Slavery & abolition of slavery books

In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved...  Read More >>

First published in 2007, the groundbreaking book Finding Freedom provided the first narrative account of the life...  Read More >>

A unique collection of translated court cases from the Court of Justice of Cochin that sheds new light on the experiences...  Read More >>

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The question of the impact of slavery has gained new importance in debates on the history of economic development,...  Read More >>

Byrfoddau Rhagymadrodd Pennod 1: 'Teulu Ham sy'n cael eu hymlid' Pennod 2: 'O henffych, henffych fore clir, Pryd...  Read More >>

America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history decisively influenced...  Read More >>

During the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families...  Read More >>

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Reveals the forgotten history of the white slaves who were transported from Europe to Africa.  Read More >>

Reveals the forgotten history of the white slaves who were transported from Europe to Africa.  Read More >>

Thorndike Press Large Print Black Voices --Title page verso.  Read More >>

"The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free...  Read More >>

"The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free...  Read More >>

A revealing history of how slavery-derived wealth transformed Britain's natural and architectural landscapes.  Read More >>

Everybody knows about the transatlantic slave trade. A century before Britain became involved in this terrible business,...  Read More >>

Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year. But few of us know the peanut's tumultuous...  Read More >>

This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than...  Read More >>

This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony by enslaved African Americans...  Read More >>

Tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organised the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist...  Read More >>

Negotiating Abolition: The Antislavery Project in the British Straits Settlements, 1786-1843 explores how sex and...  Read More >>

From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom...  Read More >>