Slavery & abolition of slavery books

"Do you want to read Uncle Tom's Cabin? If so then keep reading... Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly,...  Read More >>

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Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games-and the trouble with making history playable Kill the...  Read More >>

Makes a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who have had...  Read More >>

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

What happened to slavery in Europe in the centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire? This book is the only...  Read More >>

Frederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important...  Read More >>

Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies,...  Read More >>

""This book looks at the Jewish population of Surname from 1651 to 1825. In Surname, Jews had more autonomy than...  Read More >>

Prince -- a slave in the British colonies -- vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against...  Read More >>

For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across...  Read More >>

Solomon Northup's memoir written in 1853 and now an award winning major motion picture. Mr. Northup recounts his...  Read More >>

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THE subject of this biography, SOJOURNER TRUTH, as she now calls herself-but whose name, originally, was Isabella-was...  Read More >>

On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, abolishing the practise throughout...  Read More >>

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This publication traces the stories of ten black abolitionists, including Douglass, who travelled to Ireland in...  Read More >>

New America, during and after the Revolutionary War, attempts recovery and stability. First, there was the curse...  Read More >>

Where we Started brings the past and its inhabitants alive, and makes possible a very different understanding of...  Read More >>

Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place...  Read More >>

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Suman Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual construction of medicine, race, and empire in the...  Read More >>

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HIghlights the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish...  Read More >>

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