Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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

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

Linked by declarations of emancipation within the same five-year period, two countries shared human rights issues...  Read More >>

From Rake to Radical sheds new light on significant historical events and on the people who shaped them in Ireland,...  Read More >>

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Mariana Candido explores the history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in Angola from the sixteenth...  Read More >>

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving...  Read More >>

As the election of 1860 loomed, the United States suffered tumultuous division over the political fate of slavery...  Read More >>

Mariana Candido explores the history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in Angola from the sixteenth...  Read More >>

Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents the best writings of the leading American antislavery...  Read More >>

Harvard has had a close relationship with slavery. This report details Black enslavement on campus, financial benefits...  Read More >>

Children Enslaved, first published in 1988, reveals the full extent of child slavery throughout the world. It describes...  Read More >>

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This...  Read More >>

Salimatu and her sister Fatmata are captured, sold to slavers, renamed and split apart. Now Sarah and Faith, will...  Read More >>

How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of black resistance, identity, and remembranceOne...  Read More >>

La mia carriera mi ha dato l'opportunita di vivere in molte citta e viaggiare per il mondo in luoghi come Italia,...  Read More >>

My career has given me the opportunity to live in many cities and travel the world to places like Italy, France,...  Read More >>

A new and comprehensive history of the action in the Cornfield during the battle of Antietam, 1862.  Read More >>

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 made slavery illegal in the territory that would later become Illinois, Indiana,...  Read More >>

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The first comprehensive environmental synthesis of the Caribbean region, written by eminent scholars of the topic....  Read More >>

Con motivo de la celebración del 4 de julio, Día de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos, el exesclavo Frederick...  Read More >>

A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific....  Read More >>

Over the course of more than twenty years, James Richardson and his wife retraced the steps of his ancestor, George...  Read More >>