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Slaves and slave holders on the Gold Coast : towards an understanding of social bondage in West Africa / Peter Haenger ; edited by J.J. Shaffer and Paul E. Lovejoy ; introduction by Paul E. Lovejoy; translated from the German by Christina Handford

Author:
Haenger, Peter  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Ghana
Date:
2000
Topic:
Slavery--History  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Missions, Swiss  Search this
Slavery and the church  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_686321
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Reconfiguring slavery : West African trajectories / edited by Benedetta Rossi

Author:
Rossi, Benedetta  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Africa, West
Date:
2009
Topic:
Slavery--History  Search this
Children of freed persons--History  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation--History  Search this
Slave trade--History  Search this
Slaves--Social conditions  Search this
Freed persons--Social conditions  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_973039
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The destruction of Brazilian slavery, 1850-1888

Author:
Conrad, Robert Edgar 1928-  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 344 p. illus. 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Brazil
Date:
1972
[1972]
Topic:
Slavery  Search this
Abolitionists  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_741551
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The lost German slave girl : the extraordinary true story of Sally Miller and her fight for freedom in old New Orleans / John Bailey

Author:
Bailey, John 1944 Dec. 15-  Search this
Subject:
Müller, Salomé b. ca. 1809  Search this
Müller, Salomé b. ca. 1809 Trials, litigation, etc  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 268 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
Louisiana
New Orleans
New Orleans (La.)
Date:
2005
2003
[2005]
19th century
Topic:
Slaves  Search this
Women, White  Search this
German Americans  Search this
Trials  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Slavery--Social aspects--History  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_749154
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The political worlds of slavery and freedom / Steven Hahn

Author:
Hahn, Steven 1951-  Search this
Subject:
Garvey, Marcus 1887-1940  Search this
Universal Negro Improvement Association  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 246 p. : ill ; 18 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2009
19th century
20th century
Topic:
Slavery--Political aspects--History  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Slave insurrections--History  Search this
African Americans--Politics and government  Search this
Political participation--History  Search this
Black nationalism--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_919706
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Slavery & abolition

Title:
Slavery and abolition
Physical description:
v. ; 22 cm
Type:
Periodicals
Date:
1980
1980-
Topic:
Slavery  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_895378
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Jamaica : the Negro island

Author:
Cunard, Nancy 1896-1965  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Garvey, Marcus 1887-1940  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Jamaica
Date:
1969
1934
Topic:
Slaves  Search this
Maroons  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Jamaicans--Economic conditions  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
HT1581 .C97 1969
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_900432
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The lost continent : or, Slavery and the slave-trade in Africa 1875, with observations on the Asiatic slave-trade carried on under the name of labour traffic, and some other subjects / Joseph Cooper

Title:
Lost continent : or, Slavery and the slave-trade in Africa 1875, with observations on the Asiatic slave-trade..
Lost continent : or, Slavery and the slave-trade in..
Author:
Cooper, Joseph 1800-1881  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 130 pages ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Africa
Australia
Queensland
Date:
2015
1875
Topic:
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Slave trade  Search this
Slavery  Search this
Blackbirding  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1051189
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The African-American family in slavery and emancipation / Wilma A. Dunaway

Author:
Dunaway, Wilma A  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Appalachian Region, Southern
Date:
2003
Topic:
Slavery--Social aspects--History  Search this
African American families--History  Search this
Slaves--Social conditions  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Freedmen--Social conditions  Search this
African Americans--Social conditions  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_714877
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Henry Highland Garnet : a voice of Black radicalism in the nineteenth century / Joel Schor

Author:
Schor, Joel  Search this
Subject:
Garnet, Henry Highland 1815-1882  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 250 p. ; 22 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1977
Topic:
Antislavery movements  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Abolitionists  Search this
Call number:
CT275.G235 S3
CT275.G235S3
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_87721
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Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation / Julie Roy Jeffrey

Author:
Jeffrey, Julie Roy  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 337 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
2008
C2008
19th century
Civil War, 1861-1865
Topic:
Abolitionists  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
Fugitive slaves  Search this
Autobiography  Search this
Autobiography--African American authors  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Antislavery movements--History  Search this
African Americans--Civil rights--History  Search this
Memory--Social aspects--History  Search this
History  Search this
Causes  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_895455
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Popular graphic images of slavery and emancipation in nineteenth-century England

Author:
Wood, Marcus  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
2007
Topic:
Slaves--Emancipation--In art  Search this
Abolitionists in art  Search this
Slaves in art  Search this
Call number:
HT985 .R46 2007
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_908901
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Douglass and Lincoln : how a revolutionary black leader and a reluctant liberator struggled to end slavery and save the Union / Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick

Author:
Kendrick, Paul 1983-  Search this
Kendrick, Stephen 1954-  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Views on slavery  Search this
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Relations with African Americans  Search this
Physical description:
x, 306 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
2008
19th century
1861-1865
1857-1861
Topic:
African American abolitionists  Search this
Presidents  Search this
Antislavery movements--History  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_897381
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Willing freedom : law, culture, and the manumission of slaves in North and South Carolina

Author:
Rosen, David  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Southern States
Date:
1991
Topic:
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Freedmen  Search this
Slavery--Law and legislation  Search this
Call number:
GN492 .P66 1991X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_910362
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Juneteenth / by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Drew Nelson ; illustrations by Mark Schroder

Author:
Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux  Search this
Nelson, Drew 1952-  Search this
Schroder, Mark  Search this
Physical description:
48 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Juvenile literature
Place:
Texas
United States
Date:
2006
C2006
Topic:
Juneteenth  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Slavery  Search this
African Americans--Social life and customs  Search this
Slaves  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_904718
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Abolition and emancipation

Author:
Oldfield, J. R (John R.)  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Great Britain
Date:
2007
Topic:
Antislavery movements  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Abolitionists  Search this
Call number:
HT985 .R46 2007
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_908896
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From freedom to freedom : African roots in American soil / edited by Mildred Bain, Erwin Lewis ; foreword by Alex Haley

Author:
Bain, Mildred 1929-  Search this
Lewis, Ervin  Search this
Physical description:
xxi, 386 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Africa
Date:
1976
C1977
Topic:
Slavery  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
African Americans--History  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
E441 .F8X
E441.F8X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_87173
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From slavery to freedom : comparative studies in the rise and fall of Atlantic slavery / Seymour Drescher ; foreword by Stanley L. Engerman

Author:
Drescher, Seymour  Search this
Physical description:
xxv, 454 p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Great Britain
United States
Date:
1999
Topic:
Slavery--History  Search this
Slave trade--History  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_717706
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Bronze group commemorating emancipation. A gift to the city of Boston from Hon. Moses Kimball. Dedicated December 6, 1879 ..

Author:
Boston (Mass.)  Search this
Prince, Frederick Octavius 1818-1899  Search this
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865  Search this
Physical description:
75 p. front. (phot.) 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1879
Topic:
Emancipation statue (Boston, Mass.)  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Call number:
F73.64 .B74
F73.64.B74
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_73693
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The sugar industry and the abolition of the slave trade, 1775-1810 / Selwyn H.H. Carrington ; foreword by Colin Palmer

Author:
Carrington, Selwyn H. H. 1937-  Search this
Physical description:
xxii, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
West Indies, British
Date:
2002
C2002
Topic:
Sugar trade--History  Search this
Slavery--History  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation--History  Search this
Economic conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_715235

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