Slavery & abolition of slavery books

A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep...  Read More >>

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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 >>

This book reveals the evidence of secessionist conspiracy that appeared in American newspapers from the end of the...  Read More >>

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar...  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 >>

First published in 1849 and largely unavailable for many years, The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb is among the...  Read More >>

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In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade,...  Read More >>

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade,...  Read More >>

"""Original and revelatory."" -David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass Avery O. Craven Award Finalist A Civil...  Read More >>

Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates....  Read More >>

Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates....  Read More >>

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Glimpse into the struggles of many planters that saw the Tennessee Valley as an opportunity to establish plantations...  Read More >>

A thorough exploration of slavery from the perspective of Islam’s authoritative texts as well as moral and philosophical...  Read More >>

Includes texts from various rhetoricians who worked as abolitionists, speakers, writers, activists, and/or publishers...  Read More >>

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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 >>

In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery,...  Read More >>

Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel,...  Read More >>

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In this concise yet comprehensive history, Jared Ross Hardesty focuses on the individual stories of enslaved people...  Read More >>