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SoBrief

Slavery

Shackles, auction blocks, and the long road to freedom form the backdrop of these powerful works, which trace the brutal realities and quiet resistances of enslaved people across history. From intimate personal journeys to sweeping generational sagas, these books reckon honestly with one of humanity's darkest institutions and its enduring legacy.

Slavery Kirjayhteenvedot

The Moor's Account
kirjoittanut Laila Lalami
A Moroccan slave on a doomed Spanish expedition to Florida survives to write the erased history.
4.04
13 000+
📜 Counter-History📖 Fictional Memoir⚖️ Colonial Reckoning🌿 Indigenous Healing💍 Intercultural Marriage
The Moor's Account Yhteenveto
Immersiiviset
The Moor's Account
A Moroccan slave on a doomed Spanish expedition to Florida survives to write the erased history.
kirjoittanut Laila Lalami 2014 321 sivua
4.04
13 000+ arvostelua
📜 Counter-History📖 Fictional Memoir⚖️ Colonial Reckoning🌿 Indigenous Healing💍 Intercultural Marriage
Kotiinpaluu
kirjoittanut Yaa Gyasi • 2016
Two half-sisters: a governor's bride above, a captive below. Their lines diverge for centuries.
4.47
400 000+
🏛️ Generational Saga⛓️ Colonial Legacy🌍 Diaspora Identity🩸 Inherited Trauma🪔 Jim Crow South
Kotiinpaluu Yhteenveto
Kotiinpaluu
Two half-sisters: a governor's bride above, a captive below. Their lines diverge for centuries.
kirjoittanut Yaa Gyasi 2016 305 sivua
4.47
400 000+ arvostelua
🏛️ Generational Saga⛓️ Colonial Legacy🌍 Diaspora Identity🩸 Inherited Trauma🪔 Jim Crow South
Dead Wake
kirjoittanut Erik Larson • 2015
Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.
4.13
100 000+
🧠 Intellectual History🔗 Systemic Racism✊ Antiracism💭 Racial Ideology⚡ Race And Power
Dead Wake Yhteenveto
Dead Wake
Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.
kirjoittanut Erik Larson 2015 430 sivua
4.13
100 000+ arvostelua
🧠 Intellectual History🔗 Systemic Racism✊ Antiracism💭 Racial Ideology⚡ Race And Power
The Grift
kirjoittanut Clay Cane • 2024
From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.
4.32
500+
🏛️ African American History🐘 Black Conservatism💰 Political Opportunism🗳️ Voting Rights📜 Reconstruction Era
The Grift Yhteenveto
The Grift
From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.
kirjoittanut Clay Cane 2024 400 sivua
4.32
500+ arvostelua
🏛️ African American History🐘 Black Conservatism💰 Political Opportunism🗳️ Voting Rights📜 Reconstruction Era
March
kirjoittanut Geraldine Brooks • 2005
The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.
3.82
79 000+
🔥 Civil War Fiction✊ Abolitionist Fiction📖 Reimagined Classic🌟 Idealistic Protagonist💔 Marriage Under Strain
March Yhteenveto
March
The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.
kirjoittanut Geraldine Brooks 2005 280 sivua
3.82
79 000+ arvostelua
🔥 Civil War Fiction✊ Abolitionist Fiction📖 Reimagined Classic🌟 Idealistic Protagonist💔 Marriage Under Strain
Four Hundred Souls
kirjoittanut Ibram X. Kendi • 2021
Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.
4.55
11 000+
🖤 African American History⛓️ Transatlantic Slave Trade🔍 Systemic Racism✊ Black Resistance📖 Revisionist History
Four Hundred Souls Yhteenveto
Four Hundred Souls
Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.
kirjoittanut Ibram X. Kendi 2021 504 sivua
4.55
11 000+ arvostelua
🖤 African American History⛓️ Transatlantic Slave Trade🔍 Systemic Racism✊ Black Resistance📖 Revisionist History
Benito Cereno
kirjoittanut Herman Melville • 2006
An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.
3.53
10 000+
🛳️ Maritime Gothic⛓️ Slave Revolt👁️ Unreliable Narrator🔗 Captor Captive Bond🌫️ Creeping Dread
Benito Cereno Yhteenveto
Benito Cereno
An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.
kirjoittanut Herman Melville 2006 160 sivua
3.53
10 000+ arvostelua
🛳️ Maritime Gothic⛓️ Slave Revolt👁️ Unreliable Narrator🔗 Captor Captive Bond🌫️ Creeping Dread
The Autistic Brain
kirjoittanut Temple Grandin • 2013
A free Black man is sold into slavery; a single smuggled letter holds his escape.
4.1
11 000+
🔗 American Slavery📜 Slave Narratives⛓ Kidnapping And Captivity🏚️ Plantation Life🛡️ Survival And Resistance
The Autistic Brain Yhteenveto
The Autistic Brain
A free Black man is sold into slavery; a single smuggled letter holds his escape.
kirjoittanut Temple Grandin 2013 240 sivua
4.1
11 000+ arvostelua
🔗 American Slavery📜 Slave Narratives⛓ Kidnapping And Captivity🏚️ Plantation Life🛡️ Survival And Resistance
Amity
kirjoittanut Nathan Harris • 2025
To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.
3.76
5 000+
🕊️ Post-Emancipation💔 Separated Siblings🏜️ Survival Journey🏘️ Freedom Settlement🏚️ Post-Civil War South
Amity Yhteenveto
Amity
To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.
kirjoittanut Nathan Harris 2025 320 sivua
3.76
5 000+ arvostelua
🕊️ Post-Emancipation💔 Separated Siblings🏜️ Survival Journey🏘️ Freedom Settlement🏚️ Post-Civil War South
Master Slave Husband Wife
kirjoittanut Ilyon Woo • 2023
Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.
3.97
18 000+
🏃 Slave Escapes⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Movement🎭 Racial Passing⚖️ Fugitive Slave Law🏛️ Antebellum America
Master Slave Husband Wife Yhteenveto
Master Slave Husband Wife
Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.
kirjoittanut Ilyon Woo 2023 416 sivua
3.97
18 000+ arvostelua
🏃 Slave Escapes⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Movement🎭 Racial Passing⚖️ Fugitive Slave Law🏛️ Antebellum America
Grant
kirjoittanut Ron Chernow • 2017
Failed farmer, rumored drunk. How Ulysses Grant won the Civil War and fought the Klan as president.
4.50
44 000+
📖 Civil War History🏛️ Presidential Biography📜 Military Strategy🔄 Revisionist History🔗 Emancipation
Grant Yhteenveto
Grant
Failed farmer, rumored drunk. How Ulysses Grant won the Civil War and fought the Klan as president.
kirjoittanut Ron Chernow 2017 1104 sivua
4.50
44 000+ arvostelua
📖 Civil War History🏛️ Presidential Biography📜 Military Strategy🔄 Revisionist History🔗 Emancipation
The Christian Imagination
kirjoittanut Willie James Jennings • 2010
The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.
4.51
500+
✝️ Race And Theology🧭 Colonial Displacement⛪ Supersessionism📚 Biblical Translation🏞️ Land And Identity
The Christian Imagination Yhteenveto
The Christian Imagination
The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.
kirjoittanut Willie James Jennings 2010 384 sivua
4.51
500+ arvostelua
✝️ Race And Theology🧭 Colonial Displacement⛪ Supersessionism📚 Biblical Translation🏞️ Land And Identity
Sugar
kirjoittanut James Walvin • 2017
The Atlantic slave trade and the global obesity crisis share a single culprit.
3.46
500+
🧱 Commodity Histories🌾 Colonial Agriculture⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism🍬 Sugar Industry🥤 Soda Industry
Sugar Yhteenveto
Sugar
The Atlantic slave trade and the global obesity crisis share a single culprit.
kirjoittanut James Walvin 2017 352 sivua
3.46
500+ arvostelua
🧱 Commodity Histories🌾 Colonial Agriculture⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism🍬 Sugar Industry🥤 Soda Industry
Wench
kirjoittanut Dolen Perkins-Valdez • 2010
An enslaved woman at a free-state resort must choose: her friend's freedom or her children's safety.
3.74
18 000+
🏛️ Antebellum South📜 Neo-Slave Narrative🤝 Found Sisterhood⛓️ Enslaved Concubinage🤱 Enslaved Motherhood
Wench Yhteenveto
Wench
An enslaved woman at a free-state resort must choose: her friend's freedom or her children's safety.
kirjoittanut Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2010 290 sivua
3.74
18 000+ arvostelua
🏛️ Antebellum South📜 Neo-Slave Narrative🤝 Found Sisterhood⛓️ Enslaved Concubinage🤱 Enslaved Motherhood
Kertomus Frederick Douglassin elämästä, amerikkalaisen orjan
kirjoittanut Frederick Douglass • 2004
A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.
4.13
100 000+
📜 Slave Narratives⛓️ American Slavery🔓 Self-Emancipation📚 Literacy And Freedom✊ Abolitionist Literature
Kertomus Frederick Douglassin elämästä, amerikkalaisen orjan Yhteenveto
Kertomus Frederick Douglassin elämästä, amerikkalaisen orjan
A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.
kirjoittanut Frederick Douglass 2004 158 sivua
4.13
100 000+ arvostelua
📜 Slave Narratives⛓️ American Slavery🔓 Self-Emancipation📚 Literacy And Freedom✊ Abolitionist Literature
From Here to Equality
kirjoittanut William A. Darity Jr. • 2020
A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.
4.38
500+
💸 Racial Wealth Gap⚖️ Reparations Debate🔗 Systemic Racism📊 Wealth Inequality📜 Black Economic History
From Here to Equality Yhteenveto
From Here to Equality
A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.
kirjoittanut William A. Darity Jr. 2020 424 sivua
4.38
500+ arvostelua
💸 Racial Wealth Gap⚖️ Reparations Debate🔗 Systemic Racism📊 Wealth Inequality📜 Black Economic History
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
kirjoittanut Abraham Lincoln • 1953
The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.
4.13
313
🏛️ Presidential Biography⚔️ Civil War History⛓️ Antislavery Thought⚖️ Moral Leadership📜 Primary Sources
Writings of Abraham Lincoln Yhteenveto
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.
kirjoittanut Abraham Lincoln 1953
4.13
313 arvostelua
🏛️ Presidential Biography⚔️ Civil War History⛓️ Antislavery Thought⚖️ Moral Leadership📜 Primary Sources
The Pioneers
kirjoittanut David McCullough • 2019
Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.
3.82
28 000+
🇺🇸 Early American Republic🪓 Frontier Settlement🌄 Westward Expansion🏛️ Nation Building🏕️ Frontier Life
The Pioneers Yhteenveto
The Pioneers
Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.
kirjoittanut David McCullough 2019 330 sivua
3.82
28 000+ arvostelua
🇺🇸 Early American Republic🪓 Frontier Settlement🌄 Westward Expansion🏛️ Nation Building🏕️ Frontier Life
Slavery by Another Name
kirjoittanut Douglas A. Blackmon • 2008
The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.
4.38
7 000+
⛓️ Forced Labor📜 Jim Crow Era🏗️ Reconstruction Era🔗 Mass Incarceration Origins💰 Racial Capitalism
Slavery by Another Name Yhteenveto
Slavery by Another Name
The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.
kirjoittanut Douglas A. Blackmon 2008 480 sivua
4.38
7 000+ arvostelua
⛓️ Forced Labor📜 Jim Crow Era🏗️ Reconstruction Era🔗 Mass Incarceration Origins💰 Racial Capitalism
A House for Miss Pauline
kirjoittanut Diana McCaulay • 2025
At ninety-nine, a Jamaican woman hears her stone house groan. The ruin wants its secret back.
3.98
500+
📜 Caribbean Historical⚖️ Postcolonial Reckoning🔑 Generational Secrets🤝 Found Family🌍 Land As Legacy
A House for Miss Pauline Yhteenveto
A House for Miss Pauline
At ninety-nine, a Jamaican woman hears her stone house groan. The ruin wants its secret back.
kirjoittanut Diana McCaulay 2025 320 sivua
3.98
500+ arvostelua
📜 Caribbean Historical⚖️ Postcolonial Reckoning🔑 Generational Secrets🤝 Found Family🌍 Land As Legacy
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
kirjoittanut Maxine Berg • 2023
Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.
4.42
26
🏛️ Economic History⛓️ Atlantic Slavery🏭 Industrial Revolution🍬 Colonial Commodities🟤 Racial Capitalism
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution Yhteenveto
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.
kirjoittanut Maxine Berg 2023 282 sivua
4.42
26 arvostelua
🏛️ Economic History⛓️ Atlantic Slavery🏭 Industrial Revolution🍬 Colonial Commodities🟤 Racial Capitalism
The Great Contradiction
kirjoittanut Joseph J. Ellis • 2025
To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.
4.20
1 000+
🏛️ Founding Era📜 Constitutional History⛓️ Slavery And The Founders🪶 Indian Removal⚖️ Liberty And Slavery
The Great Contradiction Yhteenveto
The Great Contradiction
To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.
kirjoittanut Joseph J. Ellis 2025 240 sivua
4.20
1 000+ arvostelua
🏛️ Founding Era📜 Constitutional History⛓️ Slavery And The Founders🪶 Indian Removal⚖️ Liberty And Slavery
Unworthy Republic
kirjoittanut Claudio Saunt • 2020
Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.
4.22
1 000+
🎩 Jacksonian America🏚️ Settler Colonialism⛓️ Antebellum South🧳 Forced Migration🏞️ Land Dispossession
Unworthy Republic Yhteenveto
Unworthy Republic
Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.
kirjoittanut Claudio Saunt 2020 396 sivua
4.22
1 000+ arvostelua
🎩 Jacksonian America🏚️ Settler Colonialism⛓️ Antebellum South🧳 Forced Migration🏞️ Land Dispossession
The South Was Right!
kirjoittanut James Ronald Kennedy • 1991
The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.
3.93
482
🏴 Lost Cause🏡 Southern Identity📜 Historical Revisionism🏛️ State Sovereignty✂️ Secession
The South Was Right! Yhteenveto
The South Was Right!
The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.
kirjoittanut James Ronald Kennedy 1991 431 sivua
3.93
482 arvostelua
🏴 Lost Cause🏡 Southern Identity📜 Historical Revisionism🏛️ State Sovereignty✂️ Secession
Natives
kirjoittanut Akala • 2018
Britain's empire never ended. It just learned to call itself meritocracy.
4.53
22 000+
🇬🇧 British Empire🏛️ Structural Racism👮 Police And Race🏫 Education Inequality🖤 Black Britain
Natives Yhteenveto
Natives
Britain's empire never ended. It just learned to call itself meritocracy.
kirjoittanut Akala 2018 352 sivua
4.53
22 000+ arvostelua
🇬🇧 British Empire🏛️ Structural Racism👮 Police And Race🏫 Education Inequality🖤 Black Britain
Cuba
kirjoittanut Ada Ferrer • 2021
Cuba was America's obsession long before Castro. The Cold War just froze a deeper fight.
4.46
5 000+
🏝️ Caribbean History🌎 Us Foreign Policy🇨🇺 Cuban Revolution⛓️ Caribbean Slavery🗽 American Empire
Cuba Yhteenveto
Cuba
Cuba was America's obsession long before Castro. The Cold War just froze a deeper fight.
kirjoittanut Ada Ferrer 2021 560 sivua
4.46
5 000+ arvostelua
🏝️ Caribbean History🌎 Us Foreign Policy🇨🇺 Cuban Revolution⛓️ Caribbean Slavery🗽 American Empire
Tower of Blood and Flame
kirjoittanut A.E. Rayne • 2023
Enslaved on a blood-soaked isle, a warrior queen sparks a slave revolt before she is sacrificed.
4.71
500+
🗡️ Warrior Queen⛓️‍💥 Slave Revolt🌊 Nautical Fantasy🔮 Prophetic Dreams💔 Separated Lovers
Tower of Blood and Flame Yhteenveto
Tower of Blood and Flame
Enslaved on a blood-soaked isle, a warrior queen sparks a slave revolt before she is sacrificed.
kirjoittanut A.E. Rayne 2023 682 sivua
4.71
500+ arvostelua
🗡️ Warrior Queen⛓️‍💥 Slave Revolt🌊 Nautical Fantasy🔮 Prophetic Dreams💔 Separated Lovers
American Slavery, American Freedom
kirjoittanut Edmund S. Morgan • 1975
American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.
4.12
3 000+
🏛️ Colonial America🌿 Virginia History⛓️ Origins Of Slavery🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Race And Class🔨 Labor History
American Slavery, American Freedom Yhteenveto
American Slavery, American Freedom
American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.
kirjoittanut Edmund S. Morgan 1975 464 sivua
4.12
3 000+ arvostelua
🏛️ Colonial America🌿 Virginia History⛓️ Origins Of Slavery🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Race And Class🔨 Labor History
King Leopold's Ghost
kirjoittanut Adam Hochschild • 1998
Private kingdom, fake charity, ten million dead: the Congo holocaust that Europe chose to forget.
4.19
70 000+
🪓 Colonial Violence🇨🇩 Congo History🕵️ Investigative Journalism📢 Propaganda Analysis🦸 Heroic Activism
King Leopold's Ghost Yhteenveto
King Leopold's Ghost
Private kingdom, fake charity, ten million dead: the Congo holocaust that Europe chose to forget.
kirjoittanut Adam Hochschild 1998 442 sivua
4.19
70 000+ arvostelua
🪓 Colonial Violence🇨🇩 Congo History🕵️ Investigative Journalism📢 Propaganda Analysis🦸 Heroic Activism
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
kirjoittanut John Henrik Clarke • 1992
Columbus did not discover a new world. He launched a slave trade that built capitalism.
4.45
500+
🏛️ African History⛓️ Atlantic Slave Trade✊🏿 Pan-Africanism💰 Capitalism And Slavery🏺 African Civilizations
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust Yhteenveto
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Columbus did not discover a new world. He launched a slave trade that built capitalism.
kirjoittanut John Henrik Clarke 1992 131 sivua
4.45
500+ arvostelua
🏛️ African History⛓️ Atlantic Slave Trade✊🏿 Pan-Africanism💰 Capitalism And Slavery🏺 African Civilizations
Spartacus
kirjoittanut Ben Kane • 2012
Betrayed into slavery, a Thracian gladiator raises an army and challenges Rome for freedom.
4.08
3 000+
🏛️ Ancient Rome⛓️ Slave Uprising🤝 Found Family👑 Reluctant Leader💔 Love In Wartime
Spartacus Yhteenveto
Spartacus
Betrayed into slavery, a Thracian gladiator raises an army and challenges Rome for freedom.
kirjoittanut Ben Kane 2012 448 sivua
4.08
3 000+ arvostelua
🏛️ Ancient Rome⛓️ Slave Uprising🤝 Found Family👑 Reluctant Leader💔 Love In Wartime
A Necessary Evil
kirjoittanut Garry Wills • 1999
The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.
3.78
196
🏛️ Political History📜 Constitutional History🏴 Government Distrust🕵️ Political Myths⚖️ Federalism
A Necessary Evil Yhteenveto
A Necessary Evil
The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.
kirjoittanut Garry Wills 1999 368 sivua
3.78
196 arvostelua
🏛️ Political History📜 Constitutional History🏴 Government Distrust🕵️ Political Myths⚖️ Federalism
Sweetness and Power
kirjoittanut Sidney W. Mintz • 1985
Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.
3.78
2 000+
📦 Commodity Histories⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism🍽️ Food Anthropology🏝️ Colonial Economies🍞 Dietary Transformation
Sweetness and Power Yhteenveto
Sweetness and Power
Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.
kirjoittanut Sidney W. Mintz 1985 304 sivua
3.78
2 000+ arvostelua
📦 Commodity Histories⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism🍽️ Food Anthropology🏝️ Colonial Economies🍞 Dietary Transformation
A Protest History of the United States
kirjoittanut Gloria J. Browne-Marshall • 2025
From Indigenous resistance to Black Lives Matter, American progress came when protest demanded it.
4.12
188
🪧 Social Movements📖 People's History✊🏿 Racial Justice🏹 Indigenous Sovereignty⚒️ Labor History
A Protest History of the United States Yhteenveto
A Protest History of the United States
From Indigenous resistance to Black Lives Matter, American progress came when protest demanded it.
kirjoittanut Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 2025 360 sivua
4.12
188 arvostelua
🪧 Social Movements📖 People's History✊🏿 Racial Justice🏹 Indigenous Sovereignty⚒️ Labor History
Racism
kirjoittanut George M. Fredrickson • 2002
Racism isn't eternal: it was invented in the West around the 1400s, and this is its biography.
3.77
500+
🏛️ Intellectual History🧬 Scientific Racism🏴 White Supremacy📜 Antisemitism History⚖️ Comparative Racism
Racism Yhteenveto
Racism
Racism isn't eternal: it was invented in the West around the 1400s, and this is its biography.
kirjoittanut George M. Fredrickson 2002 224 sivua
3.77
500+ arvostelua
🏛️ Intellectual History🧬 Scientific Racism🏴 White Supremacy📜 Antisemitism History⚖️ Comparative Racism
Stamped from the Beginning
kirjoittanut Ibram X. Kendi • 2016
Racist policies came first. Racist ideas were invented after, to make discrimination look natural.
4.53
38 000+
📚 Intellectual History🏛️ Structural Racism✊ Antiracism📖 Critical Race Theory📜 Race And Policy
Stamped from the Beginning Yhteenveto
Stamped from the Beginning
Racist policies came first. Racist ideas were invented after, to make discrimination look natural.
kirjoittanut Ibram X. Kendi 2016 592 sivua
4.53
38 000+ arvostelua
📚 Intellectual History🏛️ Structural Racism✊ Antiracism📖 Critical Race Theory📜 Race And Policy
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
kirjoittanut Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • 2021
Behind the immigrant myth: a settler state founded on land theft, genocide, and a war economy.
4.35
1 000+
🏛️ Settler Colonialism🌎 US Imperialism🗽 American Origin Myths💰 Racial Capitalism🚧 Border Politics
Not "A Nation of Immigrants" Yhteenveto
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Behind the immigrant myth: a settler state founded on land theft, genocide, and a war economy.
kirjoittanut Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2021 392 sivua
4.35
1 000+ arvostelua
🏛️ Settler Colonialism🌎 US Imperialism🗽 American Origin Myths💰 Racial Capitalism🚧 Border Politics
Cape Cod and the Civil War
kirjoittanut Stauffer Miller • 2010
A peninsula voted its morals over its money, then became the Union's lifeline at sea.
4.14
7
🏛️ Civil War Microhistory📜 Massachusetts History⚓ Naval History✊ Abolitionism🏠 Home Front Life
Cape Cod and the Civil War Yhteenveto
Cape Cod and the Civil War
A peninsula voted its morals over its money, then became the Union's lifeline at sea.
kirjoittanut Stauffer Miller 2010 225 sivua
4.14
7 arvostelua
🏛️ Civil War Microhistory📜 Massachusetts History⚓ Naval History✊ Abolitionism🏠 Home Front Life
White Supremacy
kirjoittanut George M. Fredrickson • 1981
Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.
3.88
113
🏛️ Comparative History🌍 Settler Colonialism🎨 Color Line🚧 Jim Crow🇿🇦 Apartheid
White Supremacy Yhteenveto
White Supremacy
Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.
kirjoittanut George M. Fredrickson 1981 384 sivua
3.88
113 arvostelua
🏛️ Comparative History🌍 Settler Colonialism🎨 Color Line🚧 Jim Crow🇿🇦 Apartheid
A Nation Without Borders
kirjoittanut Steven Hahn • 2016
The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.
4.00
332
🏛️ American Empire💰 Slavery And Capitalism🏜️ New Western History⚔️ Civil War And Reconstruction🗺️ Continental Expansion
A Nation Without Borders Yhteenveto
A Nation Without Borders
The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.
kirjoittanut Steven Hahn 2016 608 sivua
4.00
332 arvostelua
🏛️ American Empire💰 Slavery And Capitalism🏜️ New Western History⚔️ Civil War And Reconstruction🗺️ Continental Expansion
The Common Cause
kirjoittanut Robert G. Parkinson • 2016
Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.
4.10
49
⚔️ American Revolution📢 Propaganda Studies🎭 Racial Politics📜 Newspaper History🏛️ Founding Myths
The Common Cause Yhteenveto
The Common Cause
Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.
kirjoittanut Robert G. Parkinson 2016 742 sivua
4.10
49 arvostelua
⚔️ American Revolution📢 Propaganda Studies🎭 Racial Politics📜 Newspaper History🏛️ Founding Myths
A Nation Under Our Feet
kirjoittanut Steven Hahn • 2003
Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.
4.11
500+
🗳️ Reconstruction Era🌾 Southern History🌱 Grassroots Organizing🧠 Black Political Thought🛡️ Resistance And Survival
A Nation Under Our Feet Yhteenveto
A Nation Under Our Feet
Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.
kirjoittanut Steven Hahn 2003 624 sivua
4.11
500+ arvostelua
🗳️ Reconstruction Era🌾 Southern History🌱 Grassroots Organizing🧠 Black Political Thought🛡️ Resistance And Survival
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
kirjoittanut Gerald Horne • 2018
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
4.26
189
🌊 Atlantic History🏚️ Settler Colonialism💰 Racial Capitalism◻️ Origins Of Whiteness⛓️ Slave Trade History
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism Yhteenveto
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
kirjoittanut Gerald Horne 2018 280 sivua
4.26
189 arvostelua
🌊 Atlantic History🏚️ Settler Colonialism💰 Racial Capitalism◻️ Origins Of Whiteness⛓️ Slave Trade History
Making Race and Nation
kirjoittanut Anthony W. Marx • 1997
To unify warring whites, America and South Africa traded black rights. Brazil chose a quieter cage.
3.89
109
🌐 Comparative Politics🧬 Race And Ethnicity🏗️ Nation Building🔨 Racial Formation🚧 Segregation
Making Race and Nation Yhteenveto
Making Race and Nation
To unify warring whites, America and South Africa traded black rights. Brazil chose a quieter cage.
kirjoittanut Anthony W. Marx 1997 412 sivua
3.89
109 arvostelua
🌐 Comparative Politics🧬 Race And Ethnicity🏗️ Nation Building🔨 Racial Formation🚧 Segregation
The Republic of Violence
kirjoittanut J.D. Dickey • 2022
The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.
4.03
34
🏛️ Antebellum America✊ American Abolitionism🔥 Racial Violence🎩 Jacksonian Era⛪ Evangelical Reform
The Republic of Violence Yhteenveto
The Republic of Violence
The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.
kirjoittanut J.D. Dickey 2022 408 sivua
4.03
34 arvostelua
🏛️ Antebellum America✊ American Abolitionism🔥 Racial Violence🎩 Jacksonian Era⛪ Evangelical Reform
American Taxation, American Slavery
kirjoittanut Robin L. Einhorn • 2006
The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.
4.17
46
📈 Economic History💰 Tax History⛓ Slave Power⚔️ Sectional Conflict⚖️ Constitutional Law
American Taxation, American Slavery Yhteenveto
American Taxation, American Slavery
The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.
kirjoittanut Robin L. Einhorn 2006 352 sivua
4.17
46 arvostelua
📈 Economic History💰 Tax History⛓ Slave Power⚔️ Sectional Conflict⚖️ Constitutional Law
The Interbellum Constitution
kirjoittanut Alison L. LaCroix • 2024
Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.
4.47
17
⚖️ American Legal History🏛️ Federalism⏳ Antebellum America📜 States' Rights⛓️ Slavery And The Law
The Interbellum Constitution Yhteenveto
The Interbellum Constitution
Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.
kirjoittanut Alison L. LaCroix 2024 576 sivua
4.47
17 arvostelua
⚖️ American Legal History🏛️ Federalism⏳ Antebellum America📜 States' Rights⛓️ Slavery And The Law
Our First Civil War
kirjoittanut H.W. Brands • 2021
Before fighting Britain, Americans fought each other. The Revolution as a civil war among neighbors.
3.90
1 000+
⚔️ American Revolution🏛️ Founding Era🌎 Colonial America💔 Divided Loyalties🪖 Military History
Our First Civil War Yhteenveto
Our First Civil War
Before fighting Britain, Americans fought each other. The Revolution as a civil war among neighbors.
kirjoittanut H.W. Brands 2021 486 sivua
3.90
1 000+ arvostelua
⚔️ American Revolution🏛️ Founding Era🌎 Colonial America💔 Divided Loyalties🪖 Military History
Preserving the White Man's Republic
kirjoittanut Joshua A. Lynn • 2019
How Jacksonian Democrats fused liberty and exclusion into a conservatism that still shapes America.
3.82
11
🏛️ Jacksonian Era🗳️ Antebellum Politics⚖️ Sectional Crisis🔍 Whiteness Studies👥 Gendered Politics
Preserving the White Man's Republic Yhteenveto
Preserving the White Man's Republic
How Jacksonian Democrats fused liberty and exclusion into a conservatism that still shapes America.
kirjoittanut Joshua A. Lynn 2019 288 sivua
3.82
11 arvostelua
🏛️ Jacksonian Era🗳️ Antebellum Politics⚖️ Sectional Crisis🔍 Whiteness Studies👥 Gendered Politics
Blonde Roots
kirjoittanut Bernardine Evaristo • 2008
When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.
3.60
9 000+
🕰️ Alternate History⛓️ Chattel Slavery🌾 Plantation Life🫂 Found Family💔 Generational Trauma
Blonde Roots Yhteenveto
Blonde Roots
When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.
kirjoittanut Bernardine Evaristo 2008 288 sivua
3.60
9 000+ arvostelua
🕰️ Alternate History⛓️ Chattel Slavery🌾 Plantation Life🫂 Found Family💔 Generational Trauma
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