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  • Thoughts on the abolition of the slave trade, and civilization of Africa : with remarks on the African Institution, and an examination of the report of their committee, recommending a general registry of slaves in the British West India islands.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for J.M. Richardson, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange : and J. Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1816.
    • 1816
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc Rare 326.1-M (Marryat, J. Thoughts on the abolition of the slave)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
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  • A short review of the Reports of the African Institution : and of the controversy with Dr. Thorpe, with some reasons against the registry of slaves in the British colonies / by Gilbert Mathison, Esq.

    • Text
    • London : Wm. Stockdale, and J. Asperne, 1816.
    • 1816
    • 2 Items

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    Text SEKM (Mathison, G. Short review of the reports)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • An examination of the principles of the Slave Registry Bill : and of the means of emancipation proposed by the authors of the Bill / by G.W. Jordan, Esq., F.R.S., colonial agent for Barbados.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1816.
    • 1816
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc Rare 326.1-J (Jordan, G. W. Examination of the principles of the slave registry bill)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
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    Text Sc Rare D 18-2 (Lapidus Collection)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
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  • Bond of iron : master and slave at Buffalo Forge / Charles B. Dew.

    • Text
    • New York : W.W. Norton, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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    Text ITD (Buffalo Forge) 95-2232Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Representing the body of the slave / editors, Thomas Wiedemann, Jane Gardner.

    • Text
    • London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 03-1195Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Slave life on the plantation : prisons beneath the sun / Richard Worth.

    • Text
    • Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item

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    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003024291.html
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    Text Sc E 06-726Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Voices from slavery's past : yearning to be heard / Suzanne Cloud Tapper.

    • Text
    • Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item

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    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003025134.html
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    Text Sc E 06-680Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • From slave to abolitionist : the life of William Wells Brown / adapted by Lucille Schulberg Warner ; frontispiece by Tom Feelings.

    • Text
    • New York : Dial Press, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 07-563Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson.

    • Text
    • New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc+ F 07-231Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • When Harriet met Sojourner / by Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans.

    • Text
    • New York : Katherine Tegen Books, c2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 08-791Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave / by Laban Carrick Hill ; illustrated by Bryan Collier.

    • Text
    • New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 11-4Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Harriet Tubman, secret agent : how daring slaves and free Blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War / Thomas B. Allen ; featuring illustrations by Carla Bauer.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item

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    Text Sc C 07-8Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The dead eye and the deep blue sea : a memoir of slavery at sea / Prum Vannak ; edited and translated by Jocelyn Pederick and Ben Pederick.

    • Text
    • New York : Seven Stories Press, [2013]
    • 2015
  • Octavia E. Butler's Kindred : a graphic novel adaptation / by Damian Duffy and John Jennings ; introduction by Nnedi Okorafor.

    • Text
    • New York Abrams Comicarts, 2017.
    • 2017
  • Emancipation Proclamation : Lincoln and the dawn of liberty / Tonya Bolden.

    • Text
    • New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2013.
    • 2013
    • 2 Items
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    Text *R-USLHG E453 .B68 2013Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121

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    Text Sc F 15-353Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Appealing for liberty : freedom suits in the South / Loren Schweninger.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
    • 2018
  • Staging the Amistad : three Sierra Leonean plays / edited and introduced by Matthew J. Christensen.

    • Text
    • Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
    • 2019
  • Un catholicisme colonial : le mariage des Indiens et des esclaves au Brésil, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle / Charlotte de Castelnau-L'Estoile.

    • Text
    • 2019
    • 2019-2019
    • 1 Item
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    Text ReCAP 19-67488Offsite
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  • La cité et ses esclaves : institutions, fictions, expériences / Paulin Ismard.

    • Text
    • Paris XIXe : Éditions du Seuil, [2019]
    • 2019-2019
    • 1 Item
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    Text ReCAP 19-67579Offsite
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  • The poet slave of Cuba : a biography of Juan Francisco Manzano / Margarita Engle ; art by Sean Qualls.

    • Text
    • New York : Henry Holt, 2006.
    • 2006
    • 2 Items

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    Text JFD 08-1271Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    Text Sc D 08-1572Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • York's adventures with Lewis and Clark : an African-American's part in the great expedition / by Rhoda Blumberg.

    • Text
    • New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item

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    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip043/2003009425.html
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    Text Sc F 10-543Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • A picture book of Harriet Tubman / by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Samuel Byrd.

    • Text
    • New York : Holiday House, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text J B Tubman ASchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • When Harriet met Sojourner / by Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans.

    • Text
    • New York : Katherine Tegen Books, ©2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
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    Text J 973.71 COffsite
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  • The freedom maze : a novel / by Delia Sherman.

    • Text
    • Easthampton, MA : Big Mouth House, 2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 13-5777Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Willow / Tonya Cherie Hegamin.

    • Text
    • Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 16-971Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • My name is James Madison Hemings / by Jonah Winter ; illustrated by Terry Widener.

    • Text
    • New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, 2016.
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 16-528Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history / by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper.

    • Text
    • New York : Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
    • 2017-2017
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc+ G 17-95Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Os Jesuítas e as línguas : contexto colonial Brasil-África / Cristine Gorski Severo.

    • Text
    • Campinas, SP : Pontes Editores, [2019]
    • 2019-2019
    • 2 Items
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    Text JX 23-9216Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The abolition of the slave trade [graphic], Or the inhumanity of dealers in human flesh exemplified in Captn. Kimber's treatment of a young Negro girl of 15 for her virjen (sic) modesty.

    • Still image
    • [London] : Pub by S.W. Fores, 1792 April 10.
    • 1792
    • 1 Item
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    Still image Sc Print (Cruikshank, I. The abolition opf the slave trade)Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania / Mark Lanyon.

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    • Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2022.
    • 2022
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 23-961Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Juneteenth story : celebrating the end of slavery in the United States / written by Alliah L. Agostini ; illustrated by Sawyer Cloud.

    • Text
    • Bellevue, WA : Becker & mayer! kids, 2022.
    • 2022-2022
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 23-107Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Songs of slavery and emancipation / Mat Callahan ; introductIon by Robin D.G. Kelley ; afterword by Kali Akuno.

    • Text
    • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
    • 2022-2022
    • 2 Items
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    Text JME 23-578Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    Text Sc E 23-692Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mary Prince / E.L. Norry.

    • Text
    • London : Scholastic, 2022.
    • 2022
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 23-333Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • I can't wait to call you my wife : African American letters of love and family in the Civil War era / by Rita Roberts.

    • Text
    • San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books LLC, [2022]
    • 2022
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 23-242Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Harriet Tubman : freedom's trailblazer / by Kathleen Kudlinski.

    • Text
    • New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc C 23-193Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Escravidão e estado : entre princípios e necessidades, São Paulo (1835-1871) / Antonio Marco Ventura Martins.

    • Text
    • [Belo Horizonte] : Dialética Editora, [2020]
    • 2020-2020
    • 1 Item
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    Text ReCAP 23-3707Offsite
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  • A flag for Juneteenth / Kim Taylor.

    • Text
    • New York : Holiday House, [2023]
    • 2023-2023
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc+ F 23-154Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Portraits of resistance : activating art during slavery / Jennifer Van Horn.

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    • New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
    • 2022-2022
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 23-72Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Possessing Harriett : a play / Kyle Bass.

    • Text
    • Fabius, New York : Standing Stone Books, 2022.
    • 2022-2022
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 23-973Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • River sing me home / Eleanor Shearer.

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    • New York : Berkley, 2023.
    • 2023-2023
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 23-561Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Master slave, husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom / Ilyon Woo.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
    • 2023-2023
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 23-604Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Nearer my freedom : the interesting life of Olaudah Equiano by himself / Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge.

    • Text
    • Minneapolis : Zest Books, [2023]
    • 2023
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 23-970Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Slavery in Zion : a documentary and genealogical history of black lives and black servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862 / by Amy Tanner Thiriot.

    • Text
    • Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, [2022]
    • 2022-2022
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 23-603Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The odyssey of Phillis Wheatley : a poet's journeys through American slavery and independence / David Waldstreicher.

    • Text
    • New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
    • 2023-2023
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 23-574Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Negro's friend : consisting of anecdotes, designed to exemplify the moral, intellectual, and religious attainments of the African race, and the cruelties and oppressions to which they have been subjected by Europeans.

    • Text
    • London : Sold at the Depository and by Harvey & Darton and other Booksellers, [1830?]
    • 1830
    • 1 Item
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    Text *C p.v. 506 27 titlesSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Descendientes de africanos en la independencia. Volumen 8 / Sergio Antonio Mosquera.

    • Text
    • Cali, Colombia : Universidad del Valle. Programa Editorial, 2022.
    • 2022-
  • Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves / Henry Wiencek.

    • Text
    • New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
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    Text E332.2 .W54 2012Off-site
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  • "Our uncle the major" : a story of New York in 1765 / James Otis.

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    • New York : Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, [1901], ©1901.
    • 1901-1901
    • 1 Item
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    Text PS2156.K3 O85 1901gOff-site
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  • Die aanslag op die slaweskip Meermin, 1766 : Dan Sleigh & Piet Westra.

    • Text
    • Kaapstad : Africana Uitgewers, 2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
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    Text DT1813 .S54 2012gOff-site
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  • As múltiplas faces da escravidão : o espaço econômico do ouro e sua elite pluriocupacional na formação da sociedade mineira setecentista, c.1711- c. 1756 / Carlos Leonardo Kelmer Mathias.

    • Text
    • Rio de Janeiro : Mauad X : FAPERJ, 2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
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