Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014 WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE 2015 One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the S...

The institution of slavery has always depended on myriad ways of enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geog...

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory...

Slavery remains rampant worldwide. At least 27 million men, women, and children are enslaved today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indenture...

A mother can never be free until she finds her children... The Good Morning America Book Club Pick February 2023 is a soaring novel inspired by tru...

'More than lives up to the hype' Observer'Set to become a publishing sensation' Kirsty Lang, BBC Front Row'An astounding achievement' Sunday Times'...

The shocking first-hand account of one mans remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. Why had I not died in my y...

A riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ance...

Abducted from Africa, sold in America. A deeply affecting record of an e...

This new collection of essays based upon a conference at the University of Huddersfield, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, explore...

David Bristow offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known characters from South Africa, past and very past. There is Krotoa, the Khoi...

Slavery is a recurring subject in works by the contemporary black writers in Britain Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred DAguiar, yet their ret...

A Story of Two Birminghams examines the roles played by two cities and the areas in which they are situated in the long history of people of Africa...

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In retelling the story of the radical Alexander Hamilton, Parenti rewrites the history of early America and the global economy. For much of the twe...

This book traces the story of how and why thousands of Scots made money from buying and selling humans a story we need to own. We need to admit tha...

Throughout time people have been taken into that tragic and barbaric practice known as slavery, but the period through the 17th, 18th, and 19th cen...