Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew througho...

The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom...

In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people-men, women, a...

In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people-men, women, a...

We often think of Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution. Justin A. Nystrom's original study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans ta...

One of the preeminent Black scholars of his era traces the life and bold aspirations of a man who devoted his life to opposing slavery at any cost....

If I know my own heart, I can truly say, that I have not a selfish wish in placing myself under the patronage of the [American Colonization] Societ...

In On the Edge of Freedom, David G. Smith breaks new ground by illuminating the unique development of antislavery sentiment in south central Pennsy...

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without i...

Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early Americas abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative s...

Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper advertisements, this authoritative study describes the ...

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

The Ties that Bind explores in depth the close affinities that bound together anti-slavery activists in Britain and the USA during the middle decad...

The Ties that Bind explores in depth the close affinities that bound together anti-slavery activists in Britain and the USA during the middle decad...

Featuring a variety of disciplinary perspectives and analytical approaches, Celluloid Chains is the most comprehensive volume to date on films abou...

How can politicians and ordinary citizens face the racial past in a country that frames itself as colorblind? In her timely and provocative book, R...

In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her familys farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington, DC. As an ardent abolitionist, ...

#Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 finalist Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood examines three major currents in the historiography of B...

In 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. In crafting her com...

As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, US President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship...

Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution offers a fresh exploration of anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth ...

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This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugiti...

Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's ful...

Volume 1 in the new Cambridge World History of Slavery surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are dev...

As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

The Root and the Branch examines the relationship between the early labor movement and the crusade to abolish slavery between the early national pe...

Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender ...

A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literatu...

When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role...

Congressman James Mitchell Ashley, a member of the House of Representatives from 1858 to 1868, was the main sponsor of the Thirteenth Amendment to ...

A timely and provocative account of the Bibles role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slaveryOn July 2, 1822, Denmark Ves...

Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations o...

In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, ...

Meditations on the paradoxes generated around the ending of western slavery. In his tour-de-force Blind Memory, Marcus Wood read the visual archive...

Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterl...

This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities were ...

This book contributes to the debate over the culpability of the Trans-Atlantic Slave from various disciplinary perspectives. The general thesis tha...

Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, th...

In American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832- 1863, Peter O'Connor uses an innovative interdisciplinary approach to provide a corrective to s...

In December 1860, South Carolinians voted to abandon the Union, sparking the deadliest war in American history. Led by a proslavery movement that v...

Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into...

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon...