Slavery & abolition of slavery books

This historical ethnography of Tetouan rescues from oblivion the lives of the last slaves who arrived in Morocco...  Read More >>

Most accounts of philanthropy and societal change focus either on either the efforts of a small number of 'heroic'...  Read More >>

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Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor,...  Read More >>

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor,...  Read More >>

This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and...  Read More >>

Insightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of...  Read More >>

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This book examines the individual and collective subjectivities of enslaved individuals in the Iberian worlds, exploring...  Read More >>

Volume I problematizes the concepts of Enlightenment and revolution, revealing how the former did not wholly cause...  Read More >>

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Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and stresses the ethnic dimension of the independent processes in Spanish...  Read More >>

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor,...  Read More >>

Serving the chain? is a history of De Nederlandsche Bank in which particular attention is paid to its links with...  Read More >>

"Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be...  Read More >>

"Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

Slavery touched many aspects of Mamluk society. This volume focuses on the role of slaves within the family, from...  Read More >>

Situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political...  Read More >>

10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers,...  Read More >>

Despite the fact that slavery had formally been abolished at the end of the 19th century in most countries, it remains...  Read More >>

Written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln’s Widow,...  Read More >>

* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * ‘A spectacular achievement’ ANTHONY DOERR ‘Extravagantly beautiful’ DAILY MAIL ‘One...  Read More >>

* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * ‘A spectacular achievement’ ANTHONY DOERR ‘Extravagantly beautiful’ DAILY MAIL ‘One...  Read More >>

Established to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development...  Read More >>