Slavery & abolition of slavery books

For too long, the uncomfortable history of slavery in the United States has been swept under the rug. The 1619 Project...  Read More >>

Durante demasiado tiempo, la incomoda historia de la esclavitud en Estados Unidos se ha ocultado bajo la alfombra....  Read More >>

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

A sound-studies approach to accounts of slavery in the Caribbean that unlocks the sounds that are registered and...  Read More >>

Explores the epistemological possibilities of the ‘Black world’ paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography...  Read More >>

In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern...  Read More >>

Examines the rarely-covered relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his most influential ancestors, and demonstrates...  Read More >>

"Greetings from God to the human family. This very didactic, enlightening, philosophically sound, morally prudent...  Read More >>

"Greetings from God to the human family. This very didactic, enlightening, philosophically sound, morally prudent...  Read More >>

Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world defined by...  Read More >>

In Reckoning with Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth...  Read More >>

In Reckoning with Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth...  Read More >>

The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route...  Read More >>

The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route...  Read More >>

The volume includes several case studies that inform these narratives and examines slave ships such as la Concorde,...  Read More >>

First published 1911. Author was a well-known French writer and literary critic.  Read More >>

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""One lesson from Texas history is that repression was so severe because resistance was so daunting-a lesson to...  Read More >>

One man's personal discovery of his family's involvement in transatlantic slavery leads to his call for a wider...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern...  Read More >>

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernity  Read More >>

Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire offers a new contribution to slavery studies relating to the Ottoman...  Read More >>

Presents the final instalment of research and analysis by one of the Caribbean's foremost historians. In this volume,...  Read More >>