Slavery & abolition of slavery books

This is the classic book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, initially published in 1845.  Read More >>

In The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition, Erik Gøbel offers an account of the well-documented Danish transatlantic...  Read More >>

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For much of the eighteenth century, Bristol was England's second city and, between 1730 and...  Read More >>

There are truths revealed in love, war, and slave trade.</p> Sam has been raised into the slave hunting profession...  Read More >>

Breaking with historical orthodoxy that claims Bacon's Rebellion marked the death knell of white labor in the Chesapeake...  Read More >>

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A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daring—and long-forgotten—heroes...  Read More >>

In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists...  Read More >>

This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the...  Read More >>

In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South - and particularly...  Read More >>

The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account...  Read More >>

"The Town of Chester in upstate Warren County, New York, was a secret haven for runaway slaves escaping to Canada...  Read More >>

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During the period from 1836 to 1874, the legal system in Arkansas developed amid huge social change. The Arkansas...  Read More >>

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Presents an intellectual and social history of slave thought from the late antebellum era through Reconstruction,...  Read More >>

Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807  Read More >>

Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752  Read More >>

Nat Turner (1800 - 1831) was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton...  Read More >>

A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daring—and long-forgotten—heroes...  Read More >>

Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar - Anti-Slavery Society - A Letter To the Members and Friends of the British...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back...  Read More >>