Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

The historical study shows that between the end of the 18th and the middle of the 19th century, German activists increasingly networked with abolit...

Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sough...

Kenneth S. Sacks explores how America's first public intellectual, determined to live self-reliantly, wrestled with his personal philosophy and eve...

'A gripping, galloping narrative that challenges perceptions to the very last page', Marie Claire 'David Diop has opened up a new way of thinking ...

Slavery and the trade that fuelled it underpinned Britains economic position throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unsurprisingly, w...

For more than four centuries Britons have been dominating and colonising other peoples and territories. Britains Empires tells that story without f...

Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost ...

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in ...

Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to A...