Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world...

'A fascinating and rigorous debunking of everything I thought I knew about nostalgia' - Pandora Sykes 'Absorbing' - Guardian'Arnold-Forster is a sh...

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works.The pre-eminent American slave n...

How the death of a fifteen-year-old girl aboard the slave ship Recovery shook the British establishment. On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of ...

Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of th...

In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race...

What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many peopl...

Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slaverys origins and the beginnings of the Blac...

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

A work of synthesis on plantation slavery in nineteenth century Sokoto caliphate, engaging with major debates on internal African slavery, on the m...

Financial Gothic explores the persistent concern of American Gothic literature with finance – and finance as having always been a gothic phenomenon...

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

A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered...

Emotions were central to the ways that slaveholders perpetuated slavery, as well as to the ways that enslaved people survived and challenged bondag...