Slavery & abolition of slavery books

NOTE TO THE READER: This is the large print edition of the Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave.  Read More >>

This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture—a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of...  Read More >>

The clearly and concisely written entries in this reference work chronicle the campaign to end human slavery in...  Read More >>

MADAM, --Having written a short account of some incidents connected with my life, I return my grateful and sincere...  Read More >>

I PRESUME it is right that prefaces should be written, though it is hard to say why, as they are very seldom read....  Read More >>

A brilliant, authoritative, and riveting account of the most critical...  Read More >>

Guinea affords an easy living to its inhabitants, with but little toil. The climate agrees well with the natives,...  Read More >>

Henry Bibb was an American writer who was born into slavery, but he eventually escaped from slavery and founded...  Read More >>

I PRESUME it is right that prefaces should be written, though it is hard to say why, as they are very seldom read....  Read More >>

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Wolf by the Ears provides students in American history with an ideal introduction to the Missouri crisis while at...  Read More >>

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An influential seventeenth-century fable, by a pathbreaking woman writer, about the fall of a black prince.  Read More >>

Slavery is an important part of American history. It is intriguing to not only learn about the history of slavery,...  Read More >>

THIS little book, now offered to the many kind friends of Bethany Veney, contains the simple story of one of the...  Read More >>

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward  Read More >>

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

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IT HAS been the good fortune of the writer of these lines to become rather intimately acquainted with Samuel Hall,...  Read More >>

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In this illuminating text, the origins of the slave trade in Africa and the effects of the practice of slavery on...  Read More >>

Envisioning La Escalera - an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations...  Read More >>

Presents case studies with evidence from surviving letters that indicate a kind of ""love"" existing between the...  Read More >>

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a...  Read More >>