Slaveri & frigörelse från slaveri

"Vithetens lön" var en ersättning som en gång gavs till vita arbetare i USA. Trots usla arbetsvillkor visade detta att de ändå stod över de svarta på samhällsstegen. Mycket har förändrats, men en rasism består och kan förstärkas när vita...

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2024* *An instant Sunday Times bestseller, Radio 4 Book of the Week and Guardian Best Summer Read* Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Guardian and The Rest is Politics Everyone is originally fro...

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Dick Harrisons mästerliga och angelägna skildring av slaveriets historia! Dick Harrison, professor i historia och prisbelönt författare, är nu aktuell med en bok om ett ämne som berör honom djupt. Det handlar om en av världshistoriens största trag...

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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopolds Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver. In the late ninetee...

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År 1732 erhöll den svenske kungen Fredrik I ett lejon i present av härskaren i den nordafrikanska staden Alger. Inte en tavla av ett lejon eller en skulptur av ett lejon, utan ett livs levande vilddjur som blev en stor celebritet efter ankomsten t...

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'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times 'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The iconic study of the H...

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Inspired by true historical events in the Caribbean, River Sing Me Home will break your heart and then lift you up. A soaring story of courage and sacrifice, this novel reminds us of the remarkable strength of hope. A Good Morning America Book Clu...

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In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from pr...

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'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner ...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. One thing is certain, that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later. Viewed by many as fuelling the abo...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book Sathnam Sanghera By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in somet...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond. The rema...

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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopolds Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe...

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Hur såg det nordiska slaveriet ut under vikingatiden? Finns det över huvud taget möjlighet att skapa sig en uppfattning om det? Professor Stefan Brink har formligen dammsugit alla upptänkliga källmaterial och behandlar arkeologi, runor, ortnamn, p...

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Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves economic role in society, their crucial contributions to Greek and Roman culture, and their daily and family lives, the ...

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The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the histo...

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* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A spectacular achievement ANTHONY DOERR Extravagantly beautiful DAILY MAIL One of the greatest writers of all time JACQUELINE WOODSON Extraordinary GUARDIAN The best book Ive read in years LOUISE KENNEDY --------...

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bell hooks (1952-2021) är en amerikansk författare, feminist och politisk aktivist. Hennes kritiska studier av kön, etnicitet, klass och sexualitet har haft enorm betydelse för en bredare förståelse av feminism och utvecklandet av intersektionalit...

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Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist mov...

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This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abus...

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Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation.Tracing the i...

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The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He p...

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In the age of abolition, British politicians, slave owners, doctors, and missionaries were promoting motherhood among women working on Caribbean plantations, as a way to sustain the labor force in the absence of new African recruits. Paugh recount...

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När Jonas Thorsons föräldrar en dag år 1707 får veta att deras son har sålts som slav på en auktion i Alger på den ökända Barbariska kusten i Medelhavet är det ett skakande besked. Men Thorson är inte ensam: under perioden 1650 1770 tillfångatogs ...

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During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slave...

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Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery. Of all the many horrors of slavery, the c...

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William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade.Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to le...

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'One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers' Claudia Rankine 'An unrelenting exploration of slavery and freedom' New Yorker In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman draws together a striking portr...

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"Helt enastående" Aftonbladet Vid en gejmingdator i en etta i Södertälje sitter Dennis och styr över cykelbud i en chatt. Han är dispatcher på Foodora och har till uppgift att driva på de bud som är för långsamma eller ber om raster, all...

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