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• From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin, ISBN 0375406719 - This is the dramatic, exciting, authoritative story of the experiences of African Americans from the time they left Africa to their continued struggle for equality at the end of the twentieth century. Since its original publication in 1947, From Slavery to Freedom has stood a...
• Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington, ISBN 0451527542 - A MAN WHO OVERCAME THE BONDS OF SLAVERY TO BECOME A SPOKESMAN FOR HIS PEOPLE. Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful and persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the forces of racial prejudice at a time when such behavior from a blac...
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - An earnest attempt to depict the harsh realities of slavery while lamenting the passage of the idealized South, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an extravagant historical drama and, at a cost of $1.8 million, was one of the most expensive films of the silent era. Since it publi...
• Biography: Frederick Douglass - As a young man, he experienced the brutality of slavery firsthand. As an outspoken leader of the abolitionist movement, he became one of the most powerful voices in American history. "Frederick Douglass" inadvertently found his calling while giving an impromptu speech...
• Freedom in My Heart: Voices from the United States National Slavery Museum - This unparalleled companion volume uses the remarkable artifacts, images, and documents of the United States National Slavery Museum to trace the entire history of slavery in North America, from the societies of ancient Africa to the repercussions still faced by Americans today...
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ISBN 0440222281 - Born a slave in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential and distinguished African American of the nineteenth century. As an abolitionist, newspaper publisher, orator and statesman, Douglass dedicated his life to the triumph of freedom over...
• Spartacus (Mini-Series) (Widescreen) - In 72 B.C. the Roman Empire swept through Europe, conquering countries and selling their citizens into slavery. One slave dared to take a stand: "Spartacus". After witnessing his father's brutal murder and being sold into slavery, Spartacus (Goran Visnjic) vows to one...
• Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South - Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South
• King Maker, The (Widescreen) - John Rhys-Davies ("The Lord Of The Rings" Trilogy, "Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade") and Gary Stretch ("World Trade Center", "Alexander") star in this epic adventure set in the Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya, a Thai kingdom that existed fr...
• Be the Change: Your Guide to Freeing Slaves and Changing the World - Hunter is the global student spokesperson for The Amazing Change, a social justice campaign that inspires teens to become involved with the effort to end slavery around the globe. Statistically, more people are bound in slavery today than at any point in history.
• La Fragancia de la Flor del Cafe - With this novel, author Ana Veloso takes us to Brazil at the end of the 1800?s. The story tells of the forbidden love affair between a beautiful, intelligent and independent woman ?born to rich feudal coffee growers, and a journalist whose ideals make him an advocate for the ab...
• Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together - Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana "in the 1960s"; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen years on the streets of Dallas, Texas. No longer a slave, Denver's life was still hopeless-until God moved. First...
• Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne F. Rockwell, ISBN 0679891862 - A powerful picture book biography of one of the abolitionist movement's most compelling voices. Sojourner Truth traveled the country in the latter half of the 19th century, speaking out against slavery. She told of a slave girl who was sold three times by age 13, who was beat...
• The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina by David S. Cecelski, ISBN 0807849723 - The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, "The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of N...
• The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West - Born into slavery, Bass Reeves became the most successful US Marshal of the Wild West. Many "heroic lawmen" of the Wild West, familiar to us through television and film, were actually violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. But of all the sheriffs of the frontier,...
• Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery - Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
• Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery - Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
• Martin the Warrior (Redwell, Bk 6) by Brian Jacques, ISBN 0399226702 - The Redwall series captured the hearts of readers and critics alike with its exhilarating tales of the wondrous creatures of Redwall. Martin the Warrior continues the saga with the long-awaited history of Martin, Redwall's most glorious hero, who rises from slavery to become th...
• Who Was Abraham Lincoln? - As the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically the first President to be assassinated. This biography contains more than 100 illustrations and a map.
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden, ISBN 0375400117 - Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as il...
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousands of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with fines, charged for room and board in state and county jails, and then forced to work off t...
• The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice, ISBN 0345434803 - See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the st...
• Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson, ISBN 1586215809 - At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.
• Silver Mountain Slaughter - Fargo comes across a young woman about to be sold into slavery, and he buys her freedom. But when the girl leads him into a deadly nest of Confederate sympathizers, deadly Apache warriors, and a fortune in silver, the Trailsman proves there are some things that can only be paid...
• March Toward the Thunder - A unique perspective on the Civil War as only Joseph Bruchac could tell it. Louis Nolette is a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian from Canada who is recruited to fight in the northern Irish Brigade in the war between the states. Even though he is too young, and not American or Iri...
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass, ISBN 014039012X - Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking narrative takes the rea...
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs, ISBN 0451527526 - One of the most memorable slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl illustrates the overarching evil and the pervasive depravity of the institution of slavery. Jacobs describes, in great and painful detail, her life as a Southern slave, the exploi...
• A Mercy - A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prizewinning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbin...
• Star Crash - Captain Cora Daniels crash-lands on an alien planet, where it appears she will live a new life in slavery as a simple breeder--until she learns that the man with whom she is meant to breed is her vanished fianc. Together they may find not only a resolution to their captivity bu...
• Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age - In this electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided Detroit and ignited the civil rights struggle, Boyle weaves a tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and recreates the Sweet family's journey from slavery to the midd...
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis, ISBN 0375705244 - In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award--winning author of "American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals-Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison-confronted the overwhelming challenges bef...
• Rabbit Ears Treasury of African American Heroes: Follow the Drinking Gourd; John Henry - "Rabbit Ears Treasury of African American Heroes" features brave and spirited characters in these classic stories read by your favorite stars and featuring original music by some of today's greatest artists." " "Follow the Drinking Gourd "Read b...
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ISBN 0553212184 - Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. "Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery...
• Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington, ISBN 0140390510 - Vividly recounting Washington's life--his childhood as a slave, struggle for education, founding and presidency of the Tuskegee Institute, and meetings with the country's leaders, this book reveals the conviction he held that the black man's salvation lay in education, industri...
• Sterling Biographies: George Washington: An American Life - "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen"--and first in the minds of schoolchildren, who learn about George Washington as soon as they begin studying American history. From Washington's Virginia childhood, through his days as a soldier ...
• Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, ISBN 0553211587 - At the beginning of "Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface...
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis, ISBN 0679444904 - In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover(s) over the political scene like one of those dirigibles c...
• Beloved by Toni Morrison, ISBN 0394535979 - Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision o...
• The Polished Hoe - When Mary-Mathilda, one of the most respected women of the island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados) calls the police to confess to a crime, the result is a shattering all-night vigil that brings together elements of the island's African past and the tragic legacy of colonial...
• Rise and Fall of Darth Vader - The full story of Anakin Skywalker, from his birth in slavery to his death as the powerful Darth Vader, is told for the first time in its entirety by a "New York Times" bestselling author. Spanning all six films and including the pieces of the story that fill in the g...
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ISBN 068985126X - One of the bestselling books of all time, the heart-wrenching story of Eliza Harris and Uncle Tom, published in 1852, exposed the horrors of slavery and helped bring about the Civil War.
• The Story of George Washington Carver by Eva Moore, ISBN 0590426605 - Born into slavery, George Washington Carver became one of the most prestigious scientists of his time. This biography follows Dr. Carver's life from childhood to his days as a teacher and discoverer.
• Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue - Told through flashbacks, foreshadowing, and shifting first-person points of view, this novel about slavery in America follows young Emma, who along with readers will discover that every decision has its consequences, and final judgment is passed down not by man, but by his maker.
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain by Susan K. Harris, ISBN 039598078X - In addition to the entire text of what some consider the quintessential American novel, this comprehensive volume features materials that help place the novel in perspective with its time and place. "Contexts" includes essays on the composition of the novel, the peopl...
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, ISBN 0375757376 - A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the Concord library shelves in 1885), it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Nigger Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft throu...
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ISBN 0679443657 - (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was revolutionary in 1852 f...
• Kindred by Octavia Butler, ISBN 0807083690 - This 25th anniversary edition, about a modern black woman who is snatched away to the antebellum South, celebrates a classic work with "much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now" ("Los Angeles Herald Examiner").
• The Classic Slave Narratives by Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ISBN 0451528247 - This collection of four first-hand accounts of slavery were chosen from the experiences of more than 6,000 ex-slaves, who by 1944 had written moving stories of their captivity. This volume includes portraits of the lives of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Mary Prince, and ...
• Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts, ISBN 0679758690 - This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare &qu...
• Harriet Tubman and the Freedom Train by Sharon Gayle, ISBN 0689854803 - Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman dreamed of freedom. Her dream finally came true, but she didn't stop there--as a conductor for the Underground Railroad, Harriet led hundreds of slaves to freedom, too. Full-color illustrations.
• Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art by Belinda Rochelle, ISBN 0688164153 - This collection of 20 poems by distinguished African-American poets, paired with works of art by acclaimed African-American artists from the 19th century through the present, touches on the subjects of identity, history, slavery, racism, and black pride. Illustrations. Young Ad...
• Africa by John Reader, ISBN 067973869X - "Awe-inspiring . . . a masterly synthesis." --"The New York Times Book Review "Deeply penetrating, intensely thought-provoking and thoroughly informed . . . one of the most important general surveys of Africa that has been produced in the last decade.&qu...
• The Old African - Based on legend and infused with magical realism, this haunting tale expresses the horrors of slavery and the hope and strength that managed to overcome its grip. Illustrations.
• Three Classic African-American Novels by Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ISBN 0679727426 - William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels.
• Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow by Leon F. Litwack, ISBN 0375702636 - "The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America. . . . Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy." --The Washington Post "The most complete a...
• Silver Angel by Johanna Lindsey, ISBN 0380752948 - Abducted and sold into slavery, Chantelle has been brought to the palace of a mighty Pasha. Vowing never to bow to this ruthless master's will, the young Englishwoman weakens within the silken splendor of his chambers, and after one glance into his piercing emerald eyes.
• DragonSpell - Once a slave girl, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. Yet this young girl has much to learn about the difference between slavery and service in this new fantasy that illustrates how God wants people to respond to His love.
• Road Show Series, The - "Road To Morocco" - Like Webster's dictionary, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour are "Morocco-bound" in the third rollicking entry in their popular series of "Road" comedies. Survivors of a Mediterranean shipwreck, stowaways Jeff (Crosby) an...
• Beloved - Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--first published in 1987--brings the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of today and into the reader's comprehension.
• Errol Flynn: The Signature Collection - "The Adventures Of Errol Flynn" - Documentary "Captain Blood" - This is the story of Dr. Peter Blood, an English surgeon who is sold into slavery in the West Indies after treating the leader of the rebellion against King James II. Bought by the beautiful Ara...
• Black Fox Box Set - "Black Fox", starring Christopher Reeve and Tony Todd, tells the story of two "blood" brothers, Alan and Britt Johnson - one a former plantation owner, the other his childhood friend whom he freed from slavery - who, with their families, leave Carolina to se...
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote, "It's the best book we've had." A complex masterpiece that has spawned volumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is at hea...
• Martin the Warrior (Redwall, Bk 6) by Brian Jacques, ISBN 0441001866 - The Redwall series captured the hearts of readers and critics alike with its exhilarating tales of the wondrous creatures of Redwall. Martin the Warrior continues the saga with the long-awaited history of Martin, Redwall's most glorious hero, who rises from slavery to become th...
• Rogue Planet by Greg Bear, ISBN 0345435400 - MASTER AND APPRENTICE The Force is strong in twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker . . . so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted young Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan? like his slain Master Qui-Gon?believes An...
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden, ISBN 0679781587 - A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly...
• Celia, a Slave: A True Story by Melton A. McLaurin, ISBN 0380803364 - A true story, based on court records, correspondences, and newspaper accounts past and present, this stunning historical achievement brilliantly illuminates an extraordinary event in the long, dark history of slavery in America. In 1850, 14-year-old Celia became the property of...
• Beloved by Mary Robinson, ISBN 076458667X - Classified as historical fiction, gothic horror story, and bildungsroman, this novel tells the story of a woman who murders her daughter to protect her from the living hell of slavery. Told in flashbacks, memories, and nightmares, the story is difficult but rewarding. This conc...
• Menaul Fine Art Slave Hut Limited Edition Canvas - Scott J. Menaul - MFA1084: Ships Via Small Parcel Ground These limited edition gicl e canvas prints are signed and sequentially numbered by the artist himself. Each canvas print is printed directly onto high quality canvas and coated with a clear protective topcoat for UV, abrasion, water and c...
• Menaul Fine Art Slave Hut Limited Edition Canvas - Scott J. Menaul - MFA1084: Ships Via Small Parcel Ground These limited edition gicl e canvas prints are signed and sequentially numbered by the artist himself. Each canvas print is printed directly onto high quality canvas and coated with a clear protective topcoat for UV, abrasion, water and c...
• Say You're One of Them - Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas ...
• Say You're One of Them - Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas ...
• Story Of Jacob And Joseph With CD Sampler, The (Full Frame) - Alan Bates narrates these two impressively told stories. The first story tells of Jacob and Esau as they fight over their birthright. The second tells of the story of Joseph, who is sold into slavery by his brothers. Starring Colleen Dewhurst, Herschel Bernardi, Harry Andrews a...
• Final Days Of Planet Earth, The (Widescreen) - Daryl Hannah, Gil Bellows and Campbell Scott star in this riveting end-of-days action thriller about Lloyd Walker, an anti-heroic archaeologist who, after stumbling upon an alien conspiracy, becomes enmeshed in an against-all-odds battle to save the human race. From the enigmat...
• Stargate (Unrated) (Blu-ray) (Widescreen, Extended Edition) - When Professor Daniel Jackson (James Spader) innocently accepts the offer of a mysterious woman to decode an ancient Egyptian artifact know only as the Stargate, he unwittingly takes the first step on an epic adventure that will span the galaxies and decide the fate of an entir...
• Stargate: Ultimate Edition (1994) (Widescreen) - When Professor Daniel Jackson (James Spader) innocently accepts the offer of a mysterious woman to decode an ancient Egyptian artifact known only as the Stargate, he unwittingly takes the first step on an epic adventure that will span galaxies and decide the fate of an entire p...
• Civil War Battlefields - The American Civil War (1861-1865) is one of the greatest conflicts in the history of mankind, and the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. What began as a bitter dispute over union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. It saw...
• Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom - On the morning of June 28, 1839, the schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana, Cuba, with a cargo that included 53 Africans who had been abducted from Sierra Leone and sold into slavery in violation of international law. Unaware of their fate and fearing they would be killed, t...
• SNAPS (Full Frame) - In the tradition of such groundbreaking comedy club shows as "Russell Simmon's Def Comedy Jam," HBO presents the most outrageous stand-up comedy form - "Snapping." "Snapping" is a game of African-American comedic insults, also known as 'rap comedy'...
• Civil War Battlefields - The American Civil War (1861-1865) is one of the greatest conflicts in the history of mankind, and the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. What began as a bitter dispute over union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. It saw...
• Enter The Dragon (HD-DVD) (Widescreen) - Recruited by an intelligence agency, outstanding martial arts student Bruce Lee participates in a brutal karate tournament hosted by the evil Han. Along with champions Roper and Williams, he uncovers Han's white slavery and drug trafficking ring located on a secret island fortr...
• Ten Commandments: The Musical, The (Widescreen) - Through the magic of musical theatre, one of the world's greatest stories has been reborn. With a stunning new vision, "The Ten Commandments: The Musical" brings to life the gripping tale of two brothers, Moses and Ramses. United by love, divided by destiny, they lead...
• Benjamin Franklin (Widescreen) - "Benjamin Franklin" traces Franklin's epic life from humble beginnings to fame as a scientist, Founding Father and America's first diplomat to France. Tony award-winner Richard Easton and a cast of distinguished actors bring Franklin's 18th century world vividly to li...
• Comic Legends [4 Discs] (Full Frame) - 4-Disc collection featuring five laugh-filled favorites. "Dick Van Dyke: In Rare Form": Highlights include some of Dick's most hilarious and beloved routines: "Babysitting Father", "Mailing A Letter On A Windy Corner", "Daddy?s Little Girls&qu...
• Wonder Showzen: Season One (Full Frame) - Parental Advisory: Explicit Content. Warning: This program is recommended for mature audiences only. It contains adult language and situations. "Wonder Showzen: Season One." - With a cult-like following that has spawned tons of positive reviews from critics and viewer...
• Sci-Fi Film Collection: Future Force / Star Knight / Final Days Of Planet Earth / The Last Sentinel - "Future Force": "Kill Bill's" David Carradine is John Tucker, the notoriously feared leader of the Civilian Operated Police State, a ruthless band of bounty hunters formed to restore order in a city overrun with crime. In the name of the law, and armed with ...
• Greatest Heroes Of The Bible (Full Frame) - "The Story Of Noah": A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in "The Story Of Noah", a powerful story of devotion, courage and triumph. "Abraham's Sacrifice": A father must choose between the life of his son and the love for his God ...
• Silver Chalice, The (Widescreen) - Paul Newman - in his screen debut - plays a 1st century Greek sculptor who is sold into slavery. He escapes harm when his talent is discovered and he is commissioned to create a replica of the chalice Jesus drank from at the Last Supper.
• Final Days Of Planet Earth (Blu-ray) (Widescreen) - Daryl Hannah, Gil Bellows, and Campbell Scott star in this riveting end-of-days action thriller about Lloyd Walker, an anti-heroic archaeologist who, after stumbling upon an alien conspiracy, becomes enmeshed in an against-all-odds battle to save the human race. From the enigma...
• Groucho Marx and Redd Foxx - Two Legends In One Laugh-Filled Collection. Comic greats Redd Foxx and Groucho Marx headline this hilarious double bill of old school style stand-up comedy, performed live in front of a studio audience. Sporting his trademark cigar and deadpan delivery, Groucho Marx interviews ...
• Human Trafficking (Widescreen) - Hundreds of thousands of young women have vanished from their everyday lives - forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and prostitution. They're a profitable commodity in the multi-billion-dollar industry of modern slavery. The underworld calls them human traff...
• Abraham & Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (Full Frame) - From award-winning filmmaker David Grubin, this miniseries weaves the lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln; Abraham the dirt-farmer's son turned Great Emancipator and Mary the emotionally fragile daughter of wealthy Southern slave-owners. Together, they ascended to the pinnacle of...
• Greatest Heroes & Legends Of The Bible, Vol.1 - "Greatest Heroes & Legends Of The Bible, Vol.1" Includes: "Daniel And The Lion's Den"; "David And Goliath"; "Joseph And His Coat Of Many Colors"; "Samson And Delilah" and "Sodom And Gomorrah". "Daniel And The ...
• Monsieur Vincent (Full Frame) - An Academy Award winner for best Foreign Language Film, "Monsieur Vincent" chronicles the remarkable journey of St. Vincent de Paul (Pierre Fresnay) who rose from slavery to become a trusted advisor to queens and princes. Director Maurice Cloche's powerful and dramati...
• Stargate [P&S] [15th Anniversary Ultimate Edition] [Extended Cut] (Full Frame) - When Professor Daniel Jackson (James Spader) innocently accepts the offer of a mysterious woman to decode an ancient Egyptian artifact known only as the Stargate, he unwittingly takes the first step on an epic adventure that will span galaxies and decide the fate of an entire p...
• Ben Hur (Full Frame) - During the first century A.D., Judah Ben-Hur is a young Hebrew prince thrown into slavery by the Romans after a tragic accident, who wins his way back to his home and family on a heroic adventure of discovery. Judah's love for a beautiful slave girl is threatened by the bitter ...
• Lincoln And Lee At Antietam: The Cost Of Freedom - The Single Bloodiest Day In American History. It's September 17, 1862 and President Abraham Lincoln needs a victory in order to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and end slavery in the South. But Robert E. Lee has other plans - invade the North. When Lee's strategy falls into...
• Enter The Dragon (Widescreen, Special Edition) - Recruited by an intelligence agency, outstanding martial arts student Bruce Lee participates in a brutal karate tournament hosted by the evil Han. Along with champions Roper and Williams, he uncovers Han's white slavery and drug trafficking ring located on a secret island fortr...
• Founding Brothers - The self-evident truths were intensely debated. In America's first years, Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, Madison and Burr struggled to transform their disparate visions into an enduring government. Based on Joseph Ellis's Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Fo...
• Story Of Jacob And Joseph, The (Full Frame) - Alan Bates narrates these two impressively told stories. The first story tells of Jacob and Esau as they fight over their birthright. The second tells of the story of Joseph, who is sold into slavery by his brothers. Starring Colleen Dewhurst, Herschel Bernardi, Harry Andrews a...
• Captain Blood (Full Frame) - This is the story of Dr. Peter Blood, an English surgeon who is sold into slavery in the West Indies after treating the leader of the rebellion against King James II. Bought by the beautiful Arabella, Blood leads a revolt with his fellow prisoners and escapes. Seeking retributi...
• Day In Black & White, A - Harold Perrineau (HBO's Oz, The Best Man, Woman On Top) and Anthony DeSando ("The Sopranos", Plan B, Urban Legends) star as two friends - one black and one white - who come together one morning to write a speech about race. They talk, they sit, they argue - but they ...
• Black Fox: Good Men And Bad - "Black Fox: Good Men And Bad" is the third in a series of three movies that tell the story of two "blood" brothers, Alan and Britt Johnson - one a former plantation owner, the other his childhood friend whom he freed from slavery. With their families, they l...
• The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudiah Equiano, ISBN 0375803467 - A gripping adaptation of one of the first known slave narratives, Equiano tells of the 11 years he spent in slavery in England, the United States, and the West Indies, until he was able to buy his freedom.
• Sightings: Heartland Ghost (Full Frame) - Cynical TV director (Beau Bridges) doesn't suffer fools gladly. As the brains behind "Sightings," a series that investigates the paranormal, he's more interested in soundbites than spirits. A young couple in High River, Kansas, Jeff and Pam Mason, contact the show - ...
• Sci-Fi Collectible Tin: Future Force / Final Days Of Planet Earth / Star Knight - The "Sci-Fi Collectible Tin" includes "Future Force", "Final Days Of Planet Earth" and "Star Knight". "Future Force": "Kill Bill"'s David Carradine is John Tucker, the notoriously feared leader of the Civilian Operated...
• Shaft in Africa (Widescreen) - Go ahead. Slug, drug, kidnap and leave John Shaft buck-naked in a sweltering hellhole. It's still no deal. If you want to recruit this tough-minded Manhattan detective for an overseas assignment, you'd better use a language he understands. One that offers a fat up-front fee...
• Lyricist Lounge: Dirty States Of America (Full Frame) - The untold story of Southern Hip-Hop! In a commercial music industry which has lost its way artistically and creatively, Southern Hip-Hop is steeped in spirituality and struggle and is deeply rooted in slavery, the civil rights movement, poverty and oppression. Dirty States of ...
• Bible Collection: Moses, The (Full Frame) - Faith in God. Escape from slavery. The two great themes from the Old Testament book of Exodus are given thrilling new life in this recreation of how Moses led the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land. Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley ("...
• Manderlay (Widescreen) - From the internationally celebrated director of "Dancer In The Dark" and "Dogville" comes his latest masterpiece, "Manderlay." While traveling across America, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) discovers the isolated plantation of "Manderlay" - ...
• Bible Collection: Samson & Delilah, The (Full Frame) - Samson is a simple shepherd with the strength of a titan and the destiny to fight the Philistines and General Tariq. Delilah is a Philistine beauty, torn between her love for the shepherd and loyalty to her people. As told in the Old Testament, Samson's betrayal by Delilah left...
• Moses - Burt Lancaster stars as "Moses," the man who led his people from slavery to freedom and faith, in this mammoth production of the Old Testament story. As an infant, Moses is put afloat on the Nile, to save him from the Pharaoh's death edict for all male Hebrew babies. ...
• NightJohn - Sarny (Allison Jones), a 12-year-old slave girl in the ante-bellum South, faces a relatively hopeless life. Her chief duties at the plantation of Clel Waller (Beau Bridges) are serving at table, spitting tobacco juice on roses to prevent bugs, and secretly conveying intimate me...
• Road To Morocco (Full Frame) - Like Webster's dictionary, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour are "Morocco-Bound" in the third rollicking entry in their popular series of "Road" comedies. Survivors of a Mediterranean shipwreck, stowaways Jeff (Crosby) and Orville (Hope) paddle to a N...
• Enter the Dragon [Blu-ray] (Widescreen) - Recruited by an intelligence agency, outstanding martial arts student Bruce Lee participates in a brutal karate tournament hosted by the evil Han. Along with champions Roper and Williams, he uncovers Han's white slavery and drug trafficking ring located on a secret island fortr...
• Bible Collection: Joseph, The - Cast into a pit by his jealous brothers, young Joseph pleads for mercy. Instead, the brothers sell the terrified boy into slavery in Egypt. But Joseph turns this agonizing betrayal into triumph. Academy Award winners Ben Kingsley and Martin Landau highlight an outstanding cast ...
• Charlie's Angels: The Complete Fourth Season (Full Frame) - Another season of the hit classic series comes to DVD! This season, the Angels go on the Love Boat to investigate a major art theft, go back to college to stop a white slavery ring, and find more than just fingerprints when Charlie's yacht is stolen. Jill gets help from the Ang...
• Pasion (Spanish) (Full Frame) - This story of love, passion and piracy is set in the romantic yet violent world of 18th-century colonial Mexico. Young, beautiful Camila Darien is kidnapped by pirates, sold into slavery and forced to marry wealthy Don Timoteo de Salamanca. He dies on their wedding night, leavi...
• Last Sentinel / Final Days Of Planet Earth (Blu-ray) (Widescreen) - Included in this set is "Last Sentinel" and "Final Days Of Planet Earth". "Last Sentinel": No emotion. No fear. No pain. They were the perfect soldiers to protect civilization - until the drone police became the perfect enemy. With little hope left...
• Ill Gotten Gains - The year is 1869. Slavery is a crime punishable by death, yet the skin trade continues, driven by unrestrained greed. Twenty-four African captives fill the tiny hull of the slave ship Argon Miss off the coast of West Africa. As the ship travels to an unknown destination, its i...
• Black Fox - "Black Fox", starring Christopher Reeve and Tony Todd, tells the story of two "blood" brothers, Alan and Britt Johnson - one a former plantation owner, the other his childhood friend whom he freed from slavery - who, with their families, leave Carolina to se...
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis, ISBN 0375405445 - An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our ...
• Planet Hulk (Widescreen) - A whole new world of hurt! He was a monster, impossible to control, too dangerous to ignore. So Earth?s mightiest heroes exiled him into outer space. But now The Incredible Hulk crash lands on the distant planet Sakaar, ruled by the tyrannical Red King. Sold into slavery, Hulk ...
• Say You're One of Them - Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas ...
• Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route - An original, thought-provoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery from the 16th century to the present.--Elizabeth Schmidt, "The New York Times.
• The Lost Band by Don Coldsmith, ISBN 0553294733 - White Moon's Dream... For the Forest Band of the People, summer is a peaceful time of hunting and gathering. But when a band of Shaved-heads brutally attack, the People's women and children are carried off into slavery. Most accept their fate, but one of the captives, the cou...
• The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine - In the vein of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's "Infidel" and Ishmael Beah's "A Long Way Gone," this Cambodian woman's memoir is a story of triumph over years of sexual slavery and puts a face and a voice to a human-rights disaster of global proportions.
• The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom - A descendant of Wessyngton slaves, Baker pens an accessible and exciting work of African-American history offers an uplifting story of survival and family that gives fresh insight into the institution of slavery and its ongoing legacy today. Illustrations throughout.
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - In this historical expos, Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. photographs.
• The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice, ISBN 0679454470 - In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand--eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interv...
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, ISBN 0553212451 - In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Ch...
• Escape the Mask - In this first book of a new fantasy trilogy, Corki and Pippa barely remember their lives before Grassland. Now they toil as diggers for their masked taskmasters, the Spears. But change is coming, and it may bring with it the opportunity for the children to escape their lives of...
• A Crime So Monstrous: Face-To-Face with Modern-Day Slavery - Based on four years of research in over a dozen countries across the globe, journalist Skinner provides a shocking expos of the inner workings of the modern-day slave trade. Maps.
• Dream of Freedom - One man and his family decide to follow God's will and free their slaves, which sparks a controversy as lines are being drawn between North and South over slavery. Original.
• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - Lyrical text describes Harriet Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her North to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of slavery. This is a moving portrait of one of the most inspiring figures of the Underground Railroad--a w...
• Caribbean by James A. Michener, ISBN 0449217493 - "A grand epic." THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER Master storyteller James A. Michener sweeps us off to the Caribbean, with a magnificent novel that captures the eternal allure of that glittering string of islands and their tumultuous history. Beginning in 1310 and continu...
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, ISBN 0679740678 - It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany...
• Zachary Taylor - Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Zachary Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. His truncated presidency exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.
• Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It by Herb Boyd, ISBN 0385492790 - Benjamin Banneker on Thomas Jefferson's hypocrisy * Old Elizabeth on spreading the Word * Frederick Douglass on life in the North * Sojourner Truth on black women's rights * W.E.B. Du Bois on the Talented Tenth * Matthew Henson on reaching the North Pole * and many more. &quo...
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis, ISBN 0679764410 - For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of...
• 1984 by George Orwell, ISBN 0452284236 - This new centennial edition is the masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment, where war is peace, freedom is slavery, and Big Brother is watching.
• Viking Warrior - When a beautiful Danish maiden is captured by Norse warriors and sold into slavery, she never guesses that she will soon become the willing thrall of a golden-haired Viking who holds captive her heart. Original.