Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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A history of the many different British Empires the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870),...  Read More >>

This book centers on the Africa-Atlantic-Americas system and its relationship to the complex of Atlantic slavery,...  Read More >>

An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.  Read More >>

This is a 225-page illustrated search directory of black confederates' book listing 5,000 by slave names and state...  Read More >>

This fascinating full-length biography - the first to address the full influence of John W.E. Thomas or any black...  Read More >>

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Examines slavery in the colonial South, using a variety of legal records and archival documents to investigate how...  Read More >>

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In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for...  Read More >>

Upcountry planters used their financial successes from growing cotton to build Greek Revival mansions to display...  Read More >>

At a time when speculations about Thomas Jefferson's personal and sexual life, often based on little evidence, prevail...  Read More >>

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"DUKE OF YORK represents an accurately vivid depiction of American slavery. It presents detailed first-hand accounts-Stories-of...  Read More >>

In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite explores the experiences of enslaved people who escaped from the U.S. South...  Read More >>

This volume is the first comprehensive study of the material imprint of slavery in early medieval Europe.  Read More >>

In six cases, starting in 1676 with Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia and ending in 1865 with the First South...  Read More >>

In six cases, starting in 1676 with Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia and ending in 1865 with the First South...  Read More >>

“Hilary Neary makes a major contribution to scholarship by placing the reader in conversation with Chambers’s letters,...  Read More >>

This book updates oppressive metaphors of Puerto Rico as a 'big family' in the prose of Afro-Puerto Rican authors...  Read More >>

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Cette traduction est un délice à savourer. Ainsi le traducteur confie au lectorat francophone l'occasion de découvrir...  Read More >>

The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, it demonstrates the diversity...  Read More >>

When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans...  Read More >>

Building on sixty years of fieldwork, archival research and oral accounts, this book presents the history of prophetic...  Read More >>