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 knygų santraukos
The Moor's Account
A Moroccan slave on a doomed Spanish expedition to Florida survives to write the erased history.
Istorinė proza
Istorinė
Grožinė literatūra
Slavery
Colonialism
Įtraukiantys
The Moor's Account
A Moroccan slave on a doomed Spanish expedition to Florida survives to write the erased history.
Istorinė proza
Istorinė
Grožinė literatūra
Slavery
Colonialism
Grįžimas namo
Two half-sisters: a governor's bride above, a captive below. Their lines diverge for centuries.
Istorinė proza
Afrika
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
Afroamerikiečių
Grįžimas namo
Two half-sisters: a governor's bride above, a captive below. Their lines diverge for centuries.
Istorinė proza
Afrika
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
Afroamerikiečių
Dead Wake
Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.
Istorija
Racism
Afroamerikiečių
Socialinis teisingumas
Politika
Dead Wake
Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.
Istorija
Racism
Afroamerikiečių
Socialinis teisingumas
Politika
The Grift
From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.
Istorija
Politika
Rasė
Afroamerikiečių
Socialinis teisingumas
The Grift
From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.
Istorija
Politika
Rasė
Afroamerikiečių
Socialinis teisingumas
March
The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Pilietinis karas
Istorinė
Karas
March
The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Pilietinis karas
Istorinė
Karas
Four Hundred Souls
Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.
Istorija
Rasė
Afroamerikiečių
Slavery
Socialinis teisingumas
Four Hundred Souls
Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.
Istorija
Rasė
Afroamerikiečių
Slavery
Socialinis teisingumas
Benito Cereno
An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.
Klasika
Trumpos apsakymai
Amerikietiška
Literatūra
XIX amžius
Benito Cereno
An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.
Klasika
Trumpos apsakymai
Amerikietiška
Literatūra
XIX amžius
The Autistic Brain
A free Black man is sold into slavery; a single smuggled letter holds his escape.
Istorija
Slavery
Autobiografija
Memuarai
Amerikietiška
The Autistic Brain
A free Black man is sold into slavery; a single smuggled letter holds his escape.
Istorija
Slavery
Autobiografija
Memuarai
Amerikietiška
Amity
To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Afroamerikiečių
Istorinė
Pilietinis karas
Amity
To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Afroamerikiečių
Istorinė
Pilietinis karas
Master Slave Husband Wife
Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.
Istorija
Biografija
Rasė
Slavery
Afroamerikiečių
Master Slave Husband Wife
Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.
Istorija
Biografija
Rasė
Slavery
Afroamerikiečių
Grant
Failed farmer, rumored drunk. How Ulysses Grant won the Civil War and fought the Klan as president.
Biografija
Istorija
Karas
Amerikietiška
Politika
Grant
Failed farmer, rumored drunk. How Ulysses Grant won the Civil War and fought the Klan as president.
Biografija
Istorija
Karas
Amerikietiška
Politika
The Christian Imagination
The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.
Istorija
Religija
Krikščionybė
Rasė
Colonialism
The Christian Imagination
The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.
Istorija
Religija
Krikščionybė
Rasė
Colonialism
Wench
An enslaved woman at a free-state resort must choose: her friend's freedom or her children's safety.
Istorinė proza
Afroamerikiečių
Grožinė literatūra
Grožinė suaugusiems
Istorinė
Wench
An enslaved woman at a free-state resort must choose: her friend's freedom or her children's safety.
Istorinė proza
Afroamerikiečių
Grožinė literatūra
Grožinė suaugusiems
Istorinė
Frederiko Duglaso gyvenimo pasakojimas – amerikiečio vergo istorija
A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.
Istorija
Klasika
Biografija
Memuarai
Autobiografija
Frederiko Duglaso gyvenimo pasakojimas – amerikiečio vergo istorija
A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.
Istorija
Klasika
Biografija
Memuarai
Autobiografija
From Here to Equality
A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.
Istorija
Politika
Rasė
Socialinis teisingumas
Ekonomika
From Here to Equality
A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.
Istorija
Politika
Rasė
Socialinis teisingumas
Ekonomika
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.
Istorija
Biografija
Politika
Žinynai
Karas
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.
Istorija
Biografija
Politika
Žinynai
Karas
The Pioneers
Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Biografija
Jungtinės Valstijos
Karas
The Pioneers
Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Biografija
Jungtinės Valstijos
Karas
Slavery by Another Name
The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.
Istorija
Rasė
Afroamerikiečių
Slavery
Politika
Slavery by Another Name
The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.
Istorija
Rasė
Afroamerikiečių
Slavery
Politika
A House for Miss Pauline
At ninety-nine, a Jamaican woman hears her stone house groan. The ruin wants its secret back.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Knygų klubas
Caribbean
Maginis realizmas
A House for Miss Pauline
At ninety-nine, a Jamaican woman hears her stone house groan. The ruin wants its secret back.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Knygų klubas
Caribbean
Maginis realizmas
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.
Istorija
Ekonomika
Slavery
Capitalism
Rasė
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.
Istorija
Ekonomika
Slavery
Capitalism
Rasė
The Great Contradiction
To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Politika
Slavery
Rasė
The Great Contradiction
To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Politika
Slavery
Rasė
Unworthy Republic
Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.
Istorija
Gimtųjų amerikiečių
Čiabuvių
XIX amžius
Amerikietiška
Unworthy Republic
Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.
Istorija
Gimtųjų amerikiečių
Čiabuvių
XIX amžius
Amerikietiška
The South Was Right!
The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.
Istorija
Politika
Amerikietiška
Karas
Slavery
The South Was Right!
The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.
Istorija
Politika
Amerikietiška
Karas
Slavery
Tower of Blood and Flame
Enslaved on a blood-soaked isle, a warrior queen sparks a slave revolt before she is sacrificed.
Fantastika
Aukštoji fantastika
Tamsioji fantazija
Nuotykiai
Magija
Tower of Blood and Flame
Enslaved on a blood-soaked isle, a warrior queen sparks a slave revolt before she is sacrificed.
Fantastika
Aukštoji fantastika
Tamsioji fantazija
Nuotykiai
Magija
American Slavery, American Freedom
American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.
Istorija
Slavery
Rasė
Politika
Colonialism
American Slavery, American Freedom
American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.
Istorija
Slavery
Rasė
Politika
Colonialism
King Leopold's Ghost
Private kingdom, fake charity, ten million dead: the Congo holocaust that Europe chose to forget.
Istorija
Afrika
Biografija
Politika
Kriminalinis žanras
King Leopold's Ghost
Private kingdom, fake charity, ten million dead: the Congo holocaust that Europe chose to forget.
Istorija
Afrika
Biografija
Politika
Kriminalinis žanras
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Columbus did not discover a new world. He launched a slave trade that built capitalism.
Istorija
Afrika
Rasė
Slavery
Colonialism
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Columbus did not discover a new world. He launched a slave trade that built capitalism.
Istorija
Afrika
Rasė
Slavery
Colonialism
A Necessary Evil
The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.
Istorija
Politika
America
Valdžia
Filosofija
A Necessary Evil
The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.
Istorija
Politika
America
Valdžia
Filosofija
A Protest History of the United States
From Indigenous resistance to Black Lives Matter, American progress came when protest demanded it.
Istorija
Politika
Socialinis teisingumas
Aktyvizmas
America
A Protest History of the United States
From Indigenous resistance to Black Lives Matter, American progress came when protest demanded it.
Istorija
Politika
Socialinis teisingumas
Aktyvizmas
America
Stamped from the Beginning
Racist policies came first. Racist ideas were invented after, to make discrimination look natural.
Istorija
Rasė
Socialinis teisingumas
Politika
Afroamerikiečių
Stamped from the Beginning
Racist policies came first. Racist ideas were invented after, to make discrimination look natural.
Istorija
Rasė
Socialinis teisingumas
Politika
Afroamerikiečių
Sweetness and Power
Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.
Istorija
Antropologija
Maistas
Ekonomika
Sociologija
Sweetness and Power
Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.
Istorija
Antropologija
Maistas
Ekonomika
Sociologija
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Behind the immigrant myth: a settler state founded on land theft, genocide, and a war economy.
Istorija
Politika
Rasė
Socialinis teisingumas
Čiabuvių
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Behind the immigrant myth: a settler state founded on land theft, genocide, and a war economy.
Istorija
Politika
Rasė
Socialinis teisingumas
Čiabuvių
Cape Cod and the Civil War
A peninsula voted its morals over its money, then became the Union's lifeline at sea.
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Karas
XIX amžius
Military
Cape Cod and the Civil War
A peninsula voted its morals over its money, then became the Union's lifeline at sea.
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Karas
XIX amžius
Military
White Supremacy
Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.
Istorija
Afrika
Rasė
Politika
Sociologija
White Supremacy
Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.
Istorija
Afrika
Rasė
Politika
Sociologija
A Nation Without Borders
The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Pilietinis karas
XIX amžius
Slavery
A Nation Without Borders
The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Pilietinis karas
XIX amžius
Slavery
The Common Cause
Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.
Istorija
Politika
Rasė
Amerikietiška
Colonialism
The Common Cause
Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.
Istorija
Politika
Rasė
Amerikietiška
Colonialism
A Nation Under Our Feet
Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.
Istorija
Afroamerikiečių
Rasė
Politika
Pilietinis karas
A Nation Under Our Feet
Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.
Istorija
Afroamerikiečių
Rasė
Politika
Pilietinis karas
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
Istorija
Rasė
Politika
Ekonomika
Slavery
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
Istorija
Rasė
Politika
Ekonomika
Slavery
Making Race and Nation
To unify warring whites, America and South Africa traded black rights. Brazil chose a quieter cage.
Istorija
Politika
Sociologija
Racism
Slavery
Making Race and Nation
To unify warring whites, America and South Africa traded black rights. Brazil chose a quieter cage.
Istorija
Politika
Sociologija
Racism
Slavery
American Taxation, American Slavery
The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.
Istorija
Ekonomika
Jungtinės Valstijos
Politika
Slavery
American Taxation, American Slavery
The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.
Istorija
Ekonomika
Jungtinės Valstijos
Politika
Slavery
The Republic of Violence
The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.
Istorija
Slavery
Amerikietiška
XIX amžius
Rasė
The Republic of Violence
The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.
Istorija
Slavery
Amerikietiška
XIX amžius
Rasė
The Interbellum Constitution
Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.
Istorija
Teisė
Politika
XIX amžius
Slavery
The Interbellum Constitution
Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.
Istorija
Teisė
Politika
XIX amžius
Slavery
Our First Civil War
Before fighting Britain, Americans fought each other. The Revolution as a civil war among neighbors.
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Karas
Politika
Military
Our First Civil War
Before fighting Britain, Americans fought each other. The Revolution as a civil war among neighbors.
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Karas
Politika
Military
Preserving the White Man's Republic
How Jacksonian Democrats fused liberty and exclusion into a conservatism that still shapes America.
Istorija
Politika
XIX amžius
Amerikietiška
Jungtinės Valstijos
Preserving the White Man's Republic
How Jacksonian Democrats fused liberty and exclusion into a conservatism that still shapes America.
Istorija
Politika
XIX amžius
Amerikietiška
Jungtinės Valstijos
Blonde Roots
When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Fantastika
Spekuliatyvioji proza
Rasė
Blonde Roots
When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Fantastika
Spekuliatyvioji proza
Rasė
