Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Exploring the complexities of identity in precolonial West Africa, Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré shows the Soninke community's...  Read More >>

Traces themes of concealment and silence through paintings, photographs, and ephemera, connecting long overlooked...  Read More >>

Dr John Andrew Morrow makes clear in this volume, there is not a single verse in the Qur'an that commands slavery....  Read More >>

Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern...  Read More >>

African American literary production has changed in astounding ways since the 1970s. This book provides a systematic...  Read More >>

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A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of...  Read More >>

This historical ethnography of Tetouan rescues from oblivion the lives of the last slaves who arrived in Morocco...  Read More >>

Most accounts of philanthropy and societal change focus either on either the efforts of a small number of 'heroic'...  Read More >>

Abina and the Important Men is a compelling and powerfully illustrated ""graphic history"" based on an 1876 court...  Read More >>

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Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor,...  Read More >>

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor,...  Read More >>

This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and...  Read More >>

"""A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian""--"...  Read More >>

The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post–Civil...  Read More >>

Insightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of...  Read More >>

This book examines the individual and collective subjectivities of enslaved individuals in the Iberian worlds, exploring...  Read More >>

Volume I problematizes the concepts of Enlightenment and revolution, revealing how the former did not wholly cause...  Read More >>

Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and stresses the ethnic dimension of the independent processes in Spanish...  Read More >>

Volume II covers the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French and Haitian Revolutions...  Read More >>

Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth century. Beatriz...  Read More >>

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor,...  Read More >>