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Cary, North Carolina: Oxford University Press. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 2002. First Printing. Hard Cover. 203 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.6: KB#006570: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Printing Number Line (1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Dustjacket has small edge cut. "Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the Gospel teachings of brotherhood and charity? Slaves were considered the sexual property of their owners: what was the status within the Church of enslaved women and young male slaves who were their owners' sexual playthings? Is there any reason to believe that Christians shied away from the use of corporal punishments so common among ancient slave owners? Jennifer A. Glancy brings…
Read More Our Islands and their people as seen with camera and pencil by Joes De Olivares the noted Author and War correspodent - 1899
by Joes De Olivares the noted Author and War correspodent
Our Islands and their people as seen with camera and pencil
by Joes De Olivares the noted Author and War correspodent
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Slavery In Early Christianity
by Glancy, Jennifer A.
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Running for Our Lives
by Glennette Tilley Turner (Barnes and Nobles Autographed Copy)
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There is a Barnes and Nobles Autographed Copy sticker on the front end page. On the half title page is the inscription, "To My friend Pauline, I was so delighted that you and Louise honored me by coming to the signing of this book that has been in the making much (2/3) of the time we've known each other. I so appreciate you and your family's friendship and interest in my work. Best Wishes Glenette, May 28, 1994."The book is in Near Fine condition. Then dust jacket is fair with tears and small pieces missing on the backside and top and bottom edges of the spine. This book is about the underground railroad and is written for ages 5 - 7.
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Creoledom: A Study of the Development of Freetown Society
by Porter, Arthur T.
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London UK, Oxford University Press, 1963, hardcover, xii-151 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Clean and firmly bound, slight spine-end and corner wear, lean to spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, wear to folds and head and heel of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. An historical and social study of the Creole society of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Illustrated with 4 black-&-white plates and 6 maps including a fold-out map of Sierra Leone showing Ethnic Boundaries. Appended; Handbill recruiting the black poor, Bibliography, Index.
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Punch Me to the Gods: A Memoir
by Broome, Brian
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New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001. SIGNED on dedication page: "Thank you! / Brian Broome". This debut memoir is a NYT Editor's Pick and the winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. "In his thoroughly electric debut...Brian Broome will shatter your heart. Then make you laugh, sweat and cringe. And-all while eviscerating stereotypes and expanding notions of Black masculinity and queer identity-he'll shatter your heart again, then carefully, exquisitely, piece it back together."-Shelf Awareness Review. 9780358439103. New in like dust jacket w/ "signed by the author", in protective cover.
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Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion
by Charles H. Wright
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United States: Balamp Pub Co, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Book has one page with a small wrinkle, else clean and tight, jacket has some paper-loss on the backcover, else clean. Jacket is not price-clipped.
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Slavery In Early Christianity
by Glancy, Jennifer A.
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Cary, North Carolina: Oxford University Press. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 2002. First Printing. Hard Cover. 203 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.6: KB#006570: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Printing Number Line (1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Dustjacket has small edge cut. "Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the Gospel teachings of brotherhood and charity? Slaves were considered the sexual property of their owners: what was the status within the Church of enslaved women and young male slaves who were their owners' sexual playthings? Is there any reason to believe that Christians shied away from the use of corporal punishments so common among ancient slave owners? Jennifer A. Glancy brings…
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Running for Our Lives
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There is a Barnes and Nobles Autographed Copy sticker on the front end page. On the half title page is the inscription, "To My friend Pauline, I was so delighted that you and Louise honored me by coming to the signing of this book that has been in the making much (2/3) of the time we've known each other. I so appreciate you and your family's friendship and interest in my work. Best Wishes Glenette, May 28, 1994."The book is in Near Fine condition. Then dust jacket is fair with tears and small pieces missing on the backside and top and bottom edges of the spine. This book is about the underground railroad and is written for ages 5 - 7.
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Creoledom: A Study of the Development of Freetown Society
by Porter, Arthur T.
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London UK, Oxford University Press, 1963, hardcover, xii-151 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Clean and firmly bound, slight spine-end and corner wear, lean to spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, wear to folds and head and heel of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. An historical and social study of the Creole society of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Illustrated with 4 black-&-white plates and 6 maps including a fold-out map of Sierra Leone showing Ethnic Boundaries. Appended; Handbill recruiting the black poor, Bibliography, Index.
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Punch Me to the Gods: A Memoir
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New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001. SIGNED on dedication page: "Thank you! / Brian Broome". This debut memoir is a NYT Editor's Pick and the winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. "In his thoroughly electric debut...Brian Broome will shatter your heart. Then make you laugh, sweat and cringe. And-all while eviscerating stereotypes and expanding notions of Black masculinity and queer identity-he'll shatter your heart again, then carefully, exquisitely, piece it back together."-Shelf Awareness Review. 9780358439103. New in like dust jacket w/ "signed by the author", in protective cover.
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Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion
by Charles H. Wright
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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"Malungu, Ngoma vem!" África encoberta e descoberta no Brasil (Cadernos do Museu da Escravatura No.1)
by Robert W. Slenes
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Rare! Luanda: Angola. Ministério da Cultura, 1995. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Pages and cover securely held by one clean staple. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp, with slight reading wear to foreedge. Many B&W photos/illustrations. 24 pages. Not from a library. Published by the Angolan National Museum of Slavery and National Institute of Cultural Patrimony on the 20th anniversary of Angola's independence.
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Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun
by Roark Bradford
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ( Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man)". 264 pages.. Solid. Clean. Flyleaf detached from title page, but all pages still bound. A great collector's item and a rare find. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A.B. Walker. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.
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Gone With The Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."
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The Temple Of My Familiar
by Alice Walker
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Alice Walker. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR. Copyright 1989 by Alice Walker. Thorndyke, Maine. Hardcover, ISBN 9780896219298. Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1990. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Large print. 595 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾.
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Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968
by Schoener, Allon (editor)
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As new except for tiny spot on side exterior page edges and light surface scratching on the back cover. 255 pages. 8.5" X 11" X .5" (22cm X 28cm X 1.3cm) History of Harlem as cultural center. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photos of people and cultural ephemera like playbills, tickets to the Cotton Club, and advertising banners about the importance of Black Santa. Part of a project with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Nonfiction. History. Photography. African American History. Regional History- New York.
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Black Ladies
by Uwe Ommer
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Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.Jacket like new, slight shelf wear.
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A photographic portrait of African women.
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Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion
by Charles H. Wright
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Dick Gregory's Bible Tales, with Commentary
by Richard "Dick" Claxton Gregory (1932-2017)
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187 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards and faux signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. Edited by James R McGraw. First edition. Richard "Dick" Gregory was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, motivational speaker, author and actor. He became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences. Condition: Lightly soiled. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped else better than very good in like jacket.
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The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X
by T'Shaka, Oba
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T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.
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