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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball, ISBN 0345431057 - NATIONAL BESTSELLER "[A] LANDMARK BOOK." --"San Francisco Chronicle "POWERFUL." --"The New York Times Book Review "GRIPPING." --"The Boston Sunday Globe "BRILLIANT." --"The New Yorker "EVERYONE S...
  • Unchained Memories: Slave Narrative (Full Frame) - When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress. These first-person anecdotes, ranging from the brutal to the bittersweet...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs, ISBN 0486419312 - This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her eventual escape, in a tale...
  • Dali In New York - Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make Dali in New York, a highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing "manifestations? with a plaster cast, a thousand ants and...
  • Dutchman; And the Slave: Two Plays by Amiri Barbaka, ISBN 0688210848 - Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both "Dutchman "and "The Slave "are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a deadly serious problem--and they bring an eloquent and excepti...
  • 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...
  • Slaves Of New York (Widescreen) - Eleanor (Bernadette Peters) is an aspiring hat designer who lives with her successful but abusive artist boyfriend. The high cost of rent makes Eleanor and most of her fellow loft dwellers slaves to their relationships; if only they could afford to move they could move on. Stru...
  • Burn! (Full Frame) - A Caribbean island in the mid-1800's. Nature has made it a paradise; man has made it a hell. Slaves on vast Portuguese sugar plantations are ready to turn their misery into rebellion - and the British are ready to provide the spark. They send agent William Walker (Marlon Brando...
  • My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations - In this groundbreaking book, an acclaimed historian resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, 70 years before the Civil Rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. Here is the fascinating story of a forgotten civil rights crusader: a woman who...
  • Enslaved by Virginia Henley, ISBN 0440217067 - "Where are all the real men? she wondered... For Lady Diana Davenport, they existed only in her books and dreams. There she could lose herself, becoming the licentious Diana, goddess of the hunt--far from the rigid restraints of eighteenth-century London, where she was c...
  • 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 ...
  • 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...
  • 47 - In his first book for young adults, the bestselling author weaves a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom. The life of a young slave named 47 seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave and finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation. 240 p.
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, ISBN 0679736638 - Set in 1831, The Confessions Of Nat Turner tells--in his own words--of a black man who awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. His name is Nat Turner and he is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that 'peculiar institution.
  • Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati, ISBN 0553582798 - In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often o...
  • Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together - A modern-day slave and an international art dealer are bound together by a dying woman's faith. Will Ron, the art dealer, be able to embrace Denver, who's been homeless for almost 20 years? Will Denver learn to trust a white man? There's pain and laughter, doubt and tears, and ...
  • The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Stephen B. Oates, ISBN 0060916702 - The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil...
  • Latin American Heroes: Liberators and Patriots from 1500 to the Present by Jerome Adams, ISBN 0345383842 - Many North Americans are unaware of the history and politics of Latin America, and Latin American Heroes goes a long way to redress this lack of knowledge. These profiles of twenty-three history makers offer a unique view of Latin America through the eyes of men and women who d...
  • Stellar Fungk: The Best of Slave - Stellar Fungk: The Best of Slave
  • Middle Atlantic 12'' Master/Slave Jumper for MPR Series Modules, Sold in Packs of 6 - DF1784: Ships Via Small Parcel Ground Allows M Series slave modules to be switched remotely by an RLM Series Master Module.
  • Simon Schama's Rough Crossings (Widescreen) - "Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American Revolution. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the esc...
  • Roots: The Complete Collection - One man's family. One nation's legacy. Share in the human triumph of Kuanta Kinte, Fiddler, Kizzy, Chicken George and more in this Edition of Alex Haley's best-selling saga as depicted in the 1977 8-part mini-series that impacted the nation like no other telecast. Based on Alex...
  • 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...
  • 1812/Marche Slave/Etc. - 1812/Marche Slave/Etc.
  • Song Yet Sung - A runaway slave and a determined slave catcher become tangled in a web of intrigue and adventure in James McBride's intricately constructed and impressive second novel, set in pre-Civil War Maryland.
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God - Pauperhood is relegated to the children of a lesser god. It is the condition of slaves who have yet to discover their freedom on the other side of the river of baptism and find themselves still captured by the dark prince of torture and torment. He is the one who assigns them t...
  • Price of a Child by Lorene Cary, ISBN 0679744673 - With her first book, the extraordinary Black Ice, Lorene Cary won comparisons with Maya Angelou and Richard Wright. Now she gives us a historical novel that belongs alongside the true slave narratives that are its inspiration - a gripping and minutely realized story of the ante...
  • William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner - William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner
  • Dune by Brian Herbert, ISBN 0553580337 - The triumphant conclusion to the blockbuster trilogy that made science fiction history! In Dune: House Corrino Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring us the magnificent final chapter in the unforgettable saga begun in Dune: House Atreides and continued in Dune: House Harko...
  • Freedom by Any Means: Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad - DeRamus's first work, "Forbidden Fruit," highlighted the extraordinary acts of courage and love by blacks in the American slave era. This latest work is a collection of inspiring stories of how slaves used the law--against all odds--to gain freedom for themselves and ...
  • Roots: 30th Anniversary - Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, "Roots" followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga began with Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton), a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700...
  • Five Weeks In A Balloon (Full Frame, Widescreen) - Let your spirits soar with this lighter-than-air adaptation of the Jules Verne classic tale. A ragtag crew of such unlikely associates as Fabian and Sir Cedric Hardwicke races across uncharted African territory in a unicorn-shaped balloon. Accompanied by Red Buttons as a playbo...
  • Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams, ISBN 0688166431 - The heart-warming saga of a slave's flight to freedom, Dessa Rosa provides a rich, compelling story of a pregnant slave condemned to die for a murderous act of rebellion.
  • Amazing Grace (Widescreen) - From the makers of "Ray," "Amazing Grace" tells the inspiring story of William Wilberforce and his passion and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th century. Several friends, including Wilberforce's minister, a reformed slave shi...
  • Woman Called Moses, A (Full Frame) - Cicely Tyson stars in the life of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War. Tubman aided the Union Army as a reconnaissance agent, mobilizing black troops against the Confederates, freeing ...
  • Song Yet Sung - Escaped slaves, free blacks, slave-catchers, and plantation owners weave a tangled web of intrigue and adventure in bestselling memoirist ("The Color of Water") McBride's intricately constructed and impressive second novel, set in pre-Civil War Maryland. Unabridged. 1...
  • Buck And The Preacher (Full Frame, Widescreen) - Widely regarded at the time of its release as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" with a social conscience, "Buck And The Preacher" is an immensely satisfying Western which marked Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, as well as his first screen pairing with ...
  • Once Upon A Time In China Collection - "Once Upon A Time In China" - Winner of the Hong Kong Film Award! China's been infected with a plague known as the Western world, and Wong Fei-hung (Jet Li) refuses to stand by and watch as his country is decimated by the foreign forces. A martial arts expert, Wong co...
  • The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop, ISBN 0451458028 - In this stand-alone novel, set in the world of "The Black Jewels Trilogy", a notorious queen purchases Jared, a Red Jewel Warlord, in an auction and makes him a pleasure slave. Jared fears he will share the fate of her other slaves, but Gray Lady may not be what she s...
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - In his wrenching, classic autobiography--one of the most important documents in American history--Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave and, later, a slave who became a man. Reissue.
  • A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation - Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of the past, are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.
  • Slave to Sensation - Slave to Sensation
  • The Feast of All Saints (R) by Anne Rice, ISBN 0345334531 - In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles ...
  • Emperor: The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden, ISBN 0385336608 - Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true ...
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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Way Up and Over Everything - My great-grandmama's mama told her and she told me this story about a long time ago . . . So begins this account of the author's great-great-grandmother Jane, and how she meets a slave new to the plantation, a slave who would prove to have magical powers . . . created by the ...
  • Slaves of Obsession by Anne Perry, ISBN 0449005925 - The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner party seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator William Monk and his bride, Hester, sense growing tensi...
  • Once Upon a Time in China (Widescreen) - Winner of the Hong Kong Film Award! China's been infected with a plague known as the Western world, and Wong Fei-hung (Jet Li) refuses to stand by and watch as his country is decimated by the foreign forces. A martial arts expert, Wong collides with the foreigners, their influe...
  • Sally Hemings: An American Scandal - "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal" is an epic story starring Sam Neill (Merlin, Jurassic Park) and Carmen Ejogo ("Metro", "Love's Labour Lost") about the extraordinary, controversial thirty-eight-year relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his...
  • I, Dred Scott: A Fictional Slave Narrative Based on the Life and Legal Precedent of Dred Scott - This fictional slave narrative is based on the life and legal precedent of Dred Scott, who became the plaintiff in one of the most important legal cases in American history. Includes historical notes, chronology, bibliography, and a Foreword by John A. Madison, Jr., Scott's gre...
  • Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves - "Sugar of the Crop" is the story of an unprecedented quest to find the last surviving children of slaves. In a revealing search, from Los Angeles nursing homes to Alabama churches, Butler provides a fascinating picture of African-American life and its legacy in the po...
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones, ISBN 0060557540 - Henry Townsend, a black bootmaker and former slave in antebellum Virginia, becomes a proprietor of his own plantation--as well as his own slaves. This modern masterpiece explores what happens when he dies and "the known world" unravels.
  • Slaves And Masters - Slaves And Masters
  • Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany - Expanding on his August 2002 "New Yorker" article, Buford now offers a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the small, chaotic, highest-standards kitchen of Batalis three-star New York restaurant, Babbo, and of his appre...
  • Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together - Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
  • Amazing Grace: The Inspirational Stories of William Wilberforce, John Newton, and Olaudah Equiano - The Radio Theatre production of "Amazing Grace" provides a prequel view to events featured in "Amazing Grace," the movie. It offers listeners a more in-depth story of each of the three men instrumental in overthrowing the slave trade--William Wilberforce (an...
  • The Heiress by Claire Delacroix, ISBN 0440225892 - "When you open a book by Claire Delacroix, you open a treasure chest of words, rare and exquisite!" --"Rendezvous "I seek a bride, the wealthiest heiress in Ireland." No woman can resist the charms of Rowan de Montvieux. But the dashing rogue is in n...
  • Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty - Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
  • Night Running: How James Escaped with the Help of His Faithful Dog - A young slave's faithful dog comes to his rescue when the boy is captured while trying to escape. The story is based on the real-life ordeals of James Smith, a former slave who became a farmer and minister.
  • 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.
  • Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati, ISBN 0553578529 - It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered -- a white man dressed like a N...
  • Fever Season by Barbara Hambly, ISBN 0553575279 - Benjamin January made his debut in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color, a haunting melange of history and mystery. Now he returns in another novel of greed, madness, and murder amid the dark shadows and dazzling society of old New Orleans, named a Notable Bo...
  • Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism by Leslie Perrin Wilson, ISBN 076458619X - 39 New and Revised Titles. The Best Just Got Better! Plus Glossary from Webster's New World™ Dictionary Anthem Atlas Shrugged Beowulf Brave New World The Canterbury Tales The Catcher in the Rye The Contender The Crucible The Fountainhead Frankenstein The Grapes of Wrath Great ...
  • Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life - He was born in the backwoods of Kentucky in a humble log cabin, but Abraham Lincoln was savvy enough to embrace the new technology of his time--photography--to propel him all the way to the White House. This simple man with lofty goals was willing to use any means necessary, in...
  • La Muerte del Filosofo - The sun has set and Gorgias is about to finish his work, Exhortation to obedience. Suddenly, the hundred and nine-year old philosopher drops dead. The lives of three people are forever changed by this unexplained eventJasn, Gorgias tyrannical benefactor and pupil, Akorna, the p...
  • 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.
  • Transporter Box Set (Widescreen) - "Transporter Box Set" contains "The Transporter" and "Transporter 2" "The Transporter" - Buckle up for "a fist-flying, guns-blazing wild ride" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) that delivers "one exciting jolt of adrenaline afte...
  • Trickster's Queen - No longer a slave, Alanna's daughter is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. Aly is busy keeping the potential teenage queen and her younger siblings safe, while also keeping her in the dark about her future.
  • Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines, ISBN 0553263579 - "This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand be...
  • The Black Dragon - When Saba Watanabe is attacked by white dragons in human form on the streets of San Francisco, the only man she can turn to for help is the dangerously seductive Malcolm, a black dragon who once made Saba his love slave. But its Saba who must use her rising powers to save Malco...
  • Dune House Atreides by Brian Herbert, ISBN 0553580272 - Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood's son plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves for a year's education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot ...
  • Aesop's Fables by Ann McGovern, ISBN 0590438808 - This collection of stories attributed to a Greek slave named Aesop contains 67 tales. Each one illustrates the failings and virtues of human nature in a simple, humorous way and ends with a proverb that teaches a moral.
  • Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon, ISBN 0312979975 - For 2,000 years, Julian of Macedon has lived a curse of being a love-slave. When he is summoned to fulfill Grace Alexander's sexual fantasies, Grace is the first woman to see him as a man with a tormented past. Taking him out into the world, Grace teaches Julian to love again, ...
  • A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer, ISBN 1558743669 - This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games...
  • Real Christianity: A Paraphrase in Modern English of a Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the H - This book helped abolish the slave trade in the United Kingdom more than 200 years ago. The updated classic, first published in 1797, is being reissued in time for the Walden Media movie, "Amazing Grace.
  • 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...
  • Dreamers - In this retelling of the biblical story of Joseph, Tuya is the wife of Potiphar, the captain of Pharoah's guard. Yet her heart is owned by the handsome slave Joseph. Joseph dreams of freedom and of Tuya as his queen. But is it God's will to make Joseph's dream their destiny? Re...
  • 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...
  • Voyage of Slaves: A Tale from the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman - Fans of the "New York Times" bestselling Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series will be thrilled with this rousing yarn filled with high-seas adventure.
  • The Land of the Silver Apples - THE CHILDREN FROM THE SEA OF TROLLS BRAVE THEIR WORST NIGHTMARES—UNDERGROUND. Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady of the Lake; stolen a second time in her...
  • Didi & Ditto 2: Wolf King-1st Grade (PC) - To avoid having their homeland destroyed by the wolves, the animals of Jako's Valley have accepted the Wolf King as their ruler. All the animals must work hard to fill the demands of the King and his Lieutenants. Didi and Ditto have a plan. They bet the King that beavers are sm...
  • Sins of a Solar Empire (PC) - Ten millennia have passed since you and the few survivors of the once mighty Vasari Empire fled from an unknown threat that all but exterminated your kind. You now find yourself at the fringe of the galaxy in a sector occupied by a pathetically primitive species - one obsessed ...
  • Fallout 3: Game of the Year (Xbox 360) - Features:   The Power of Choice!   Are you good or evil? Talk out your problems or just flash your Plasma Rifle. Blast 'Em Away With V.A.T.S.!     Rain death and destruction in an all-new cinematic combat presentation. Limitless Freedom!     Visit towns, battle through D...
  • Fallout 3: Game of the Year (PS3) - Features:   The Power of Choice! Are you good or evil? Talk out your problems or just flash your Plasma Rifle. Blast 'Em Away With V.A.T.S.! Rain death and destruction in an all-new cinematic combat presentation. Limitless Freedom! Visit towns, battle through DC, or explore t...
  • The Stand by Stephen King, ISBN 0451169530 - A horror novel in which a faceless laboratory creature claims humanity as slaves or victims.
  • Sacajawea: Guide to Lewis and Clark by Della Rowland, ISBN 0440402158 - As a young girl, Sacajawea was separated from her family when she was captured by a band of Minnetaree warriors and taken to be their slave. Several years later, she was bought by a French fur trader to be his wife. Then, in 1804, when she was only sixteen years old, Sacajawea ...
  • Through the Storm by Beverly E. Jenkins, ISBN 0380798646 - Sable, a slave on the run to escape the cruel man she's been sold to is forced to betray the charming Union officer Raimond LeVeq, who had romanced her and championed her. Brought together again by fate and an arranged marriage, she must try and win the trust of LeVeq--the man ...
  • Man On Fire / The Transporter (2-Pack) (Widescreen) - Double Feature includes: "Man On Fire" - Two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington ignites a masterpiece of mayhem in this "powerful" (Los Angeles Times) action-thriller about sweet redemption...and savage retribution. Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA o...
  • Fables by Aesop, ISBN 0679417907 - Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The wonderful tales attributed to him--in which the fates of sly foxes, wicked wolves, and others suggest what our own behaviors should (or should not) be--have been universal "bes...
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, ISBN 0553213881 - A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America's greatest philosophers and poets. The writings featured here show Emerson as a prot...
  • 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...
  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family - Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.
  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family - Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.
  • Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1623-1923 by Allen Mandelbaum, ISBN 0553102508 - A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Alla...
  • Magnificent Seven Complete Series Gift Set, The (Full Frame) - "Magnificent Seven Complete Series Gift Set" includes: Season One - Seven Men. One Destiny. Michael Biehn "The Terminator," Ron Perlman "Hellboy," and Eric Close TV's "Without A Trace" continue the saga made famous by John Sturges' classi...
  • Cyclops - It is the pinnacle of the Roman Empire, a time of mighty gladiators, lusty women, and a ferocious one-eyed monster that slaughters those foolish enough to enter his forest domain. The corrupt emperor Tiberius (Academy Award(R)-Nominee, Eric Roberts) has a plan to please the blo...
  • Major Dundee (Widescreen, Extended Edition) - Sam Peckinpah's first big-budget film was also the first to be taken away and released in a shortened version. But now, 40 years later, most of the missing footage has been located and reinserted with the entire soundtrack remixed in 5.1 Dolby Digital, and a completely new scor...
  • Ten Commandments, The (Widescreen) - "The Ten Commandments" unfolds with all of the spectacle, violent human drama, and grand inspiration that has earned it its distinction as the greatest story ever told. When an oracle prophesizes that a child will become Prince of Egypt, a time of danger approaches th...
  • Promise (Mandarin Chinese), The (Widescreen) - A new epic fantasy set in China's mythical past, "The Promise" is a visually stunning tale of passion that unfolds against a backdrop of war as a beautiful and mysterious princess becomes the object of affection for three very different men - a powerful Duke, a brave ...
  • Magnificent Seven: The Complete First Season, The (Full Frame) - Seven Men. One Destiny. Michael Biehn "The Terminator," Ron Perlman "Hellboy," and Eric Close TV's "Without A Trace" continue the saga made famous by John Sturges' classic 1960 film "The Magnificent Seven" in Season 1 of this action-packe...
  • Ultimate Underdog Collection: Volume 2, The - There's No Need To Fear...Underdog Is Here! Now you can enjoy the 1960's classic cartoon superhero in a whole new way! This second volume of "The Ultimate Underdog Collection" includes six complete shows, all digitally re-mastered! Each features Underdog's greatest ad...
  • Gods And Generals (Widescreen) - Based on Jeffrey M. Shaara's bestseller, "Gods And Generals" recounts the fierce allegiances and combat of the early Civil War. Ronald F. Maxwell directs this epic prequel to his "Gettysburg," framing the story with three bold mend and three fateful battles....
  • 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...
  • Civil War Battlefields (4-Disc) (Full Frame) - Relive America's darkest chapter when brothers fought against each other. Experience first-hand the greatest battles of the Civil War. Get to know the soldiers of the Republic and the Generals who led them. Ride with General Sherman as he drives to the sea, leaving Atlanta in a...
  • Pompeii: The Last Day - Step back in time and visit the "vanished city" on its last day, as the mighty volcano Vesuvius explodes in a 24-hour reign of terror. On August 24th, AD79, Pompeii's citizens witness day turning into night as 4 billion tons of pumice, rock, and ash burst forth from V...
  • Star Trek, Vol 34: Episodes 67 And 68 (Full Frame) - "Plato's Stepchildren": Kirk, Spock, Uhura and Chapel are forced to suffer humiliating experiences as puppets of aliens with incredible telekinetic abilities. Trek Trivia This episode features the famous "first interracial kiss on television," yet few peop...
  • Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans (with Exclusive Bonus DVD) (Anamorphic Widescreen) - Exclusive Includes "Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans" DVD and the Bonus Disc "Inside The Castle Walls?. "Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans" - The prequel story traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires known as Dea...
  • Transporter / Kiss Of The Dragon, The - Double Feature includes: "The Transporter" - Buckle up for "a fist-flying, guns-blazing wild ride" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) that delivers "one exciting jolt of adrenaline after another!" (New York Daily News) Frank Martin (Jason Statham - &quo...
  • Booker / Simple Justice Double Feature (Full Frame) - "Simple Justice" - Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Richard Kluger, "Simple Justice" chronicles the two-decades legal struggle by Africa-American lawyers Charles Hamilton Houston (James Avery) and Thurgood Marshall (Peter Francis James) to ...
  • Rome: The Complete First Season - Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people; epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allow...
  • Transporter (With Digital Copy), The (Widescreen, Special Edition) - Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is the best as what he does: transporting dangerous or illegal goods with no questions asked. But his last shipment, a beautiful young woman kidnapped by international slave traders, brings deadly complications to his delivery plans. Now Frank must ...
  • Funny Guy Collection: Napoleon Dynamite / Office Space / Young Frankenstein (Blu-ray) (Widescreen) - "Napoleon Dynamite" - "Napoleon Dynamite" is a new kind of hero, complete with a tight red 'fro, sweet moon boots, and skills that can't be topped. Napoleon spends his days drawing mythical beasts, duking it out with his brother, Kip, and avoiding his schemi...
  • Gladiator Extended Edition (Widescreen, Extended Edition) - Winner of five Academy Awards(R), including Best Picture and Best Actor, "Gladiator" is now available in an all-new extended version that includes 17 additional minutes of vivid action and extraordinary storytelling. Discover the unparalleled power of "Gladiator,...
  • Reno 911!: The Complete Fifth Season (Uncensored) (Full Frame) - The officers of "Reno 911!" are back with their most ridiculous season yet, with sixteen episodes that'll leave you stewed, screwed, and tattooed. In this fifth season, Wiegel meets her real daddy, the department hires an ex-sex slave worker, and the team takes on a b...
  • Kiss Of The Dragon / Transporter (Widescreen) - Double Feature includes: "Kiss Of The Dragon" - Martial arts genius Jet Li explodes onto the screen with an intensity not seen since Bruce Lee. "Kiss of the Dragon" is not merely a thriller but a shocker. (San Francisco Chronicle) China's top secret agent vi...
  • Hell's Windstaff (Widescreen) - Two mischievous boys discover that their townspeople are being sold as slave laborers to Indonesia by a man named Lu, who employs his deadly Hell's Windstaff, a highly evolved and, so far, undefeated form of staff fighting.
  • Transporter / Transporter 2 (Blu-ray) (2-Pack) (Widescreen) - This 2-Pack includes "The Transporter" and "Transporter 2". "The Transporter": Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is the best as what he does: transporting dangerous or illegal goods with no questions asked. But his last shipment, a beautiful young woman...
  • 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...
  • Garfield's Pet Force (Widescreen) - Snacking, napping, fighting aliens - it's all in a day's work for Garfield! One minute, Garfield and his pals are having a cookout, the next, they're engaged in a super battle with a sinister alien and her army of zombies! When an evil comic book demoness tries to make everyone...
  • D.O.A. - The End - DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Additional Release Material: Production Interview - 1. Joe Keithley - Star Music Video - "Death Machine" Music Video - "World Falls Apart" Music Video - "Takin' Care of Business" In...
  • 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...
  • Ken Burns' Thomas Jefferson (Full Frame) - Revered as the author of the Declaration of Independence, the most sacred document in American history, yet condemned as a lifelong owner of slaves, Thomas Jefferson remains the enigma that is America. Part One: A young Thomas Jefferson from the Virginia wilderness is transfor...
  • Family DVD Movie 20 Pack - 20 Movie Pack includes hours of family home viewing entertainment! "Africa Screams" - Foolish book clerks convince a woman adventurer that they know a lot about Africa and are soon kidnapped. Starring: Abbott & Costello "The Borrowers" - Follow the fortu...
  • Riverworld (Widescreen) - Welcome to the most spectacular afterlife ever, where everyone is reborn young and healthy - including the most vicious and ruthless warriors of all time! This is the wondrously imaginative setting of "Riverworld," a mysterious, sultry planet where the past, present a...
  • Dude, Where's My Car? / Office Space - Double Feature includes: "Dude Where's My Car?" - Meet Jesse (Ashton Kutcher TV's" That's '70s Show")and Chester (Seann William Scott), "American Pie"), two dimwitted yet lovable party animals who wake up one morning with a burning question: "...
  • Office Space (Blu-ray) (Widescreen, Special Edition) - Unable to endure another mind-numbing day at Initech Corporation, cubicle slave Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) gets fired up and decides to get fired. Armed with a leisurely new attitude and a sexy new girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston), he soon masters the art of neglecting his wor...
  • Roman Empire In The First Century, The (Widescreen) - Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Through the experiences, memories and writings of the people who lived it, this series tells the story of that time - the emperors and slaves, poets and plebeians, who wrested order f...
  • Beast King: GoLion - Collection 1 (Japanese) (Full Frame) - From days of long ago, from uncharted regions of the universe, comes a great legend...The Legend of "Beast King GoLion". "GoLion" is the original Japanese show cut to create the 80's Cartoon Classic "Voltron". After the total annihilation of Earth,...
  • Middle Passage, The (Full Frame) - It was the route between Africa and the New World that carried slaves to exchange for sugar and tobacco. It was the sea that carried a human cargo, a resting place for thousands who would not survive the journey. It was called "The Middle Passage.". Scene Selectio...
  • Glory (UMD Video For PSP) (Widescreen) - The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War, "Glory" stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. Broderick and Elwes are the idealistic young Bostonians who lead the regiment; Freeman is t...
  • Booker: The True Story Of Booker T. Washington - "Booker" tells the true story of Booker T. Washington, who, as a young slave, dreams of learning to read and write. After the Civil War frees him, Booker is forced to work long hours in a salt furnace to help his family survive. But with hard work and persistence, Boo...
  • 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 ...
  • Demetrius And The Gladiators (Widescreen) - This enormously successful sequel to "The Robe" continues the story of Demetrius (Victor Mature), the Greek slave who, after the death of his master, is sentenced to train as a gladiator in the Roman arena. There, his newfound Christian faith is put to the test when h...
  • Glory / The Patriot Double Feature - "Glory": The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War, "Glory" stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. Broderick and Elwes are the idealistic young Bostonians who lead the reg...
  • Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, A (Widescreen) - Something appealing. Something appalling. Something for everyone - a comedy tonight! "One of the hottest burlesque shows that ever hit Broadway" (Time) comes to the screen showcasing the enormous talents of Tony Award winner Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford (&q...
  • Golden Voyage Of Sinbad, The (Full Frame, Widescreen) - This is a spectacular adventure set in mysterious ancient lands inhabited by incredible creatures! Sinbad (John Phillip Law), Prince of Baghdad and legendary sailor, finds an intriguing map and sets sail for the previously uncharted island of Lemuria with a beautiful slave girl...
  • Berga: Soldiers Of Another War (Full Frame) - "Berga: Soldiers Of Another War" is a story of American G.I.'s who worked as slave laborers in Berga am Elster, a satellite concentration camp of the notorious Nazi death camp Buchenwald. Captured by German forces during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, these soldiers ha...
  • Glory (Blu-ray) (With BD-Live) (Widescreen) - The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War, "Glory" stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. Broderick and Elwes are the idealistic young Bostonians who lead the regiment; Freeman is t...
  • Scalphunters, The (Widescreen) - Oscar(R)-winning director Sydney Pollack delivers a "rousing good show" (The Film Daily) with this fast-paced western full of "irresistible humor" and "delightful ironies" (Motion Picture Herald). Starring Oscar(R)-winners Burt Lancaster and Shelle...
  • Adventures Of Huck Finn / Tom & Huck Double Feature, The - "The Adventures Of Huck Finn": Climb aboard for an extraordinary version of Mark Twain's sweeping adventure when Walt Disney Pictures presents "The Adventures Of Huck Finn". It's the unforgettable saga of a mischievous youngster and a runaway slave on a wild...
  • Ten Commandments (Widescreen) - "The Ten Commandments" unfolds with all of the spectacle, violent human drama, and grand inspiration that have earned it its distinction as the greatest story ever told. When an oracle prophesies that a child will become Prince Of Egypt, a time of danger approaches th...
  • Glory (Full Frame, Widescreen, Special Edition) - The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War, "Glory" stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. Broderick and Elwes are the idealistic young Bostonians who lead the regiment; Freeman is t...
  • Ben Hur: 4-Disc Collector's Edition (Full Frame, Widescreen) - The numbers speak volumes: 100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets and a staggering budget in its day the largest in movie history. "Ben-Hur's" creators made it the best, the greatest Biblical-era epic ever. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presen...
  • 10,000 B.C. (Full Frame, Widescreen) - From director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow") comes a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D'...
  • Unsolved Mysteries: Ghosts Volume 1 (Widescreen) - They're more than Halloween stories...they're real. Explore the paranormal with the best "Unsolved Mysteries: Ghosts". From the deck of the ocean liner Queen Mary to the Black Hope Curse of a Texas subdivision built on an old slave burial ground, these are the true st...
  • Lexx: Season 1 - Hailed as "the most imaginative Sci-Fi since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'" (New York Daily News), "Lexx" follows the nomadic existence of four misfit characters who have inadvertently stolen the most powerful weapon of destruction ever made: a Manh...
  • Spartacus (With Movie Money) (Widescreen) - This presentation of the powerful film classic features an additional five minutes of footage cut from the film's original release, plus the original overture and extended soundtrack. Director Stanley Kubrick tells the tale of "Spartacus" (Kirk Douglas), the bold glad...
  • Adventures From The Book Of Virtues: Adventures In Faith (Full Frame) - Includes 2 episodes. "Harriet Tubman": When Annie's elderly friend and neighbor dies suddenly, she questions the use of faith and the virtues it inspires. This leads Plato to tell the story of how Harriet Tubman's faith inspired her to lead slaves through the undergro...
  • Billy Graham Presents Gift Set: Last Flight Out / Road To Redemption / Something To Sing About (Full Frame) - "Billy Graham Presents Giftset" contains "Billy Graham Presents: Last Flight Out", "Billy Graham Presents: Road To Redemption" and "Billy Graham Presents: Something To Sing About" "Billy Graham Presents: Last Flight Out": A youn...
  • Ben Hur: 4-Disc Collector's Edition (With Bible Story) (Collector's Edition) - The numbers speak volumes: 100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets and a staggering budget in its day the largest in movie history. "Ben-Hur's" creators made it the best, the greatest Biblical-era epic ever. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presen...

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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