Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in c...

Entangled Otherness explores the dynamics of cross-dressing and gender performance in contemporary francophone Caribbean cultures through a range o...

Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves brings to life the unique contribution by French women during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the hist...

This book investigates memorials and monuments to slavery throughout the African diaspora, but with an emphasis on Europe. It analyses not only the...

There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debat...

Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipWinner, Harriet Tubman PrizeA stunning work of popular historythe ...

In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited CollectionInterrogates how artists have created new ways to imagine ...

Winner of the 2022 Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Historical-Academic Nonfiction In Chained to History, Steven J. Brady centers slavery in America's ...

In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by...

A fascinating study of freedom and slavery, told through the life of an escaped slave who built a life in the Hudson Valley In 1793 James F. Brown ...

African American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political c...

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or at...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, ...

This book reconsiders the career of an important, controversial, but neglected figure in this history of Irish Presbyterianism. The Revd Isaac Nels...