Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

'Absorbing' - Guardian'Arnold-Forster is a shrewd critic and delightful guide . . . She carries weighty learning lightly embracing everything rele...

Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedent...

A fascinating account of two eighteenth-century princes from East Africa, their travels, and their encounters with the British Empire and slavery I...

Jawhar Aftabachi was enslaved as a child by the Ottomans in the Black Sea region in the early sixteenth century. He was then sold to the Ottoman ad...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** Extraordinarya great American biography (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the ...

In this compelling work, Sascha Auerbach offers a bold new historical interpretation of late-stage slavery, its long-term legacies, and its entangl...

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disa...

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After...

Sarah and Angelina Grimkethe Grimke sistersare revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in ...

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15...