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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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In the aftermath of the 2006 massacre of nineteen people in a Swedish village, Judge Birgitta Roslin, a granddaughter of two of the victims, discovers the nineteenth-century diary of a gang leader that reveals the case's eerie connections to the abuse of Chinese slave workers.
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Liverpool, 1752. William Kemp has lost a fortune in cotton speculation, and must recoup his losses if his son is to marry the wealthy woman whom he loves. His last resort is a slave ship, one that will take him to the Guinea coast, where he will trade for human cargo, then embark on the infamous Middle Passage. When disease ravages the ship and the African prisoners mutiny, Williams profit-seeking venture falls apart. Slaves and sailors alike...
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Sacketts volume 3
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English
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Vin and Yance Sackett dare to rescue a settler's beautiful daughter from ruthless men during a threatened Indian War.
7) Dark watch
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English
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Japanese shipping magnates ask for Cabrillo's help in dealing with pirates trolling the waters of Asia.
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Mamur Zapt volume 17
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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After opening an unexpected bride box, the Pasha finds there is a connection with practices long thought dead, meanwhile the head of the secret police investigates a little girl found traveling under a train from Luxor.
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English
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Tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce, and his extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a victory achieved just three days before his death in...
10) Skin game
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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
In this comedy, meet Quincy and Jason, two likable swindlers who've come up with a way to make a bundle by bamboozling slave owners. Posing as master and slave, Quincy and Jason ride into backwater prairie towns where, after Quincy intones and Jason moans, Jason is sold to the highest bidder. Then Quincy springs him loose and they split town, split the cash and head down the road looking for the next sucker.
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Alex Cross volume 9
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English
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At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a...
14) Middle passage
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In 1830, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave, jumps aboard a slave ship leaving New Orleans en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri.
15) Good man Friday
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Benjamin January volume 12
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Benjamin January's search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers in 1838 New Orleans.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, as a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern capitalism...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Launched in 1716 to ply the Triangular Trade route, the Whydah was designed to be fast and to hold large amounts of cargo, both material and human. Captain Prince had completed the sale of slaves brought from Africa to the Caribbean and had turned the Whydah toward England laden with riches when his ship was overtaken by one of the most successful pirates of the time. Black Sam Bellamy sought not only fortune but a ship with a large capacity to carry...
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