Slavery & abolition of slavery books

This book deals with the foundation, mechanisms and scope of slavery-related memorial processes, and with their...  Read More >>

Traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts but played an important role in forging...  Read More >>

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In musical, evocative language, her poems imagine the what-if-that-almost-was of Scotland’s best-loved Bard, following...  Read More >>

Many of the original essays in this volume began as papers presented at an international conference on Constitutional...  Read More >>

A bold, brave and brilliant novel exploring the trokosi tradition...  Read More >>

A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to discredit...  Read More >>

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith. Written while Smith...  Read More >>

A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that...  Read More >>

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith. Written while Smith...  Read More >>

Soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate...  Read More >>

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"Sojourner Truth (born Isabella ""Belle"" Baumfree; c. 1797 - 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights...  Read More >>

Papers presented at the Seminaario Escravidaao, Fronteiras e Reladcaoes Internacionais no Impaerio do Brasil, held...  Read More >>

Frederick Douglass's incisive anti-slavery speech in an elegant hardcover edition.  Read More >>

Captives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean....  Read More >>

Read this book and experience the companion of god in your rainy blue days. After conquering an apparently hopeless...  Read More >>

Cannibals All!: Or, Slaves Without Masters. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution...  Read More >>

February, 1861, violence increases on settlements along the Kansas-Missouri border when Kansas is admitted to the...  Read More >>

First published in 1861 under a pseudonym, this is the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother, fugitive and slave....  Read More >>

James Collins Johnson was an escaped slave working at Princeton University in 1843 when he was arrested and tried...  Read More >>

The famed abolitionist's only fictional work is based on a true 1841 event, in which captives aboard a slave ship...  Read More >>

"Sojourner Truth (born Isabella ""Belle"" Baumfree; c. 1797 - 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights...  Read More >>

A stunning, imaginative work of history that transforms our understanding of slavery and resistance Women warriors...  Read More >>

While the depth of Americans' historiographical engagement with slavery is not surprising, the range and sheer volume...  Read More >>