Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide ins...

Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding of human trafficking and related...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fiv...

It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of s...

A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survival Atlantic slave societies were notor...

Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian...

Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christi...

In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captivesand, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ot...

Mary Ann Shadds pamphlet A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada West is, as the title promises, a settler guide designed to inform prospective i...

A little-known story of mutiny and murder illustrating the centrality of smuggling and slavery in early American society On the night of June 1, 17...

A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this pa...

In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced...

In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerce...

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this...

A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.Publishers WeeklyThe eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Whos...

In the late eighteenth century, planters in the Caribbean and the American South insisted that only Black people could labor on plantations, arguin...

William H.H. Johnson's The Life of Wm. H.H. Johnson, from 1839 to 1900, and the New Race (1904) is the only classical slave narrative in the black ...

Calvin Schermerhorns provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate ...

How important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy to fight slavery In Fighting for the Higher Law...

European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbuss arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonies...

Engaging the past, the present, and the future, The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty shows how the lived experi...

Allan D. Cooper demonstrates how the resistance to slavery served to unveil the nature of freedom that made possible the abolition movement and ant...

A bold rethinking of the Haitian Revolution reveals the roots of the only successful slave uprising in the modern world.Unearthing the progenitors ...

In late November of 1858 two enslaved Black womenCelia Grayson, age twenty-two, and Eliza Grayson, age twentyescaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls househ...

'Send Back the Money!' is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church ...

In musical, evocative language, her poems imagine the what-if-that-almost-was of Scotlands best-loved Bard, following Robert Burns into the life he...

The fugitive slave known as Three-Fingered Jack terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans ...

The fugitive slave known as Three-Fingered Jack terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans ...

In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story o...

Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet Jacobs have written her r...

David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws pro...

Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema   From the East African and Red Sea c...

A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period betwee...

What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such histo...

What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such histo...

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. Th...

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A warm, sweet love story, and a thought-provoking examination of the British slave trade and its legacy MARIAN KEYESWhen Layla and Andy first meet,...

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

Since the turn of the twentieth century, human trafficking has animated public discourses, policy debates, and moral panics in the United States. T...

Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Alla...

'In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty - it will spring back from the roots, for they are numero...