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The Children
by David Halberstam
DAVID HALBERSTAM graduated from Harvard, where he had served as managing editor of the daily Harvard Crimson. It was 1955, a year after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools. Halberstam went south and began his career as the one reporter on the West Point, Mississippi, Daily Times Leader. He was fired after ten months there and went to work for The Nashville Tennessean. When the sit-ins broke out in Nashville in February 1960, he was assigned...
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Bury the Chains
by Adam Hochschild
From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. This...
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No Easy Day
by Mark; Maurer, Kevin Owen
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group — commonly known as SEAL Team Six — has been...
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Social Issues, Problems & Crime Books & Ephemera
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
by Hochschild, Adam
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
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SGD 13.79
One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001
by Easton Press
Easton: Easton Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/new in publisher's shrink wrap.. 4to. 193 pp. First Easton Press edition. Color photos throughout. Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines.
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SGD 68.94
Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities
by Anna Deavere Smith; Cornel West, Foreword
New York: Anchor, 1993. Softcover. Fine in wraps. 8vo. Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, this is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict.Ê The work was turned into an acclaimed off-Broadway play.
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SGD 48.25
American Pictures: A Personal Journey Through the American Underclass
by HOLDT, Jacob
Denmark: American Pictures Foundation, 1985. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Good. Large octavo. 8 x 9.5 in. 304 pp. Good in original pictorial wrappers, some creasing to spine and one corner.
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SGD 62.04
Letters From the United States, Cuba and Canada
by Murray, Amelia M
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Reprint. Very Good. Brown cloth boards, 410pp.
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SGD 24.82
PROCEEDINGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, HELD AT COLUMBIA, 5TH AND 6TH OF MAY, 1856, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING DELEGATES TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, TO MEET IN CINCINNATI IN JUNE
by South Carolina
Columbia: R.W. Gibbes, 1856. Original printed wrappers [light wear, ink note on front wrap]. Stitched, 29pp. Scattered light to moderate foxing, blank inner corners clipped at the top. Good+. A rare record of the proceedings of this Convention, which voted to support President Franklin Pierce, the quintessential 'Northern Man with Southern Principles,' a type beloved by 1850's Democrats, for a second term. Pierce's stand in favor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act should be rewarded. For the sake of "our...
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SGD 827.22
American Slavery 1619-1877
by KOLCHIN, Peter
New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second printing. 304pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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SGD 27.57
The Keys Book: An Illustrated Story for the Adult Adoptee and the People who Need to Understand Them
by Ruth Monnig
BookBaby, 2021. Hardcover. New. New case wrapped hardcover. 8vo. (8.75 x 0.4 x 8.75 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes sources and bibliography. 96 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This is a short book that attempts to show and explain what it is like to grow up as an adoptee, through illustrations and narrative. It is intended to be a descriptive and helpful tool that sheds light in a light and sometimes humorous fashion, on the serious thoughts and...
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SGD 45.43
The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality
by Lorraine Hansberry
Simon and Schuster, 1964. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. tall case. 4th printing. Some shelfwear. Price scratched out at top right corner.
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SGD 206.80
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story Is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
London: Thomas Bosworth (but Routledge is the name at base of backstrip), 1853. 1st English ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, 595p. plus (4)p. publisher's adverts. Original red cloth. 18cm. Backstrip faded. Cover corners and ends of backstrip rubbed. Gift inscription (initials only) at head of first "Contents" page. Modern booksellers label ("Berkelouw Brothers , Sydney") on lower corner of front pastedown. Scattered minor foxing. Stowe wrote this book to offer documentary proof that cruelties and...
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SGD 241.27
Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror
by Clarke, Richard A
Free Press, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 9.49
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black a Man
by Emmanuel Acho
Macmillan: New York, 2020. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 288 pp. 8vo.
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SGD 48.25
The Slavery Questions Settled. Man-Stealing, Legitimate Servitude, Etc.
by Kingsbury, Harmon
New York: John A. Gray, 1862. Paperback. Very Good. 36p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). No separate wrapper present. 18 cm. Spotting on fore-edge and final page. Kingsbury was a white Cleveland businessman and abolitionist.
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SGD 275.74
![[Women's Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen des weiblichen Vereins für Armen und Krankenpflege..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/706/572/1321572706.0.b.jpg)
[Women's Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen des weiblichen Vereins für Armen und Krankenpflege..
by Amalie Wilhelmine Sieveking (1794-1859)
Hamburg [Germany]: Langhosssche Buchdruckerei, 1839. [1], 63, [1 (blank)]pp. 8vo. Text in German. Self-titled printed wrappers. Surface soil, and stains to exterior; perimeter chips in un-printed areas to wraps; foxing; good. This pamphlet on nursing and charity work by German philanthropist and social reformer Amalie Sieveking (1794-1859) reports on the activities of the Weiblichen Vereins für Armen und Krankenpflege-the Women's Association for the Poor and the Sick. Sieveking founded this nursing and...
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SGD 103.40
Still Needed
by Wascher-James, Sande
Whidbey Island, 2016. Artist's book, one of 10 copies, all on Stonehenge paper for the text (digitally printed) with collaged color photographs of the 8 women and stamps which are on Canson Infinity Rag Photographique, with additional collages of light purple Liberty Lawn fabric; signed and numbered by the author on the colophon. Bound: accordion style, light purple Liberty Lawn fabric over boards at ends, front panel with cut-out and half-tone image of vintage photograph of two women marching in...
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SGD 1,309.76
Legal Representatives of James C. Watson. June 23, 1848. Mr. Daniel, from the Committee of Claims, made the following Report
by U.S. Congress, House of Representatives. Thirtieth Congress-First Session. Report No. 724. Committee of Claims
Paperback. Very Good. Washington: GPO, 1848. 22p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 23 cm. No separate wrapper. A few dark spots and minor foxing. 30th Cong. 1st Sess. House. Report No. 724. Watson made advances to the agent of the Creek Indians for the value of slaves in accordance with an agreement between General Jessup and Creek warriors as an inducement to persuade them to aid in the fight against the Seminoles. The Creeks did their part but the government decided that they shouldn't be...
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SGD 206.80
A Safety Net That Works: Improving Federal Programs for Low-Income Americans (American Enterprise Institute)
by Robert Doar
AEI Press, 2017. Hardcover. New. New hardcover in glossy case wraps. (5.75 x 0.93 x 8.86 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes tables and figures. 262 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This is an edited volume reviewing the major means-tested social programs in the United States. Each author addresses a major program or area, reviewing each area's successes and recommending how to address shortcomings through policy change. In general, our...
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SGD 35.78
The White Slave
by THE STROBRIDGE LITHOGRAPHY COMPANY
Chicago: The Strobridge Lithography Company, 1911. unbound. very good(+). Poster. Lithograph. 26.75" x 36.75". Some repairs to verso, middle right, 4 inch repair. In very good condition. Unlined.<br/><br/> Original poster for a theatrical production of "The White Slave" by Bartley Campbell. The White Slave was Campbell's largest success and was performed on stage for more than 35 years.<br/><br/>
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SGD 413.61
Race
by Terkel, Studs
New Press, 1992. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 8.71
VOYAGES FROM ASIA TO AMERICA
by Müller, Gerhard F
Amsterdam: N.Israel, 1967. paper covered boards. small 4to. paper covered boards. (ii), xliii, 76 pages with 2 plates. Bibliotheca Australiana #26. Facsimile reprint of the 1761 editions of "Voyages From Asia to America, For Completing the Discoveries of the North West Coast of America.," "A Summary of Voyages Made by the Russian's on the Frozen Sea, In Search of a North-East Passage" and "Voyages From Asia to America." With 2 black-and-white plates and 2 fold out maps. Mylar dust wrapper is torn on the...
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SGD 52.39
AMERICAN HISTORICAN AND LITERARY CURIOSITIES; CONSISTING OF FAC-SIMILES OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE EVENTS OF THE REVOLUTION &C, &C
by Smith, John Jay and John F. Watson (editors)
Philadelphia, PA: W. Brotherhead, 1861. original embossed gilt-stamped cloth, later dust jacket. small folio. original embossed gilt-stamped cloth, later dust jacket. unpaginated. Sixth edition. Prefaces to the fifth and sixth editions, table of contents. A collection of 69 plates with facsimile autographs, state papers, portraits, and correspondence relating to the colonial and Revolutionary eras of United States history. Covers rubbed and scuffed, especially at edges. Scattered foxing, First five...
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SGD 198.53
Review of Pamphlets on Slavery and Colonization. First Published in the Quarterly Christian Spectator, for March, 1833
by Bacon, Leonard, 1802-1881
New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1833. Second Separate edition [so stated]. Paperback. Good. 24p. Pamphlet. 23 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Foxing (fairly heavy on title-leaf, light elsewhere). Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. No separate wrapper present. Bacon was one of the leading lights of Congregationalism during his lifetime. This is Bacon's closely argued dismissal of the criticisms of Garrison and others of the schemes of the American Colonization Society.
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SGD 137.87
PILGRIMAGE OF ROBERT LANGTON, TRANSCRIBED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
by Blackie, E.M
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924. paper spine label. Rogers, Bruce. cloth-backed boards. paper spine label. xxviii, 48, (2) pages. Limited to 755 copies (Warde no.197). Exlibrary copy with markings. Minor shelfwear. Printed in Caslon, Cloister Italic and Black-letter to be a facsimile of the original 16th century travelogue which describes Langton's trip to Europe. The typography is by the notable American book designer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), who "was appreciated in his lifetime. In...
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SGD 31.71
![KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT I JOSIAH RAMSAY SR. [also sometimes Ramsey] OF THE COUNTY OF CALLAWAY IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI, FROM MOTIVES OF BENEVOLENCE, AND HUMANITY HAVE MANUMITTED AND DO HEREBY MANUMIT AND SET FREE FROM SLAVERY MY NEGRO MAN PHILIP, EPHRAIM, GEORGE, JERRY, ARCHY, TIMOTHY & REUBEN, MY NEGRO WOMEN AMY, ROSY, FLORA & RHODY, & MY NEGRO CHILDREN LEWIS, SAMUEL, MARY, FRANK, STARK, LEAH, JENNY, BETSY, MARY, EMELINE, MELFORD, AMERICA, SARAH, HETTY ANN, & JACK, AND I DO HEREBY GIVE, GRANT AND RELEASE UNTO THE SAID NEGROES ALL MY RIGHT, TITLE AND CLAIM OF IN AND TO THEIR PERSONS, LABOUR AND SERVICES, AND OF IN AND TO THE ESTATE AND PROPERTY WHICH THEY MAY HEREAFTER ACQUIRE AND OBTAIN ... THE ABOVE DEED IS MADE WITH THIS CONDITION, HOWEVER, THAT ALL THE ABOVE NAMED NEGROES MANUMITTED AND SET FREE AS AFORESAID, WHO ARE UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS SHALL BE BOUND OUT TO SERVICE UNTIL THEY ARRIVE AT THE AGE OF TWENTY ONE YEARS ... THIS DEED HOWEVER IS NOT TO TAKE EFFECT UNTIL AFTER MY DEATH](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/825/024/1448024825.0.m.jpg)
