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Documenting the American South

BooksBy Marcus AndersonSeptember 21, 2022

Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on…

The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

BooksBy ugrhOctober 17, 2021

Author: Johnathan Daniel Wells The Kidnapping Club is a powerful and resonant account of the ties between the institution of enslavement and capitalism, corrupt roots of policing in America, and…

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and to the road to the Civil War

BooksBy ugrhOctober 17, 2021

Author: Alice L. Baumgartner The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American enslaved before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped…

Subversives: Anti-Slavery Community in Washington, DC 1828-1865

BooksBy ugrhOctober 17, 2021

Author: Stanley Harrold While many scholars have examined the slavery disputes in the halls of Congress, Subversives is the first history of practical abolitionism in the streets, homes, and places…

The Fugitive Blacksmith

The Fugitive Blacksmith Or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States

BooksBy ugrhFebruary 17, 2020

Author: J.W.C. Pennington Pennington’s narrative portrays his life as both a physical and spiritual progression. His treatment of both movements—from slavery to freedom and ignorance to wisdom—condemns the chattels principle…

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl

BooksBy ugrhFebruary 17, 2020

Author: Harriet Jacobs The true story of an individual’s struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlremains among the few extant slave narratives written by…

The Color of Law

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

BooksBy ugrhFebruary 17, 2020

Author: Richard Rothstein In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially…

Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

BooksBy ugrhFebruary 17, 2020

Author: Douglas A Blackmon  Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Slavery by Another Name unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom…

Bound for Canaan

Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement

BooksBy ugrhFebruary 17, 2020

Author: Fergus Bordewich Bound for Canaan tells the stories of men and women like David Ruggles, who invented the black underground in New York City; bold Quakers like Isaac Hopper and…

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