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Captives and Countrymen: Barbary Slavery and the American Public 1785-1816 (hc) - Peskin

First published in 1808, Horrors of Slavery is the tale of one such sailor, captured during the United States's first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War.

When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore St

In this pathbreaking account, Billy Coleman uses the history of American music to illuminate the relationship between elite power and the people from the early national period to the Civil War.

Steven Ujifusa tells the story of a handful of cutthroat competitors who raced to build the fastest, finest, most profitable clipper ships to carry their precious cargo to American shores.

The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home (pb) - Bell

Women in Clothes (pb) - Heti

The Curated Closet Workbook (pb) - Rees

Injustice on the Eastern Shore: Race and the Hill Murder Trial (pb) - Hemstock

Abandoned Baltimore: Southside (pb) - Hall

Heart & Soul: The Story of America and African Americans