9780873513869
, Minnesota Historical Society Press
} |
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RACISM
: A Bibliography with Indexes
[Albert J Wheeler]
Of all mankinds' vices, racism is one of the most pervasive and stubborn. Success in overcoming racism has been achieved from time to time, but victories have been limited thus far because mankind has focused on personal economic gain or power grabs ignoring generosity of the soul. This bibliography brings together the literature providing access by subject groupings as well as author and subject indexes.
{
319pp,
175x255mm,
December 2000;
HB,
£39.50,
1560728566:9781560728566
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
FREEDOM'S JOURNEY
: African American Voices of the Civil War
[Donald Yacovone (ed)]
The men and women represented in this book had the extraordinary opportunity of witnessing the end of a 200-year struggle for freedom: the Civil War. Gathered here are the stirring testimonies of many African Americans including slaves who endured their last years of servitude before escaping from their masters, soldiers who fought for the freedom of their brethren and for equal rights, and reporters who covered the defeat of their oppressors. These African American voices include the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass on the meaning of the war; Martin R Delany on his meeting with Lincoln to gain permission to raise an army of African Americans; Susie King Taylor on her life as laundress and nurse to a Union regiment in the deep South; Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Todd Lincoln's seamstress, on Abraham Lincoln's journey to Richmond after its fall; Elijah P Marrs on rising from slave to Union sergeant while fighting for his freedom in Kentucky; letters from black soldiers to black newspapers; and much more. Each testimony is presented unabridged, allowing the full flavour of these voices to be heard, and each is supplemented with introductions and notes that provide rich context.
REVIEW: "The editors have done an exceptional job... highly recommended to school and public collections..." -- Kliatt. "Yet another outstanding anthology from Lawrence Hill Books in its Library of Black America series...." -- Dallas Morning News. "Gives voice to soldiers, slaves, journalists, and abolitionists, providing the under-explored perspective of Blacks who lived through the Civil War..." -- The Crisis. "An excellent compilation..." -- Booklist. "Great find of the month..." -- Detroit Free Press.
{
568pp,
155x230mm,
February 2004;
PB,
£14.99,
1556525214:9781556525216
/
HB,
£26.99,
1556525117:9781556525117
, IPG (Lawrence Hill Books)
} |
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HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
: in Chester & the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania
[R C Smedley; Introduction by Christopher Densmore]
Originally published in 1883 and long out of print, this remarkable volume examines the Underground Railroad as it operated in south-eastern Pennsylvania. Based on interviews with those directly involved in the escaped slave network, it tells the stories of freedom seekers, those who helped them, and the places they hid. A new introduction by Christopher Densmore places the book in its historical context and assesses the work in light of more recent scholarship.
{
407pp,
110x180mm,
March 2005;
PB,
£9.50,
0811731898:9780811731898
, Stackpole Books
} |
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I WAS BORN A SLAVE, VOLUME 1
: 1772-1849
[Yuval Taylor]
I Was Born a Slave collects the twenty most significant slave narratives and arranges them chronologically in two volumes to form a mini-library of essential black writing. The narratives in this volume include tales of Africa, pirate ships, wild animals, and witches; a slave who had ten owners, and another who led a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites; the kidnapping of a white woman and her rescue by a slave; the nightmarish tortures of the infamous Mr Gooch; the tragicomic experiences of a pair of 'white slaves'; and a story of the 'original Uncle Tom'.
{
764pp,
155x230mm,
May 1999;
PB,
£21.99,
1556523319:9781556523311
/
HB,
£23.50,
1556523343:9781556523342
, IPG (Chicago Review Press)
} |
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I WAS BORN A SLAVE, VOLUME 2
: 1849-1866
[Yuval Taylor]
This volume includes astonishing tales of heroic slaves. One, born free, was kidnapped and enslaved for twelve years; one was experimented upon by a doctor to see how deep his black skin went; one disguised herself as a male slave-owner; one hid herself from a lustful master in a crawlspace for seven years; one delighted in playing cruel practical jokes; one went whaling to avoid being recaptured; and one led an armed posse to battle would be kidnappers.
{
796pp,
155x230mm,
May 1999;
PB,
£16.99,
1556523327:9781556523328
/
HB,
£23.50,
1556523351:9781556523359
, IPG (Chicago Review Press)
} |
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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN PENNSYLVANIA
[Wiliam J Switala]
Organised in antebellum America to help slaves escape to freedom, the Underground Railroad was cloaked in secrecy and operated at great peril to everyone involved. The system was extremely active in Pennsylvania, with routes in all parts of the state. This book retraces those routes, discusses the large city networks, identifies the houses and sites where escapees found refuge, and records the names of the people who risked their lives to support the operation. Includes detailed maps of the known routes and railroad sites.
{
216pp,
155x230mm,
April 2001;
PB,
£12.50,
0811716295:9780811716291
, Stackpole Books
} |
