Kachur, Matthew

Summary: Covers such topics as the beginning of slavery in North America, the development of slavery in Central and South America, the Commercial Revolution and its impact on slavery, and the international slave trade.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts On File 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 KAC

Mann, Charles C.

Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909.08 MAN

Butler-Ngugi, Anitra

Summary: "In 2019, the remains of the Clotilda were discovered in the Mobile River. The discovery of the last slave ship helped document the history of Africatown-a community built by Africans who had been illegally brought to Mobile, Alabama, on that ship in 1860 and enslaved. But for more than 160 years, the people of Africatown have been preserving their own history and culture-and fighting for a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.362 BUT