Slavery & abolition of slavery books

Charlton is born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation in 1837. Belle, the master's daughter, intervenes to...  Read More >>

A re-examination of racial issues by someone who has lived on both sides of the coin. On The Trail of a Human Being...  Read More >>

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From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming...  Read More >>

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They Were Her Property is a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy....  Read More >>

Objects and places were at the centre of struggles that defined the history of slavery and its abolition in the...  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 >>

Excerpt from Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave XVII - Letter from W. H. Gatewood,...  Read More >>

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In The Unfinished Revolution, Salt examines post-revolutionary (and contemporary) sovereignty in Haiti, noting the...  Read More >>

White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American...  Read More >>

White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American...  Read More >>

Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labour in the tobacco fields, brothels were raided to provide 'breeders'...  Read More >>

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Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s...  Read More >>

"Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes...  Read More >>

The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that...  Read More >>

Since 2011, civil wars and state failure have wracked the Arab world, underlying the misalignment between national...  Read More >>

Demonstrates that Vodou cosmology emerged as a spiritual, social and cultural technology for the enslaved to overcome...  Read More >>

When Pueblo Indians say, “The first white man our people saw was a black man”, they are referring to Esteban, who...  Read More >>

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

A riveting historical novel about the social injustice and the enslavement of an intact family, taken from Virginia...  Read More >>