Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Recent years have seen a growing body of literature dedicated to memories of slavery in the Anglophone world, yet little has been done to approach ...

The Haitian Revolution (17911804) was an event of monumental world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic literary history of t...

Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Landsmore commonly known as the Freedmens Bureauassumed the ...

Many thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It ...

Herman Melvilles The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in hislifetime, and it includes his two most famous sho...

In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to w...

In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restr...

A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders  While recent hist...

At only twentyone square miles in area, Bermuda saw slaves and slaveholders working and living closer together than in other societies. The colonys...

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed in 1865, has long been viewed as a definitive break with the nations past by abo...

Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the...

Winner, 2021 René Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, giv...

A valuable narrative of the often paradoxical and conflicting human bonds between female owners and the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba In the...

This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 16...

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

Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from pea...

Colonialism and Slavery in Performance brings together original archival research with recent critical perspectives to argue for the importance of ...

Expanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series Britains Black Past, this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. Eve...

Expanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series Britains Black Past, this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. Eve...

*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist...

'Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. T...

In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew througho...