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Our Nig
ISBN: 9781495416545 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "They discussed the expediency of a speedy departure. Seth would first seek employment, and then return for Mag. They would take with them what they could carry, and leave the rest with Pete Greene, and come for them when they were wanted. They were long in arranging affairs satisfactorily, and were not a little startled at the close of their conference to find Frado missing. They thought approaching night would bring her. Twilight passed into darkness, and she did not come. They thought she had understood their plans, and had, perhaps, permanently withdrawn. They could not rest without...
"They discussed the expediency of a speedy departure. Seth would first seek employment, and then return for Mag. They would take with them what they c...
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34,73 |
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Climbing the Colored Side: A Gifted Colored Child's Struggles to Understand Science in the Superstitious and Segregated South of the 1940's
ISBN: 9781496071606 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aldene "Al" Chambles grew up during the 1940s in the segregated South. His experience as a gifted child struggling to understand the world in the face of prejudice, superstition, and fear is poignantly depicted in his powerful novel "Climbing the Colored Side." The story takes place in the African American community of High Hope, established by former tenant farmers and sharecroppers seeking control over their lives. It's a difficult life, but when young Dean Johnson begins asking questions that no one knows the answers to, new tensions arise. This book explores a dimension of the... Aldene "Al" Chambles grew up during the 1940s in the segregated South. His experience as a gifted child struggling to understand the world in the ... |
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82,70 |
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Death at Tammany Hall
ISBN: 9780758286468 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York City, 1894. The Democratic Party headquarters at Tammany Hall is a hotbed of cronyism, corruption, and intimidation. Private investigator Pamela Thompson's close colleague at Jeremiah Prescott's law firm, former NYPD detective Harry Miller, has had his own career tainted by scandal. Seven years ago, while investigating a case connected to Tammany Hall, he was falsely accused and wrongfully convicted of extortion.
Miller's conviction continues to cast its long shadow into his current life, so he seeks Pamela's help in exonerating him. The key to uncovering the truth lies with the... New York City, 1894. The Democratic Party headquarters at Tammany Hall is a hotbed of cronyism, corruption, and intimidation. Private investigator Pam...
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71,06 |
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I Am Just Jes
ISBN: 9781604148114 / Angielski / Twarda / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slavers took him from his African home when he was just four years old. He and a group of adults were loaded onto a ship and herded into the hold. The frightened people had no idea they would all be sold as slaves when the ship arrived at its Caribbean destination. There was no ventilation and nowhere to dispose of human waste for those trapped in the hold. Because he was the only child the slavers collected in this sweep, the captain began to feel sorry for him. Eventually he moved the boy to the deck, where he could at least get away from the crowd and the horrific smell. During his time on...
Slavers took him from his African home when he was just four years old. He and a group of adults were loaded onto a ship and herded into the hold. The...
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70,75 |
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My Americas Roots
ISBN: 9781499050516 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,29 |
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Incidents In The Life of A Girl: The Unattainable Mulatto
ISBN: 9781501048616 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Charlotte Press 2014 Revisionist Writer Award and a 2014 Pitch Perfect Pick from Underground Book Reviews. Constantly begged for her submission by a master "who asks for what he could take," a lesbian mulatto slave desperately leaps further down the rabbit hole of her awakening womanhood. Dare she, by books end, totally turn the tables? Linda blossoms into womanhood in the hypocritical town of Asheville, North Carolina in the 1850's under her master's lustful eye and her grandmother's loving care. Infatuated by her fair skin and the enduring beautiful black features of her...
Winner of the Charlotte Press 2014 Revisionist Writer Award and a 2014 Pitch Perfect Pick from Underground Book Reviews. Constantly begged for her sub...
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62,18 |
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What Many Men Desire
ISBN: 9780692256848 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Audrey Simmons-part African-American, part white, part Cherokee-is young, talented, and unusually attractive. She's determined to make her name in the fashion world. But it's 1936-if she's to have any chance at success, she must "pass" for white in her work life. Ignoring the possible dangers, and despite her straight-laced upbringing, Audrey accepts the offer of a "gentleman" to be his assistant on a trip to England, First Class, aboard the new ocean liner, the Queen Mary. For her, it's an irresistible chance to get to the heart of fashion-London and Paris. But her eyes are opened on this...
Audrey Simmons-part African-American, part white, part Cherokee-is young, talented, and unusually attractive. She's determined to make her name in the...
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61,97 |
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Incidents In The Life of a Girl: The Unattainable Mulatto
ISBN: 9781500737573 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charlotte Press 2014 Revisionist Writer Award and a 2014 Pitch Perfect Pick from Underground Book Reviews. Revisionist Lamont Tanksley Sr. introduces his debut novel. Revised from Harriet Jacobs' original 1861 book, 'Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl', Tanksley creates a substantially differing tale. When inherited by an owner "who asks for what he could take," a young lesbian mulatto slave battles wits with her master and his jealous wife to maintain her sanity, dignity, and virginity. While seeking her freedom and running from trouble, she stumbles upon herself. In desperation, Linda...
Charlotte Press 2014 Revisionist Writer Award and a 2014 Pitch Perfect Pick from Underground Book Reviews. Revisionist Lamont Tanksley Sr. introduces ...
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62,18 |
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Mama Lacee
ISBN: 9781502330659 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's the Twenties, Mama Lacee is in her 80's, she's been the local healer longer than most people have been alive, she's seen it all...good and bad.
It's the Twenties, Mama Lacee is in her 80's, she's been the local healer longer than most people have been alive, she's seen it all...good and bad.
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41,45 |
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Just Imagine..A World Without the Contributions of Black People
ISBN: 9781499068535 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What a fun way to learn and remember some of America's forgotten African American history as told in an easy to read storytelling format. Marvin and Faja are in pursuit to learn more about African American history while experiencing what life would be like if there were no Black people in the world.
What a fun way to learn and remember some of America's forgotten African American history as told in an easy to read storytelling format. Marvin and F...
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91,16 |
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Wilhelmina: An Imagined Memoir
ISBN: 9780692227954 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,71 |
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The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition
ISBN: 9780300184624 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washington, who, along with eighteen others, took control of the slave ship Creole in November 1841 and sailed it to Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas, where they could live free. This new critical edition, ideal for classroom use, includes the full text of Douglass's fictional recounting of the most successful slave revolt in...
First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social...
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53,39 |
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The Chit'lin Coast: A Tale of Growing Up Black and Female in Mid-Twentieth Century Chicago
ISBN: 9781502307910 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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31,09 |
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Angels Make Their Hope Here
ISBN: 9780316254014 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russell's Knob is not paradise. But already in 1849 this New Jersey highlands settlement is home to a diverse population of blacks, whites, and reds who have intermarried and lived in relative harmony for generations. It is a haven for Dossie Bird, who has escaped north along the Underground Railroad and now feels the embrace of the Smoot family.
Duncan Smoot presides as accidental patriarch, protector of his enterprising sister, Hattie, and his two rambunctious nephews. As Dossie busies herself with cleaning, cooking, and tending the chickens at Duncan's homestead, she wonders: Could... Russell's Knob is not paradise. But already in 1849 this New Jersey highlands settlement is home to a diverse population of blacks, whites, and reds w...
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86,81 |
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The Hidden Hills Saga: Book I: Ice Whispers
ISBN: 9781502953797 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slavery of a different kind, beyond physical chains, leads to a different type of escape . . . Marissa Kristofferson can taste freedom. Her long years of suffering at the hands of her sadistic husband, Lance, are coming to an end as he lies dying. But she is stunned when he reveals the contents of his will and what she must do to keep Kristofferson Plantation, and how he plans to keep her bound to him even beyond the grave. The beautiful slave Lolley has always envied Marissa's life, and after learning that the master has also ordered her freed after his death, she is determined to reach for...
Slavery of a different kind, beyond physical chains, leads to a different type of escape . . . Marissa Kristofferson can taste freedom. Her long years...
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53,84 |
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Breed
ISBN: 9781478733645 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,70 |
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The Regal Episodes
ISBN: 9781500976064 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ralph was in awe of his father for his traditional leadership and the pomp and the pageantry that was part and parcel of the package of Chieftaincy. He lives a semi-royal life as the townspeople doted on him for being one of the chief's sons. But the package also included other elements of a traditional leader of the town - the fetish priests, the shines and lesser gods. Ralph was in awe of his mother, the Christian woman whose father was blinded in one eye by a falling mortar as he volunteered his masonry services in the construction of a church. Ralph's parents married long before his...
Ralph was in awe of his father for his traditional leadership and the pomp and the pageantry that was part and parcel of the package of Chieftaincy. H...
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57,99 |
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The Secret Life of Lucy Bosman
ISBN: 9781505482751 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's Gone With the Wind meets Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl. Lucy Bosman is a shrewd business woman in a day and time not too amenable to the dreams and desires of women - especially colored women. The widow of an ex-slave and well-educated, the mulatto woman had great plans to start over and make a life for herself when she left her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee and headed further South in the spring of 1860. Two years later, Lucy is planted firmly in Richmond, Virginia, running a successful business while passing as a white woman and avoiding the personal attentions and promises...
It's Gone With the Wind meets Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl. Lucy Bosman is a shrewd business woman in a day and time not too amenable to the d...
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43,52 |
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Mississippi Jangle: Pecans in Washtubs (Book 2)
ISBN: 9781505977424 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murder has hit the small Mississippi town again, turning it from a town of odyssey to a town of turmoil. This time, no one has a clue who is doing the killings, but the old women are not willing to let their town go without a fight. Join Heattie and Luceen again as they take on yet another life changing event. As they encounter growing pains, they also encounter life on another level. There is more Jangle going on in the small Mississippi town.
Murder has hit the small Mississippi town again, turning it from a town of odyssey to a town of turmoil. This time, no one has a clue who is doing the...
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41,33 |
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Human Cattle
ISBN: 9780988786790 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human Cattle is a powerful saga of three generations of slave women. Set in 1857 by Liberty Dendron, Human Cattle digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the South full circle-from concealment to recovery. A powerful masterwork of passion and scholarship. A stunning literary achievement that brilliantly illuminates one of the most extraordinary events in the long, dark history of slavery in America. Human Cattle forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American white supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about slavery's; slavery also created a...
Human Cattle is a powerful saga of three generations of slave women. Set in 1857 by Liberty Dendron, Human Cattle digs deep to bring the story of slav...
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78,72 |
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