Slavery & abolition of slavery books

JEFFERSON DAVIS WAS A PROPONENT of the high road to emancipation. He looked to the day in which slaves would be...  Read More >>

A breathtakingly original history of the Berbice Slave Rebellion, the event that almost changed the face of the...  Read More >>

Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural,...  Read More >>

Traces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of...  Read More >>

Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural,...  Read More >>

Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural,...  Read More >>

In an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between the formerly enslaved and northern reformers, John Cimprich...  Read More >>

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"Finding Francis, finding family, freeing history Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found--in archival...  Read More >>

Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were...  Read More >>

A highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its center  Read More >>

Black Resettlement and the American Civil War is the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Bringing the lower Mississippi valley to the foreground of the history of the early republic, Replanting a Slave...  Read More >>

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

Through analysis of two communities in coastal Kenya, The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya argues that heritage...  Read More >>

Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and...  Read More >>

Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and...  Read More >>

The first book to outline Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar...  Read More >>

African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were...  Read More >>

The first book to outline Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar...  Read More >>

In 1870s Calcutta, a serial killer preys on sex-workers in the bustling city, causing fear and chaos. Trinoyoni...  Read More >>

In 1789 the West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France. The entire structure...  Read More >>

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated....  Read More >>