Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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""Experience has taught us that it is sometimes wise and necessary to have more than two witnesses to bring out...  Read More >>

In the preface to his biography of John Brown, W. E. B. Du Bois writes that the book ""is at once a record of and...  Read More >>

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Europe witnessed a remarkable rise of Black excellence, as inventors, writers,...  Read More >>

During the 18th and 19th centuries Europe witnessed a remarkable rise of Black excellence as inventors, writers,...  Read More >>

In recent years, the archives of the Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie (MCC), the Dutch West India Company (WIC)...  Read More >>

In the aftermath of the September 1862 Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued the most significant...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War...  Read More >>

An economic history of the Burton family of Norfolk, and their enslaved workers on the Chiswick sugar estate  Read More >>

A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science as well as one of economics...  Read More >>

The first historical account of the dramatic growth of Christianity in Western Tanzania during the twentieth century...  Read More >>

In an election season, all political parties claim to champion freedom, which highlights the very different ways...  Read More >>

Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world By the time of the opening of...  Read More >>

""This work reveals the pervasive nature of Native enslavement and argues for the significance and importance of...  Read More >>

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Racialized Commodities traces how Greece's ""racial imaginary""--a confluence of thinking about cultural geography,...  Read More >>

The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter—which brings new insights into Britain’s involvement...  Read More >>

The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter—which brings new insights into Britain’s involvement...  Read More >>

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Reveals how, through auctions, early Americans learned capitalism As the first book-length study of auctions in...  Read More >>

A compelling study into the history and lasting influence of enslaved Native people in early South Carolina. In...  Read More >>

A compelling study into the history and lasting influence of enslaved Native people in early South Carolina. In...  Read More >>

Servants Abroad presents the journals of four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the...  Read More >>

""This book shows how, in the run up to the Civil War, white Transcendentalists were politicized by black abolitionists....  Read More >>

Lifting the Shadow examines how the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery’s Legacy...  Read More >>