Category: Race, Racism, Slavery

John Newton; From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

By: AITKEN, Jonathan; YANCEY, Philip

Price: $15.00

Publisher: USA, Crossway Books : 2013

Seller ID: 413

ISBN-13: 9781433541810

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

John Newton,1725-1807, was an English Anglican clergyman and abolitionist who was forced to served as a sailor in the Royal Navy for a period. He was first a slave of Princess Peye, a black princess of the Sherbro people and then, years after, He became the captain of slave ships. He became ordained as an evangelical Anglican cleric, served Olney, Buckinghamshire, for two decades, and also wrote hymns, known for "Amazing Grace" and "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" [wikipedia]. 400pp. An 'as new' copy - bright, clean and fresh, no signs of use. Unpacked weight, 561g. We use both the Canada...
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Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, February 14, 1964

By: ALEXANDER, Roy - Editor

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc. : 1964

Seller ID: 055160

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: VG+

Cover features portrait of Marina Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald. Canada edition - same content as USA edition but scarcer, plus Canadian news. Feature on the Warren Commission. 84pp. Bright and clean copy - attrative front cover portrait. Sound binding. No address labelpresent. No tears or creases. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. This item weighs 164 g and qualifies for inexpensive Lettermail postage within Canada.
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Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, Auigust 20, 1965

By: ALEXANDER, Roy - Editor

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc. : 1965

Seller ID: 33233

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: About VG

Cover features phos of the lead article, 'The Los Angeles Riots'. . Canada edition - same content as USA edition, plus Canadian news. 64pp. Clean, unmarked copy. Sound binding. Address label to left foot of front cover. Light wear to front fore-edge at top. Weight, 122g.
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Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine: September 27, 1963

By: ALEXANDER, Roy - Editor

Price: $9.90

Publisher: New York, Time Inc. : 1963

Seller ID: 22234

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: VG+

Cover features artist drawn portrait of Alabama's Governor George Wallace. - 'Alabama: Civil Rights Battlefield'. Art by Boris Chaliapin. Canada edition - same content as USA edition, plus Canadian news, and much scarcer. 92pp. Bright and clean copy. Sound binding. Address label to left foot of front cover. Unpacked weight, 172g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $3.00 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations.
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Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980

By: ANDERSON, Kay J.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Montreal, McGill Queens Univ Press : 1991

Seller ID: 040920

ISBN-13: 9780773508446

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

The author - 'charts the construction of Chinatown in the minds and streets of the white community of Vancouver over a hundred-year period'. 323pp, illustrated, maps. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding, no wear to cloth. Nearly similar, unclipped dustjacket, with sun-fading to the spine. Weight, 630g.
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Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

By: ASHCROFT, Bill; GRIFFITHS, Gareth; TIFFIN, Helen

Price: $9.50

Publisher: London, Routledge : 2007

Seller ID: 10745

ISBN-13: 9780415428552

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: Fine

"This best-selling key guide, now in its second edition, provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism, explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities". A 'Routledge Key Guide'. xii, 292 pages ; 23 cm. An 'about as new' copy - bright, clean and unmarked. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Unpacked weight, 328g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Canadian GST included. Images a...
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Paul Cuffe and the African Promised Land

By: ATKIN, Mary Gage

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Nashville, Thomas Nelson : 1977

Seller ID: 07988

ISBN-13: 9780840765215

Binding: Cloth, Gilt Titles

Condition: Fine

A biography of the Afro-American sea captain who sought to attract freed blacks from America to the colony of Sierra Leone. Written for Juvenile market. 160pp. Book is as new. Dustjacket has minor edge wear. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are frequently incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. WE use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images are available. Shipped well packed. USA postage is usually $6.50. Canadian postage varies considerably depending on weight...
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African-American Consciousness: Reclaiming Your History

By: BALLARD, John Henry

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Marina Del Rey, Author Published : 1993

Seller ID: 18186

ISBN-13: 9780932279996

Binding: Laminated Pictorial Boards

Condition: Fine

Discover the Real Africa and your Afro-American roots. Introduction by Nelson Mandela. 195pp, photo illustrated, maps etc. Bright, clean, unmarked copy with a sound binding. 'As new'. Weight, 550g.
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The Good Black: a True Story of Race in America

By: BARRETT, Paul M.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Dutton Penguin : 1999

Seller ID: 268

ISBN-13: 9780525943440

Binding: Cloth

Condition: About Fine

Larry Mungin spent his life preparing to succeed in the white world. He looked away from racial inequality and hostility, believing that he'd succeed if he worked hard and played by the rules. He rose from a Queens housing project to Harvard College and Law School, and went on to the world of corporate law. But just when he should have been considered for partnership at his mostly white law firm, he sued for racial discrimination. viii, 296pp. Interior of the book is bright and clean. previous owner's name to the top margin of the ffep, otherwise unmarked. The price-clipped dustjacket is also ...
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They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

By: BARTOLETTI, Susan Campbell

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt USA : 2010

Seller ID: 057117

ISBN-13: 9780618440337

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

'Boys, let us get up a club'. - With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend's mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South. This is the story of the KKK. 172pp, profusely illustrated. Book is 'as new'; The dustjacket shows a little wear to the lower edge of the rear panel and a tiny closed tear to the front panel a...
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Oroonoko : an authoritative text, historical backgrounds, Criticism

By: BEHN, Aphra

Price: $12.00

Publisher: USA, W. W. Norton & Company : 1997

Seller ID: 2365

ISBN-13: 9780393970142

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: About 'As New'

This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Aphra Behn's best-known and most influential work makes available the original 1688 text, the only text published in her lifetime. 'A Norton critical edition'. Edited by Joanna Lipking. Printed in gold on the rear wrapper it states, 'Instructor's Desk Copy'. xvi, 272pp. Bright, clean, unmarked copy, quite fresh. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Micro wear to a handful of tips to the top of pages. Unpacked weight, 310g. We ship Worldwide, at cost, using both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges, at cost, ...
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Bound for Canaan : The Triumph of the Underground Railroad

By: BORDEWICH, Fergus M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Canada, HarperCollins Publishers Limited : 2005

Seller ID: 046354

ISBN-13: 9780006395539

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: Good VG, or Better

A panoramic exploration of the 'Underground Railroad' wherbye escaped slaves from the United States travelled surreptitiously to 'freedom' in Canada. xxvi, 540 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm. Bright, clean and unmarked. Tight, square bidning with light spine creases. Only very minor signs of wear/use. Thick and heavy weighing 840g.
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A resource guide on black pioneers in British Columbia

By: BRITISH COLUMBIA BLACK HISTORY AWARENESS SOCIETY

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Victoria, B. C., British Columbia Black History Awareness Society : 1997

Seller ID: 044643

Binding: Spiral, Metal Binding

Condition: About Fine

This resource guide is designed to assist educators who are interested and involved in promoting cross-cultural education both within and outside the formal school curriculum. 157 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. OCLC Number: 53357593. A bright, clean, unmarked copy with a sound spiral binding. Weight, 498g.
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Epaminondas and His Auintie

By: BRYABNT, Sara Cone

Price: $25.00

Publisher: 1938, Houghton Mifflin Co. : 1938

Seller ID: 056495

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One of a series of books for young children written by Sara Cone Bryant and illustrated by Inez Hogan. It was first published in 1911. Very populat at one time and used in Schools until the 1960s. Criticized as having racist overtones and stereotypes. See - 'Uderstanding the book 'Epaminondas and his Auintie' - a fascinating article on the Ferris State University website. 16pp, illustrated in color. THis copy is an ex-Public Library copy and contains a few, small Library markings, but nothing external. The boards are extremely bright and are unmarked and without wear - display quality. The Dus...
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Epaminondas and His Auntie

By: BRYAN, SaraCone

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. : 1938

Seller ID: 3981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good or Better

'Epaminondas' is a children's story that was originally a folk tale that was orally transmitted in the black community of the Southern States of the United States. First published in 1907. A scarce, African American children's book portraying the late 19th / early 20th century view of African Americans, complete with a stereotypical "Mammy" and young African American child. Epaminondas' simple-minded efforts to follow his mother's instructions have disastrous results, as he attempts to bring a variety of items home from his auntie's house. [18pp], color illustrations by Inez Hogan.This is a li...
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Place Called Estherville

By: CALDWELL, Erskine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Canada, Signet Books : 1952

Seller ID: 052787

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: VG+

A vintage novel of miscegenation and racism in the South. A story of two mulattos - a brother and sister and of the cruel and irresponsible white men and women who pursued them. Written by the master of this genre. Front cover illustrated by one the all-time greats of papertback illustration, James Avati. Signet #918. 189pp. Interior clean and unmarked, but browned as usual. Tight, square binding with no creasing to the spine. Undoubtedly unread. Bright, almost flawless fron t cover. Rear cover shows minor soiling. A well above average copy of display quality. Weight, 106g. May be eligible...
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Chasing Their Dreams: Chinese Settlement in the Northwest Region of British Columbia

By: CHOW, Lily

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Prince George, B. C., Caitlin Press Inc. : 2000

Seller ID: 14959

ISBN-13: 9780920576830

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

An account of Chinese settlement in the Northwest region of British Columbia. xxiv, 158 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. An 'as new' cop y -bright, fresh and unmarked. tight, square binding, glossy unmarked wrappers. Unpacked weight, 288g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. Images available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations.
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Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American: An Autobiography

By: DAVIS, Benjamin O., Jr.

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press : 1991

Seller ID: 14438

ISBN-13: 9780874747423

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Story of the life and achievements of Benjamin O. Davis - in particular as a black airman fighting prejudice and segregation in the United States Military. 442pp, photo illustrated. bright copy with a sound binding and a similar dustjacket. Unmarked copy. Weight, 830g.
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White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's bitter roots : notes of an eighth-generation Afrikaner

By: De VILLIERS, Marq

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Canada, Macmillan of Canada : 1987

Seller ID: 611

ISBN-13: 9780771595301

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

'..., book written to explain how apartheid came to be. Tracing the Afrikaner's history from settlement at the Cape, it chronicles the founding of race relations on slavery and a master-servant relationship'. Neither pro nor anti apartheid. xxvii, 420pp, maps, genealogical table. Book appears 'as new' - except for a bookplate to the ffep. Several newspaper articles of relevance in a plastic bag laid-in. Unpacked weight, 883g. We ship Worldwide, at cost, using both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges, at cost, without overcharging. Canadian domestic postal...
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The Dachau concentration camp 1933 to 1945 ; text and photo documents from the Exhibition

By: DISTEL, Barbara et al - Editors

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Munich, Comite International de Dachau : 2005

Seller ID: 037784

ISBN-13: 9783874907514

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

"The Dachau Concentration Camp 1933 - 1945" ; the new design of the exhibitions undertaken by the House of Bavarian History in cooperation with the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site and the Comite International de Dachau and in consultation with the expert advisory board. Curatorial and authorial team led by Barbara Distel. Text, and photo documents from the Exhibition, with CD. Text in English. 228pp, photo illustrations. CD-ROM in pocket at back. An 'as new' never-used copy. Weight, 667g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal...
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Category: Race, Racism, Slavery