Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written. This classic...  Read More >>

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond...  Read More >>

Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding...  Read More >>

Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted...  Read More >>

This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial...  Read More >>

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Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted...  Read More >>

This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial...  Read More >>

""Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future...  Read More >>

Dive into the compelling life of Mary, a brave woman who lived through slavery in America.  Read More >>

I Was Born in the Forest encapsulates the freedom struggle of Africans brought to the Americas in the bowels of...  Read More >>

Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...  Read More >>

I Was Born in the Forest encapsulates the freedom struggle of Africans brought to the Americas in the bowels of...  Read More >>

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan 'A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent...  Read More >>

Inviting the reader to accompany him on his own journey of discovery, Ross recounts the processes by which northerners...  Read More >>

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan 'A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent...  Read More >>

Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives provides a new, innovative conceptual framework for describing...  Read More >>

In the U.S. Civil War, Mary Richards, a free Black woman, risked her life posing as an illiterate slave to spy in...  Read More >>

A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans.The...  Read More >>

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This Element examines the use of slavery metaphors in ancient Judaism and Christianity in the context of the social...  Read More >>

This Element examines the use of slavery metaphors in ancient Judaism and Christianity in the context of the social...  Read More >>

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection...  Read More >>

"DEATH OF THE NEGRO volume 1 ""The ancestors of the Negro in America brought their songs with them into slavery""[Negro...  Read More >>