Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demon...

In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave com...

In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting thre...

Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring intellectual and historical clarity to our understanding of enslaved people...

Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famou...

By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national fo...

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research...

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research...

This complex account by a German governess examines households, families, and slavery in Brazil, and bears witness to how the world the slaveholder...

A concise, reasoned, practical case for why Britain should pay reparations for historic wrongs to present Caribbean inhabitants. Britain owes repa...

This groundbreaking study offers a rare window into the history of slavery in the Sudan, with particular attention to the relationships between sla...

In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men ...

This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarce...

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs is the first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a pr...

Original and revelatory.David Blight, author of Frederick DouglassAvery O. Craven Award FinalistA Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of t...

Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. St...

This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery. It illustrates how different d...

What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in Augu...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a pr...

The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind t...

The story of the African-American Montier family traces its roots to Philadelphias first mayor, the White Quaker Humphrey Morrey, appointed c. 1691...

*AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A Guardian Best Summer Read*Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Gua...

2022 W. Turrentine Jackson Award Winner 2022 David J. Weber Prize Winner   In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texasa hotly contested land where ...

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United St...

Impressive[Readers] will be rewarded with greater understanding of historical developments that changed the relationship between consumers and prod...

Volume II delves into the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French Revolution and the changes it wrought. The ...

Este libro ofrece un estudio comprensivo de las opiniones que Bartolomé de Las Casa expresa sobre la esclavitud africana en las Indias. Yendo más a...

2022 W. Turrentine Jackson Award Winner 2022 David J. Weber Prize Winner   In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texasa hotly contested land where ...

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery m...

'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man tha...

This is a story about a dangerous ideathat all men are created equalwhich ignited revolutions in America, France and Haiti; burst across Europe in ...

Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for re...

Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield un...

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, i...

What would it mean to get over slavery? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of ...

This volume examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth centu...

The first full-length study of Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland in 1846Frederick Douglass (181895) was not the only fugitive from American sla...

The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues o...

After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of anti-slavery as a vital part of their national...