Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

The compelling story of a talented potter, enslaved by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century.He ...

Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. Yet from their dusty footprints and the umpteen small clues...

Historians born during and after the Civil Rights movement have struggled to take the proslav­ery and pro-secession arguments of the eighteenth- an...

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us to...

* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A spectacular achievement ANTHONY DOERR Extravagantly beautiful DAILY MAIL One of the greatest writers of all time ...

More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Shadrach Howard, David Ruggles, Frederick Douglass, and othe...

Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth century Delves into the hazards of the slave trade, its recruitm...

How did the evil nature of slavery become enshrined in law in Great Britain? What drove the change in public perception? What were the key victorie...

The purpose of this book is to excavate and recover a wealth of under-examined artworks and research materials directly to interrogate, debate and ...

This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Mu...

Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society identifies the immediate and remote reasons for the Balaiada revolt in Maranhão, Brazil, analyzing the special...

Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society identifies the immediate and remote reasons for the Balaiada revolt in Maranhão, Brazil, analyzing the special...

Captivity and enslavement were characteristic experiences of Greek Christians in the late medieval Mediterranean. During this time, Muslim Turks an...

Captured by Napoleons forces off the coast at Brighton in the year of Trafalgar, the fourteen year old Scot, Alexander Stewart, survived ten years ...

Captured by Napoleons forces off the coast at Brighton in the year of Trafalgar, the fourteen year old Scot, Alexander Stewart, survived ten years ...

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

Sojourner Truth: formerly enslaved person and unforgettable abolitionist of the mid-nineteenth century, a figure of imposing physique, a riveting p...