American Antislavery Writings

Colonial Beginnings To Emancipation

EDITED BY JAMES C. BAKER
Th is wide ranging collection of American writings protesting slavery is the first collection to take the full measure of a body of literature that spans nearly two centuries and, exceptionally for its time, includes writers black and white, male and female. Writings from 1688 through 1865 include poetry, fiction, song, correspondence, speeches, and essays from a wide range of well and lesser known writers. While the pages of this volume are tissue thin, the book is small enough to hold comfortably in one hand, is very well bound, and contains color illustrations.

Library of America 2011 963 Cloth

$40.00 (in stock)

Back To Africa

Benjamin Coates And The Colonization Movement In America, 1848-1880

EDITED BY EMMA J. LAPSANSKY-WERNER, MARGARET HOPE BACON
Benjamin Coates was one of the best-known white supportersof African colonization in 19th century America. A Quaker from Philadelphia, he was committed to helping Black Americans relocate to West Africa. At the heart of the volume is a collection of over 150 recently recovered letters, eitherwritten by Coates or addressed to him between 1848 and 1880. Lapsansky and Bacon have provided a far-reaching essay that places them in the context. They led a team of young scholars who annotated the letters. This book provide new insight into the alliances and divisions within the antislavery movement, making it essential reading for every student of black studies or Quaker history.

Penn State Press 2007 368 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Beneath The Blazing Sun (098)

BY REX ELLIS
SECONDHAND-out of print.In Good condition. From African roots to the present day, scholar and storyteller Rex Ellis animates the African-American experience, weaving the strands of African folklore, early American history, and contemporary interpretations into a rich quilt. His stories spin a thread from the Windward Coast of West Africa to the shores of Jamestown and beyond. He uses storytelling as both a historical teaching tool and a method for dealing with controversial subjects.

August House 176 PP. Paper

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Black Abolitionists

BY BENJAMIN QUARLES
Black abolitionists introduces us to the many overlooked African Americans who were active in the movement, preaching, writing, guiding and travelling the world to bring an end to the despicable practice of slavery. A reprint of the then groundbreaking 1969 book but still as relevant as ever today.

Da Capo 1990 320 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Black Presence In Pennsylvania

Making It Home

BY EMMA LAPSANSKY
Starting with the details of some of William Penn's slaves this little pamphlet makes an excellent introduction to the troubled history of African Americans in Pennsylvania. Quakers are often mentioned in the progress towards equal rights.

Pennsylvania Historical Association 2001 46 PP Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Can We All Get Along (8331)

P MCCLAIN
SECONDHAND, tatty but readable paperback. The second edition of this widely acclaimed text has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in America's ongoing struggle with racial issues. Here, Paula McClain and Joseph Stewart combine traditional elements of political science analysis-history, Constitutional theory, institutions, political behavior, and policy actors-with a thoroughgoing survey of the political status of four major groups: African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and American Indians.

Westview 1999 203 PP. Paper

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The Debt

What America Owes To Blacks

BY RANDALL ROBINSON
"I have tried in these pages to sketch the outlines of a story that stretches from the dawn of civilization to the present. The dilemma of blacks in the world cannot possibly be understood without taking the long view of history. My intent is to stimulate, not sate. To pose the question. To invite the debate. To cause America to compensate, after three and a half centuries, for a long-avoided wrong." - from the introduction

Plume 2000 262 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Delayed Justice For Sale

BY ASHLEY DICKERSON
The astonishing life story of Mahala Ashley Dickerson, Alabama's first black female attorney. Told simply and eloquently, it is a story of almost unbelievable courage in the face of adversity. The daughter of country schoolteachers, Mahala graduated cum laude from Fisk University. Then, at Howard Law School, she encounters some of the leading legal minds of her time, such as Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood Robinson, Howard Jenkins, James Washington, George Hayes, Willian Hastie and John Bussey. Launching her career soon afterward, she is soon setting precedents and scoring major victories in Alabama, Indiana, and Alaska.

Acres 1998 233 PP. Paper

$12.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Dismantling Racism

The Continuing Challenge To White America

BY JOSEPH BARNDT
This book presents a tough, demanding message on facing and dismantling racism in our hearts and institutions to build a just, multiracial, multicultural society.

Augsburg 1991 179 PP. Paper

$15.99 (in stock)

Equality

36th Annual J Barnard Walton Lecture 2nd Edition 2006

BY DEBORAH ANN SAUNDERS
"Don't go home the way you came." The 1999 Walton Lecture challenges Friends to live our testimonies, especially the testimony of equality. The author describes a personal and dynamic path inviting us to move out of our comfort zone and truly make our meetings reflect diversity.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2006 36 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Fit For Freedom, Not For Friendship - Paperback

Quakers, African Americans And The Myth Of Racial Justice

BY DONNA MCDANIEL AND VANESSA JULYE
There is a common misconception that, because of their belief in equality, most Quakers assisted fugitive slaves and involved themselves in civil rights activism. While there were Friends committed to ending enslavement and post-enslavement injustices, Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship reveals that racism has been as insidious, complex, and pervasive among Friends as it has been generally among people of European descent. The book documents the spiritual and practical impacts of discrimination in the Religious Society of Friends in the expectation that understanding the truth of our past is vital to achieving a diverse, inclusive community in the future.

QuakerPress of FGC 2009 576 PP. Paper

$28.00 (in stock)

Gentle Invaders

Quaker Women Educators And Racial Issues During The Civil War And Reconstruction

BY LINDA SELLECK
Study of a diverse group of Quaker women inspired by God and a belief in human equality. Looks into the roadblocks as well as the victories over the culture of that time.

Friends United Press 1995 312 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

The Heart Of Whiteness

Confronting Race, Racism And White Privilege

BY ROBERT JENSEN
This book is both a cautionary tale for those white people who believe that they have transcended racism, and also an expression of the hope for genuine transcendence. "Very few white writers have been able to point out the pathological nature of white privilege and supremacy with the eloquence of Robert Jensen. In The Heart of Whiteness, Jensen demonstrates not only immense wisdom on the issue of race, but does so in the kind of direct and accessible fashion that separates him from virtually any other academic scholar, or journalist, writing on these subjects today." -Tim Wise, author, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

City Lights Books 2005 124 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Help Or Hindrance (83)

DANIEL HAMERMESH
SECONDHAND, readable hardback with Dustjacket. Help or Hindrance? The Economic Implications of Immigration for African Americans. Help or Hindrance? offers compelling evidence that although immigration has in many ways benefited parts of American society, it has had a cumulatively negative effect on the economic prospects of African Americans. In concluding chapters, this volume provides an overview of possible policy interventions and evaluates them within the current social and political climate. Because the long-term impact of current immigration on social welfare remains unknown solutions are far from clear.

Rsage 1998 390 PP. Cloth

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Hope In The Unseen

BY RON SUSKIND
As an honor student walking the gauntlet of sneers and threats at his crime-infested high school in Washington, D.C., Cedric Jennings achieved the impossible: a 4.02 grade-point average and acceptance into Brown University. Suskind won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his stories about Jennings and now expands them into this full-length, nonfiction narrative.

Broadway Books 1999 390 PP. Paper

$15.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

How To Be Black

BY BARATUNDE THURSTON
Have you ever been called "too black" or "not black enough"? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this humorous book is for you. Raised by a pro-black, Pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington, DC, and educated at Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University, Baratunde Thurston has over thirty years' experience being black. Now, through stories of his politically inspired Nigerian name, the heroics of his hippie mother, the murder of his drug-abusing father, and other revelatory black details, he shares with readers of all colors his wisdom and expertise in how to be black.

Harper 2012 254 PP. Paper

$14.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Just Like Us

The True Story Of Four Mexican Girls Coming Of Age In America

BY HELEN THORPE
Quaker author. A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Helen Thorpe takes us deep into the American subculture of Mexican immigrants. We meet four girls on the eve of their senior prom, in Denver, Colorado. This brilliant narrative journalism is a vivid coming-of-age story about girlhood, friendship, and, most of all, identity, what it means to fake an identity, steal an identity, or inherit an identity from one's parents and country.

Scribner 2011 394 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Learning To Be White

Money, Race And God In America

BY THANDEKA
"A powerful study of the world of `whiteness' out of the world of shame.. This is a strong book, a book which all readers - whether they understand themselves as `white' or not - should read." - Sander L. Gilman

Continuum 2002 169 PP Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Left To Tell

Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan Holocaust

BY IMMACULEE ILIBAGAZIA
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her family was brutally murdered along with nearly a million other Rwandans. Incredibly, she survived and for 91 days, she and 7 other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor. Here she discovered the power of prayer, shed her fear of death and forged a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from hiding having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love-a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family's killers.

Hay House 2009 202 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Let This Voice Be Heard

Anthony Benezet, Father Of Atlantic Abolitionism

BY MAURICE JACKSON
Anthony Benezet (1713-84), recognized by the leaders of the antislavery movement as its founder, transformed Quaker antislavery sentiment into a broad-based transatlantic movement, he translated ideas from diverse sources - Enlightenment philosophy, African travel narratives, Quakerism and the Bible -into concrete action.. At the same time, Benezet's correspondents, included Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, Abbe Raynal, Granville Sharp, and John Wesley and gave his ideas an audience in the highest intellectual and political circles.

Univ of Pennsylvania Press 2008 376 PP. Cloth

$45.00 (in stock)

Lifting The White Veil

An Exploration Of White American Culture In A Multiracial Context

BY JEFF HITCHCOCK
This is an enlightening, and often revelatory work. The main focus is on the development and current characteristics of the white subculture in the United States. Hitchcock is white, married to a black woman, and worked many years in the field of diversity training and racial reconciliation. He gives white Americans the information they need to start to move beyond ingrained beliefs toward a clearer and more accurate understanding of our society and relations with other races. For those of us who would like to face and overcome the racial exclusiveness incorporated in our culture and traditions this book provides inspiration and tools to move that work forward.

Crandall, Dostie 2002 262 PP Cloth

$22.95 (in stock)

The Light Of Nature And The Law Of God

Antislavery In Ontario 1833-1877

BY ALLEN STOUFFER
From its beginnings in the early 19th century, the Canadian anti-slavery movement was centered in Ontario, they sought to enlist public support in the growing international crusade by organizing antislavery societies, and, through other institutions such as the Elgin Association, Canadian abolitionists responded to the immediate needs of the often destitute fugitive slaves who crossed the border. He shows that the leaders of Canadian anti-slavery were mostly immigrants from Britain who had been deeply involved in antislavery in their homeland. Much mention of Canadian (and US) Quakers.

Louisiana State Univ Press 1992 267 PP. Cloth

$8.50 (in stock)

Masked Gods, Navaho & Ceremonialism (44)

BY FRANK WATERS
SECONDHAND. Fair condition hardback, readable but with scratched cloth binding. As a preface has a brief history of the Navajo and Pueblo Indians. This classic work studies their tribal ceremonialism and its influence upon everyday life. "Providing deep insights into the wisdom of the Native Americans of the American Southwest. Reading whet these native people knew decades ago puts our present superficialities to shame."

University of New Mexico Press 1950 435 PP. Cloth

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Means And Ends In American Abolitionism

Garrison And His Critics On Strategy And Tactics 1834-1850

BY AILEEN KRADITOR
Focuses on arguments over the role of women in the Anti-Slavery Society, over religion, and over political action. She sees a struggle between "respectability" and radical action which continues to reverberate. "From first to last this lucid, important book challenges preconceptions. Obviously Professor Kraditor intends to provoke critical reexamination of many points she raises, and in this she is brilliantly successful.... Her book is a fruitful exploration into the history of a great movement."--Harold M. Hyman, Book World. "Original, perceptive, provocative."--American Historical Review

Ivan Dee 1989 311 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Miles Lassiter (circa 1777-1850)

An Early African-american Quaker From Lassiter Mill, Randolph County, North Carolina

BY MARGO LEE WILLIAMS
Although antebellum African Americans were sometimes allowed to attend Quaker services, they were almost never admitted to full "meeting" membership, as was Miles Lassiter. His story illuminates the unfolding of the 19th-century color line into the 20th. Margo Williams had only a handful of stories and a few names her mother remembered from her childhood about her family's home in Asheboro, N Carolina. Her research would soon help her to make contact with long lost relatives and a pilgrimage "home" with her mother in 1982. Little did she know she would discover a large loving family and a Quaker ancestor--a Black Quaker ancestor.

Backintyme 2011 130 PP. Paper

$13.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Miner's Canary

Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy

BY LANI GUINIER AND GERALD TORRES
"'To my friends, I look like a black boy. To white people I don't know, I look like a wanna-be punk. To the cops I look like a criminal,' explains Lani Guinier's 14-year-old biracial son. Mixing myriad personal examples with hard data and analysis of biased news reports, Guinier and Torres cogently and forcefully argue that `color-blind' solutions are not `attaining racial justice and ensuring a healthy democratic process.' Arguing for a multifaceted conception of 'biological race, politcal race, historical race, cultural race,' their purpose here is to find terms for discussing `the lived experience of race in America' and for moving toward a society that values...difference."-PW

Harvard Univ. 2003 392 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration In An Age Of Colorblindness

BY MICHELE ALEXANDER
"The New Jim Crow" was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book is available. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination--employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits are suddenly legal. We have sold 100's to Quakers already.

New Press 2012 336 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

The New Jim Crow Hardcover

Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness

BY MICHELLE ALEXANDER
Former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place confronting mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. suggested price $27.95 Our price $25.15

New Press 2010 290 PP. Cloth

$27.95 (in stock)

Nonviolence And Racial Justice

Talk Given At The Fgc Gathering June 1958 In Cape May, New Jersey

BY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Those who heard Martin Luther King Jr. speak on "Nonviolence and Racial Justice" at Cape May in 1958 gave him a standing ovation at the end of his remarks. His words, though given at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, call to us today: "Now I cannot say that violence never wins any victories; it occasionally wins victories. Nations often receive their independence through the use of violence. But I can say this, that that is all it does. Violence only achieves temporary victory; but it never can achieve ultimate peace. It creates many more social problems than it solves. And violence ends up defeating itself. SPECIAL OFFER PAMPLET & CD."

Quaker Press of FGC 1958 40 MIN+PAMPH Audio

$2.00 (in stock)

On Doing Good (9217)

The Quaker Experiment

BY GERALD JONAS
SECONDHAND COPY - Good condition book, but poor dust jacket. A look at Quaker work with Native Americans and with slavery, an early attempt to look at Quaker contributions in these areas subsequently reexamined in Fit for Freedom. He then looks at the work of AFSC in more recent years.

Scibners 1971 175 PP. Cloth

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