Attacking North Caolina’s Plantation Society in the Age of Reconstruction NC Piece Corps     2012     32p     5 x 8 On December 21st, 1864, a wealthy slaveholder and minor official of the Confederacy named James P. Barnes was ambushed on his way to the Post Office in Robeson County, North Carolina. After … Continue reading The Lowry Wars →

Industry as the Origins of Modern Domination Leopold Roc     16p     5 x 8 An excellent description of the history and methods used to force some of the first people from their homes into factories. No one goes willing, it isn’t smooth, inevitable or anything close to a ‘revolution.’ Industrial Domestication PDF … Continue reading Industrial Domestication →

Richard Wright     1938     336p     MMPB Wright’s first book is set in the American Deep South. Each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. $1-5 Other works involving richard wright, … Continue reading Uncle Tom’s Children →

1492 to Present Howard Zinn     1980     768p     6 x 9 In Zinn’s own words, ‘My history… describes the inspiring struggle of those who have fought slavery and racism (Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses), of the labor organizers who have led strikes for the rights … Continue reading A People’s History of the United States →

Vera Figner     1920     336p     6 x 9 In this classic memoir, Figner recounts her journey from aristocrat to revolutionary, candidly relating the experiences that shaped her ideas and provoked her to political action and violence. As she reflects on her own lifelong commitment to improving the lives of ordinary … Continue reading Memoirs of a Revolutionist →

B. Traven     1933     240p     5 x 8 In the third of his six Jungle Novels, set in the great mahogany plantations of southern Mexico in the years before the revolution, Traven traces the beginnings of consciousness which led to rebellion by the Indians who worked in debt slavery. Other … Continue reading March to the Monteria →

And Other Writings Covington Hall & David Roediger ed.     1999     264p     5x 8 In the half-century since it was written, Hall’s Labor Struggles In The Deep South, has become an underground classic among activist historians writing on the South and on working people. Hall—journalist, organizer, rebel, professor, and poet—brings … Continue reading Labor Struggles in the Deep South →

W.E.B. Du Bois     1909     304p     5 x 8 A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important black thinkers of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the … Continue reading John Brown →

A Graphic Guide Donald Woods & Mike Bostock     1986      160p      5.5 x 8 An illustrated introduction and over-view of south african apartheid. From its roots in european settler culture, to the openly racist policies of the late 1800s, fascist influences in the 1920s-1930s and the eventual rise to power … Continue reading Apartheid →

Herbert Aptheker 1943 428p 5 x 8 A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and were passive. Includes the story of Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey Gabriel and others. $8-15 Other works involving slave revolts, nat turner, slavery, armed struggle, race, escape, sabotage, excarceration, the south, 1800s