Slavery & abolition of slavery books

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides...  Read More >>

A fascinating, colorful, and historically significant portrait of slave trader turned Christ follower, John Newton....  Read More >>

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave...  Read More >>

Cooper shows how the reaction to slavery unveiled the characteristics of freedom and established the foundation...  Read More >>

"In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American...  Read More >>

"In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American...  Read More >>

The withdrawal of black women from field labor in the postwar South is the historical question being addressed with...  Read More >>

"In the winter of 1852, a group of Philadelphia abolitionists dedicated to assisting runaway slaves in their flight...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive multi-disciplinary study of Junian Latinity  Read More >>

"In the winter of 1852, a group of Philadelphia abolitionists dedicated to assisting runaway slaves in their flight...  Read More >>

Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of the past, are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War...  Read More >>

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The history of Spanish presence in the Americas is usually viewed as a one-sided conquest. Eugene Berger provides...  Read More >>

The volume includes several case studies that inform these narratives and examines slave ships such as la Concorde,...  Read More >>

Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange. This volume...  Read More >>

"A vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero--an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out...  Read More >>

A compelling testament to the power of the human spirit from Kemp Powers, the Oscar-nominated writer of One Night...  Read More >>

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After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts...  Read More >>

Did you ever wonder about the enslaved people in your ancestry? Have you asked the oldest living relative what...  Read More >>

Taking the theme of 'abolition' as its point of departure, this book builds on the significant growth in scholarship...  Read More >>

This volume presents the first historical account of the response of the Black freedom movement to slavery in the...  Read More >>

In Britain's War Against the Slave Trade, naval historian Anthony Sullivan reveals the story behind this little-known...  Read More >>

Maligned for centuries as a fictional tale, David Ingram's survival of a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico and journey...  Read More >>

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