Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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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 >>

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

""This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the institution of slavery from the perspective of the slaves...  Read More >>

""Educated for Freedom"" explores the story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation""--  Read More >>

Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal anti-slavery novel with an afterword by Pat Righelato.  Read More >>

Abducted from Africa, sold in America. “A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life”- Daily Telegraph...  Read More >>

This book examines the long history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its intersection with abolitionism,...  Read More >>

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From Kara Walker's hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty's bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and...  Read More >>

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal anti-slavery novel with an afterword by Pat Righelato.  Read More >>

Elizabeth Keckley rose from slavery to become a successful businesswoman and a friend of the Lincolns.  Read More >>

From Kara Walker's hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty's bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and...  Read More >>

Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator...  Read More >>

The story of fugitives from enslavement and their travels on the Underground Railroad is a story of violence. This...  Read More >>

The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the...  Read More >>

Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent...  Read More >>

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Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city...  Read More >>

Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira...  Read More >>

The story of Solomon Northup is a bizarre and incredible one. Born a free black in New York State in 1808, he was...  Read More >>

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