slave trade

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The slave dancer

1975
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

Amazing grace

an anthology of poems about slavery, 1660-1810
2002
An anthology of poems about slavery, written between 1660 and 1810, featuring over four hundred poems and excerpts from longer works by more than 250 poets from America, Britain, and around the Atlantic, including women, African and African-American, and canonical writers.

To be a slave

1998
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

The slave trade

2008
Chronicles 400 years of the African slave trade from the mid-1400s to the mid-1800s.

The slave trade

2003
Traces the origins of slavery in places around the world, and discusses the development of the transatlantic slave trade, slavery in the Americas, the legacy of slavery in Africa and the United States, and the modern practice of slavery. Includes a glossary and a time line of events.

The slave dancer

a novel
2001
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

The making of African America

the four great migrations
2010
A four-hundred-year history of the African-American experience traces four pivotal migrations, including the violent relocation of one million slaves to the antebellum South and the movement of millions to industrial cities a century later.

Inheriting the trade

a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history
2008
The author, along with other members of his family, extensively research their family's heritage revealing their relationship to the most successful slave-trade family in American history.

The village that vanished

2002
In southeastern Africa, a young Yao girl and her mother find a way for their fellow villagers to escape approaching slave traders.

Real pirates

the untold story of the Whydah from slave ship to pirate ship
2007
An illustrated exploration of the eighteenth-century ship "Whydah," which discusses its use as a slave ship, its capture by pirates, and its sinking in Cape Cod in 1717 and describes artifacts from its wreck site.

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