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In Complexities of Bondage: Black Slave Owners and the Struggle Over Emancipation During the American Civil War, historian Michael Dozier, PhD, unveils a profound paradox at the heart of America's most divisive era. While the institution of slavery is often framed through the lens of White oppression, this meticulously researched volume illuminates the lesser-known reality of Black slave owners—free individuals of African descent who, by 1860, held thousands in bondage across the ...

Slaves an dInformants interviewed by Maude Barragan, Edith Bell Love, Ruby Lorraine Radford etc. Telfair, Georgia Thomas, Cordelia Thomas, Ike Toombs, Jane Mickens Town, Phil Upson, Neal Van Hook, John F. Vinson, Addie Virgel, Emma Walton, Rhodus Ward, William Washington, Lula Willbanks, Green Williamson, Eliza Willingham, Frances Willis, Adeline Willis, Uncle Winfield, Cornelia Womble, George Wright, Henry Young, Dink Walton Adeline Eugene Mary Rachel Laura Matilda Easter Carrie Malinda A...

Fifteen-year-old Kayden may have two prosthetic limbs, but underneath his master's robotic improvements, he's still only human. Or is he? Slaves aren't afforded any rights in the seedy city of Wurszel, and Kayden's violent owner, the criminal inventor Dr. Malphanx, has no time for mercy.When Kayden gets caught by the police and his master's precious collateral gets confiscated, Malphanx's brutality shifts into high gear and a series of increasingly harrowing events are set into mot...

ABDUCTED BY ALIENS, FORCED INTO BONDAGE...Only a few years earlier, Rose Rico of Earth had no idea that her planet's government was secretly selling human beings to the alien Alphas in exchange for advanced alien technology. Then Rose found herself, along with hundreds of other human captives, bound for the far reaches of space, and compelled to cater to the depraved desires of her new alien masters.Rose broke her chains, freed some of her fellow captives and stole a spaceshi...

This critical book focuses on the geomorphological landscapes of eastern Canada and provides a companion volume to “Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada” (2017). There are a number of unique characteristics of eastern Canada’s landscapes, notably its magnificent coastlines, the extraordinary variety and extent of wetlands, the huge Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, the high incidence of meteorite craters, the spectacular Niagara Falls, urban karst in Montreal and Ottawa, youthful, glac...

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”― Abraham Lincoln.Recollections of life on a plantation, a thrilling slave escape story, Fifty Years in Chains by Charles Ball, a famous essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, a survey of ‘Christian slavery’ and The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chestnut – it’s all here and more in Slave Narrative Six Pack 5.Fifty Years in Ch...

Christian fiction: When Angelica, a slave of Mabutoma's dictator, General Dawodu, is summoned to his office, she knows she'll be expected to "entertain" yet another foreign visitor. Will that visitor, Ken Davis, a geologist Dawodu hopes will find gold in his country, mistreat her--or prove to be the best friend she ever had? Can they escape the country when a coup by Dawodu's enemies threatens?

The new postapocalyptic thriller from the author of Invasive SpeciesIT’S THEIR TERRITORY NOW.Twenty years ago, venomous parasitic wasps known as “thieves” staged a massive, apocalyptic attack on another species—Homo sapiens—putting them on the brink of extinction.But some humans did survive. The colony called Refugia is home to a population of 281, including scientists, a pilot, and a tough young woman named Kait. ...

In East Africa, shrinking herds of wild game have become national treasures worthy of protection. Law enforcement efforts have forced poachers to focus on a less protected cash crop: young, white women with well-shaped bodies. The poachers supply women for a third world sex industry where white prostitutes sell for many times the going rate. A brothel-keeper will sell a woman over and over again, until she goes mad, commits suicide, or dies of disease. The narcotics trade pales in comparis...

A retelling absent of the Red SeaFor fifteen years, Thom believed he was a prince of Alpenwhist. He had climbed the castle turrets to survey his kingdom, learned to duel with the sharpest blades, and stirred up palace intrigue in disguise. That is, until one day when his identity is suddenly shattered by the revelations of a blind woman: He learns that he isn’t a prince at all, but a wretched slave.In a kingdom where ruthlessness is part of everyday life, Thom fears this ne...

You know three things, Pacorus:Your 'army' totals only one hundred men and one hundred women.No help is coming.The gods are unreliable allies.Peace has been restored to the Parthian Empire.The king of kings graces Dura with a visit, the son of Spartacus sits on Media's throne, a great army has been assembled to deal with the eastern threat, and Rome is no longer an implacable enemy of Parthia.Pacorus looks forward to enjoying a permanent cessation...

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She dem...