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A large illustrated four-fold brochure that serves to answer the question: Why did slavery take root in New England? Many Americans think of slavery as solely a Southern institution. In fact, the American slave trade was centered in New England, and enslaved people labored throughout the region from the mid-1600s through the American Revolution.Published by our friends at The Robbins House.
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A large illustrated four-fold brochure that serves to answer the question: Who actually freed the slaves? By 1837, when Susan Robbins Garrison became a founding member of the Concord Female Antislavery Society, black abolitionists already had a long history of demanding freedom and racial justice on their own terms. Published by our friends at The Robbins House.
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A large illustrated four-fold brochure that serves to answer the question: What were they fighting for? Fighting in the American army was just one avenue of escape offered by the Revolution from a lifetime of slavery. Published by our friends at The Robbins House.
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A large illustrated four-fold brochure that serves to answer the question: How free were free people of color? For free black men and women, life in 19th-century New England was one of sharp contradictions. The final abolition of slavery throughout New England did not occur till the mid-1800s. Published by our friends at The Robbins House.
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A large illustrated four-fold brochure that serves to answer the question: What is Ellen's legacy? "I feel as though I ought to strive to maintain my rights." Documents Ellen's life from Concord, Massachusetts, to Pasadena, California. Published by our friends at The Robbins House.
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A large illustrated four-fold brochure that serves to answer the question: What did Ellen Garrison Jackson accomplish? Tells the story of a woman who challenged racism wherever she found it. Published by our friends at The Robbins House.
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Traces the history of anti-black racism -- with a special focus on Concord and Massachusetts -- from the early 1800s through the May 2020 death of George Floyd in Minnesota. Includes a special sidebar defining how the words "race" and "racism" have been used and interpreted, throughout the years. Published by our friends at the Robbins House.
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About 80 quotations gleaned from the speeches and writings of Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968). Includes a brief bio.
Applewood Books, 2004. Hardcover, 32 pp.
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Read Frederick Douglass's impassioned speech on the subject of slavery and patriotism.
Applewood Books, 2023. Hardcover, 60 pp.
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A selection of key quotations from activist Malcolm X (1925-1965). Includes a two-page biography.
Applewood, 2024. Hardcover, 32 pp.
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A selection of key quotations from former slave and 19th-century activist Frederick Douglass (1817-1895). Includes a two-page biography.
Applewood Books, 2024. Hardcover, 32 pp.
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Edgefield County, South Carolina, has been home to generations of Lanhams, dating back to slavery. Given their family name by slaveholders, the Lanhams created a personal legacy of grit and affection even in the midst of hard times. Here we meet a number of these determined people, including the young Drew, who falls in love with the natural world around him. This is at once a moving memoir and an exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South and in America today. Drew Lanham has been named the winner of the Henry David Thoreau Prize for literary excellence in nature writing in 2024.
Milkweed Editions, 2016. Paperback, 216 pp.
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Some Americans cling
desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the
election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact,
racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more
insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped
from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark
reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed,
disseminated, and enshrined in American society. The life
stories of five major American intellectuals offer a window into the
contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between
racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas
Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar
W.E.B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how
and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have
challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.
Contrary
to popular conceptions, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred.
Instead, they were devised and honed by some of the most brilliant minds of
each era. These intellectuals used their brilliance to justify and rationalize
deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation’s racial disparities
in everything from wealth to health. And while racist ideas are easily produced
and easily consumed, they can also be discredited. In shedding much-needed
light on the murky history of racist ideas, this book offers us the tools we need to expose them -- and in the process, gives us reason
to hope. Ibram X. Kendi is The Thoreau Society's Dana S. Brigham Keynote Speaker for 2021.
Bold Type Books, 2017. Paperback, 608 pp.
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A compact volume that offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass. Edited by renowned scholars John Stauffer and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this book includes examples of the full range of Douglass's work as a writer, orator, newspaper editor, politician, and civil rights leader. Contains the complete Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, as well as extracts from My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, and much more.
Penguin Books, 2016. Paperback, 599 pp.
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While racial capitalism has attempted to sever their connection to the sacred earth for four hundred years,Black people have long seen the land and water as family, treating the earth as a home essential. Leah Penniman is among those who persist in recovering their ancient practices. Here she reminds us that ecological humility is an intrinsic part of our cultural heritage.
Amistad, HarperCollins, 2023. Hardcover, 290 pp.
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Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism -- and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In this book, Kendi takes us through a widening circle of antiracist ideas -- from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities -- that will help us see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Ibram X. Kendi is The Thoreau Society's Dana S. Brigham Keynote Speaker for 2021. One World, 2019. Hardcover, 320 pp.
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Presents in a
vivid fashion the little known story of slavery in Concord, and the
history of the black families there from the time before the Revolution
throgh the time of the Civil War. Thoreau's famous Walden Woods was
home to several generations of freed slaves and their children. Shows
us another side of the history of the birthplace of the Revolution and
the home of the Transcendentalists. This paperback edition contains a new preface, where Lemire reflects on relevant legacy developments that have taken place in Concord since the hardback's publication. This book was reviewed in Thoreau Society Bulletin 310, Summer 2020, p. 8-9.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Paperback, 220 pp.
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The story begins in 1619, when the White Lion brings "some 20 and odd Negroes" to the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United Sates. It takes us to the present, as African Americans continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history. Editors Kendi and Blain have assembled 90 writers each who explore brief periods of that four-hundred-year span. This is a history that illuminates our past and gives us new ways of thinking about our future.
One World, 2021. Hardcover, 504 pp.
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Three of Stowe's books in one handy volume: Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Minister's Wooing, and Oldtown Folks. Includes chronology.
Library of America, 1982. Hardcover, 1478 pp.
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