Slaveri & frigörelse från slaveri

Dick Harrisons mästerliga och angelägna skildring av slaveriets historia! Dick Harrison, professor i historia och prisbelönt författare, är nu aktuell med en bok om ett ämne som berör honom djupt. Det handlar om en av världshistoriens största trag...

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"Vithetens lön" var en ersättning som en gång gavs till vita arbetare i USA. Trots usla arbetsvillkor visade detta att de ändå stod över de svarta på samhällsstegen. Mycket har förändrats, men en rasism består och kan förstärkas när vita...

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From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts In these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist and sch...

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"Helt enastående" Aftonbladet Vid en gejmingdator i en etta i Södertälje sitter Dennis och styr över cykelbud i en chatt. Han är dispatcher på Foodora och har till uppgift att driva på de bud som är för långsamma eller ber om raster, all...

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A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in the maelstrom. In the fall of 1863, the Un...

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'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times 'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The iconic study of the H...

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Powerful, moving and redemptive, RIVER SING ME HOME tells of a mother's desperate search to find her stolen children and her freedom. 'A strong and beautiful novel that stares into the face of brutality and the heart of love' JEANETTE WINTERSON --...

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*AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A Guardian Best Summer Read* Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Guardian and The Rest is Politics Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for ...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass...

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE** A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2021 SELECTION 'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the per...

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Abducted from Africa, sold in America. A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life- Daily Telegraph A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pu...

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"Vithetens lön" var en ersättning som en gång gavs till vita arbetare i USA. Trots usla arbetsvillkor visade detta att de ändå stod över de svarta på samhällsstegen. Mycket har förändrats, men en rasism består och kan förstärkas när vitas andel av...

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AMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary...

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bell hooks (1952-2021) är en amerikansk författare, feminist och politisk aktivist. Hennes kritiska studier av kön, etnicitet, klass och sexualitet har haft enorm betydelse för en bredare förståelse av feminism och utvecklandet av intersektionalit...

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År 1732 erhöll den svenske kungen Fredrik I ett lejon i present av härskaren i den nordafrikanska staden Alger. Inte en tavla av ett lejon eller en skulptur av ett lejon, utan ett livs levande vilddjur som blev en stor celebritet efter ankomsten t...

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* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A spectacular achievement ANTHONY DOERR Extravagantly beautiful DAILY MAIL One of the greatest writers of all time JACQUELINE WOODSON Extraordinary GUARDIAN The best book Ive read in years LOUISE KENNEDY --------...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later. Viewed by many as fuelling the a...

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Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown 2020 Winner of the ...

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This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these societies, nor a vigorous debate, such as occurred in antebellum America, but this does not imply...

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The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in tr...

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Tens of thousands of blacks in America at the start of the Revolutionary War escaped from farms, plantations, and cities to reach the British who offered the promise of emancipation in return for military service. Schama follows their odyssey thro...

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The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read' Peter Frankopan 'One of the must-reads of the year' Suzannah Lipscomb ...

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International migration and migrants have long been among the most debated topics in Europe and around the globe. How do immigrant policies differ between different nation-states? How are migrants and refugees met? Conflicting opinions on migratio...

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När Jonas Thorsons föräldrar en dag år 1707 får veta att deras son har sålts som slav på en auktion i Alger på den ökända Barbariska kusten i Medelhavet är det ett skakande besked. Men Thorson är inte ensam: under perioden 1650 1770 tillfångatogs ...

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**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest ora...

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In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from pr...

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Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist mov...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond. The rema...

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A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written document...

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The story of how three remarkable New Yorkers helped over 3000 African American slaves escape to a life of liberty in Canada, in the decades before the American Civil War

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