Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the...

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the fi...

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumula...

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume covers the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the selection of essays here lo...

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume looks at the eighteenth century, which saw the high point of the Atlantic slave trade. It...

Originally published as a collection in 2006, the essays in this volume discuss the reasons for the end of the slave trade and the institution of s...

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of ghost tours, frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban man...

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phaseof American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000ensla...

A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--a well-poli...

Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, ...

For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference ...

This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion. Combining methods from the history of emotions with th...

In recent years, the archives of the Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie (MCC), the Dutch West India Company (WIC) and the notarial archives of Amster...

This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars w...

In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously r...

Africas modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts. From the fifteenth century when millions of Africans were force...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

Originally published in 1917, this book is an investigation of industrial and social conditions in the British West Indies in the effort to reach a...

A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (182893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he shou...

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation...

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through wa...

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest a...

This book examines Théodore Géricaults images of black men, women and children who suffered slaverys trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth ...

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global...

The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination brings together ten original essays that explore the many connections between the...

In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violen...

By exploring the role of Oberlin - the college and the community - in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J. Brent Morris establishes...

In a time of division, we can have no better prophetic voice to frame today's discussions of justice and freedom than a one-legged fugitive slave w...

Forthcoming

Reveals how, through auctions, early Americans learned capitalism As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Ha...

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America discover his Narrative this Black History Month. ...