Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

William Byrd II was a prominent eighteenth-century Virginian who at the time of his death owned over 180,000 acres and employed laborers and enslav...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the ...

The epic story of a man born into Caribbean slavery, who defeated Napoleons armies and crowned himself a free black king. How did a man born enslav...

The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2,248 enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was one of the we...

Slavery was illegal in Britain, but the transatlantic slave trade left a physical mark on the UK. There are monuments to philanthropists who made t...

For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

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

University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their fac...

Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on...

On the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southamp...

The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how t...

Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitio...

On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private interview with the President, promising t...

Regardless of whether they owned slaves, Southern whites lived in a world defined by slavery. As shown by their blaming British and Northern slave ...

How could the same person be classified by the US census as black in 1900, mulatto in 1910, and white in 1920? The history of categories used by th...

The Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the state violence and social devaluation that Black populations continue to suffer. Police shootings a...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Reveals the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston Instead of relying on the traditiona...

Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldiers unjust arrestIn 1879, toward the end of his life, the ...

During the age of empire, European and American colonists perpetrated one of historys most monstrous crimes: slavery. Millions of Africans were sub...

Get the lowdown on America's Bloodiest War-the Civil War-with this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining even...

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

This is the story of the so-called Negro Fort; the largest maroon community ever to emerge in North America. During the War of 1812, Edward Nicolls...

In the 1840s an organization of German noblemen, the Mainzner Adelsverein, attempted to settle thousands of German emigrants on the Texas frontier....

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

In the thirty-five years before the Civil War, it became increasingly difficult for Americans outside the world of politics to have frank and open ...

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...

A groundbreaking collection of abolitionist writing from throughout the history of American slaveryFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventuall...