Slavery & abolition of slavery books

Henry Bibb (1815-1854) was born to an enslaved woman named Mildred Jackson in Shelby County, Kentucky. His father...  Read More >>

A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved...  Read More >>

""Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future...  Read More >>

"TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Narrative Cure for the Evil of Slavery (by Charles Stearns) Footnotes Not...  Read More >>

In this volume, scholars of pre-modern Europe and the Arab world examine the issues of incarceration and slavery....  Read More >>

African Sovereigns shows how the lived experience of Jamaican Maroons is linked to the African Diaspora. The author...  Read More >>

Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy,...  Read More >>

""A spatial analysis of slavery in early New York's Dutch communities from 1626 to 1826""--  Read More >>

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

A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery...  Read More >>

George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered...  Read More >>

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"Solomon Northup was a farmer and a musician who was taken hostage and sold into slavery in 1841. In his first year...  Read More >>

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The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom  Read More >>

Left destitute after the Civil War by the death of David Winfree, her former master and the father of her children,...  Read More >>

In Revisualizing Slavery, historians, heritage specialists, and cultural scientists shed new light on the history...  Read More >>

The classic memoir of an 18th-century British former slave, and leading figure in the abolitionist movement, Olaudah...  Read More >>

Explores the efforts of American slaveholders to reconcile the intellectual dilemma in which they found themselves...  Read More >>

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Explores the question of how free and enslaved Africans and secret Jews interacted in daily life. The book focuses...  Read More >>

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the US Lower South on the eve of the...  Read More >>

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