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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives--including from before birth to after death--in the American domestic slave trades. Covering the full "life cycle" (including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Una historia fascinante que narra la apasionada lucha por la libertad de dos mujeres negras en épocas distintas: la Cuba esclavista colonial y la España del siglo XXI. A la isla caribeña arriba un barco portador de una siniestra carga. Más de setecientas mujeres y niñas secuestradas de su África natal llegan para trabajar, hasta la extenuación, en los campos de caña de azúcar y parir hijos que serán también esclavos. Kaweka es...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of Biddy Mason, a slave who found freedom in California in 1856, who practiced the philosophy of sharing as she nursed the sick, delivered babies, and started many philanthropic projects after becoming a wealthy landowner in Los Angeles.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Restored version; standard format (1.33:first).
Language
English
Description
An 8-year old Sicilian princess is kidnapped by pirates, eventually becoming a slave in Carthage. When she reaches adulthood, she attempts to win her freedom again, whatever the costs. Set in the third century B.C. during the Punic Wars.
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