books about: enslavement

books about: enslavement

books:

Enslavement

Sexual Enslavement of Girls and Women Worldwide (Practical and Applied Psychology)
Andrea Parrot, Nina Cummings

Praeger Publishers, 2008

They are in different countries but share the same hell. Maria is one of 14 women lured from Mexico to Seattle, Washington, with the promise of a job, then held by force in a brothel and required to sexually service men 12 hours a day. Anna is a young mother from the Ukraine who left her husband and children there to take a job as a housecleaner ...

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

Douglas A. Blackmon

Doubleday, 2008

Very quick delivery!
Every time I order books directly from Amazon it arrives within three days, and I love that. Thanks Amazon! Karyn

They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America

Michael A. Hoffman II

Wiswell Ruffin House, 1993

The Old New World Order
The main thing this book documents is the history of white slavery in North America, England and the Carribean during the same time period the African slave trade was underway using sources written during that time. Everything that you'll never hear about or that just ...

The Simplest Path to Personal and Planetary Awakening Step One:: FREE YOUR MIND

Vincent Jr. Casspriano

LULU, 2007

A Unique and Inspiring Wake-up Call
This is one of the most clear-headed books I've read in years on the subject of real, nitty gritty, get your hands dirty spiritual development (as opposed to the fru fru New Age variety). So much of what passes for "spirituality" in our time amounts to some author, ...

Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715 (Indians of the ...
Paul Kelton

University of Nebraska Press, 2007

Epidemics and Enslavement is a groundbreaking examination of the relationship between the Indian slave trade and the spread of Old World diseases in the colonial southeastern United States. Paul Kelton scrupulously traces the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of the Southeast and concludes that, while indigenous peoples ...

Property Rites - A Deed of Enslavement

Han, Li Thorn

Velluminous Press, 2006

Some words from the author
My erotic novel Property Rites is set in the medieval-fantasy kingdom of Xendria. It tells the story of Alasha, a naive young noblewoman who is swindled out of her inheritance by her conniving stepfather and stepbrother, and sold to a passing slave caravan. The novel ...

Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862
Judith Kelleher Schafer

Louisiana State University Press, 2003

For more than 150 years, the tales of hundreds of slaves and free people of color who used the judicial system to negotiate their freedom lay buried deep within the dusty records of the New Orleans district courts. Then Judith Kelleher Schafer spent fourteen years poring over Minute Books and trial transcripts, uncovering fascinating cases. In ...

Sufferings in Africa: The Incredible True Story of a Shipwreck, Enslavement, and Survival on the Sahara

Captain James Riley

Skyhorse Publishing, 2007

An incredible true story and a great read
I was surprised I'd never heard of this book, supposedly one of the books Abraham Lincoln considered influential. It is the true story of an American sea captain who is shipwrecked and taken prisoner, then enslaved, by Arabs. Through his ingenious bargaining and a ...

As If Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East
Ehud R. Toledano

Yale University Press, 2007

This groundbreaking book reconceptualizes slavery through the voices of enslaved persons themselves, voices that have remained silent in the narratives of conventional history. Focusing in particular on the Islamic Middle East from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, Ehud R. Toledano examines how bonded persons experienced ...

Empire, Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean

Michael Craton

Ian Randle Publishers, 1997

review from choice magazine
"Topics of this important collection range broadly over the origins of sugar plantations and the planter's world, the relations between the British West Indies and the North American colonies, the character of slave societies, slave family life, and slave resistance, ...

History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822

Pier M. Larson

Heinemann, 2000

History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement
Following the television series, Wonders of the African World by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Africanist world refocused attention on slave trade in Africa. Gates Jr. oversimplified the complex history of slavery by suggesting that if Africans had not sold slaves, there ...

IRS Humbug: Weapons of Enslavement

Frank Kowalik

Universalistic Pub, 1990

The most lucid explanation of the U.S. Tax code written.
Do you care to fully understand your rights and obligations to the U.S. Government as it pertains to the Internal Revenue Code? Read this book. Mr. Kowalik's in depth explanation of the evolution of the United States Tax Code is the best thus far written. Though it ...

The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949: Survivors Accounts of Japanese Invasion and ...

McFarland & Company, 2003

Voices from a forgotten history
This is history they didn't teach us in school! Jan Krancher has compiled 24 personal accounts from survivors of a brutal -and nearly forgotten- episode of World War II: the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and imprisonment of thousands of its people. This ...

Flight from Novaa Salow: Autobiography of a Ukrainian Who Escaped Starvation in the 1930s Under the Russians ...

Julia Alexandrow, Tommy French

McFarland & Company, 1995

Excellent Book
This book was excellent reading and provided me with a lot of insight as to what my Ukrainian grandparents experienced. They both served as labor for the Germans during WWII. This book allowed me to understand the horrors and starvation that the Ukrainians experienced ...

The Enslavement of the American Indian in Colonial Times

Barbara J. Olexer

Joyous Publishing, 2005

An enlightening look at an oft-ignored subject!
In THE ENSLAVEMENT OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN IN COLONIAL TIMES, author Barbara J. Olexer examines the subject of American Indian slavery. While she does trace the roots of American Indian slavery back as far as 1013, her discussion primarily focuses on the colonial ...