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The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Hardback
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Foreign Policy. “Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” —David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape
Paperback
In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race.
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery
Paperback
First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
Paperback
The extraordinary life of Priscilla Joyner and her quest—along with other formerly enslaved people—to define freedom after the Civil War
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
Hardback
The extraordinary life of Priscilla Joyner and her quest—along with other formerly enslaved people—to find the meaning of freedom after the Civil War