Slavery & abolition of slavery books

A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and...  Read More >>

Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early...  Read More >>

The author's own story of living in slavery for twenty two years in Virginia.  Read More >>

The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection. Part VII: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews...  Read More >>

From Slavery to Aid takes two major themes of African historiography - the death of slavery and the birth of aid...  Read More >>

To cast light on African perspectives of the history of slavery, top Africanist scholars have examined both conventional...  Read More >>

Essays from leading academics probing British efforts to abolish the slave trade internationally in the 19th century....  Read More >>

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This title contains 26 slave detailed and historically rich narratives not orginally circulated or published from...  Read More >>

""[The book] offer[s] a wealth of information concerning the personal lives of those enslaved in the state of Alabama....  Read More >>

This compelling narrative illuminates Smalls' amazing journey from slave to Union hero and ultimately Congressman....  Read More >>

Quand on consulte les écrits des voyageurs et des missionnaires qui ont fait connaître les anciennes moeurs coloniales,...  Read More >>

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In Beyond Racism and Poverty Karin Lurvink explains how the truck system functioned on Louisiana plantations and...  Read More >>

Through engagement with the ‘Slaving Zones' theory, our authors elucidate new and complimentary ways in which identity,...  Read More >>

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To reflect the individual character of this document, most inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and formatting...  Read More >>

"Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed since the Civil War, I doubt that there is in the entire South...  Read More >>

From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling...  Read More >>

Slaves replaced indentured servants as a source of cheap labor in all of the colonies early in the seventeenth century....  Read More >>

Based primarily upon the original tax assessor ledgers for 1813 and 1818 housed at the Baltimore City Archives,...  Read More >>

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of...  Read More >>

In a Central Texas community, as another case recounts, citizens forced a Choctaw native into court in an effort...  Read More >>