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Mr. And Mrs. Prince : How An Extraordinary Eighteenth-century Family Moved Out Of Slavery And Into Legend
by Gerzina Gretchen
$24.95
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Reviewed By... Bill Lewis

HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION. This work is a stunning achievment. Never before have we had anything approaching a full biography of any early New England slaves. Although historians have been giving us more and better information regarding the prevalence of slavery in the north well into the 19th century, we have only had lists of names, locations, and perhaps records of births, deaths, or transfers of ownership. For... read more>>>

Ida A Sword Among Lions : Ida B. Wells And The Campaign Against Lynching
by Giddings Paula J
$35.00
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The best biography always brings its subject to life and simultaneously immerses the reader into the period in which that subject lived. Paula J. Giddings succeeds brilliantly in describing the era in which Ida B. Wells lived and struggled. Gidding's scholarship is prodigious and her mastery of her voluminous sources is nothing less than a tour de force in explaining the social and political conditions that pre... read more>>>

First Class Citizenship : The Civil Rights Letters Of Jackie Robinson
by Long, Michael G.
$18.00
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“Brings together not only an extraordinary set of documents by and about the postbaseball Robinson but, through these letters, an extraordinary account of the times.” —Gerald Early, BookForum

Jackie Robinson’s courage on the baseball diamond is one of the great stories of the civil rights struggle, but he was a fighter off the field as well. In First Class Citizenship, Michael G. Long unearth... read more>>>

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