Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demon...

In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave com...

In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting thre...

Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring intellectual and historical clarity to our understanding of enslaved people...

Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famou...

By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national fo...

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research...

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research...

This complex account by a German governess examines households, families, and slavery in Brazil, and bears witness to how the world the slaveholder...

A concise, reasoned, practical case for why Britain should pay reparations for historic wrongs to present Caribbean inhabitants. Britain owes repa...

This groundbreaking study offers a rare window into the history of slavery in the Sudan, with particular attention to the relationships between sla...

In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men ...

This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarce...

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs is the first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a pr...

Original and revelatory.David Blight, author of Frederick DouglassAvery O. Craven Award FinalistA Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of t...

Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. St...

This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery. It illustrates how different d...

What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in Augu...