Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New Worl...

During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers - enslaved and free - allied themselves with the cause of abolition and ...

The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early ...

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed h...

From the Darkness Cometh the Light (1891) is a memoir by Lucy A. Delaney. Published in St. Louis in the last year of Delaneys life, the work is reg...

Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, who visited President Linco...

Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent liberation of nearly two hundred ...

More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and i...

During the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires. ...

When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the live...

'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will a...

Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in N...

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith. Written while Smith was living in freedom on his own...

Sojourner Truth, one of the most revered figures in American history, explains her road to liberation, spiritual enlightenment and the development ...

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although her career peaked with the publication of ab...

Originally published in 1847, William W. Brown offers a first-person narrative that details his enslavement and the daring escape that ultimately l...

Josephine Brown presents a detailed biography of her father, William Wells Brown, who was born on a plantation but escaped to become a successful a...

While working for the Underground Railroad and helped escaped slaves to safety, William Still kept meticulous records. These notes originally were ...

The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island - Dominica, also a former British colony. Domini...

How can the simple choice of a mens suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown...

WINNER, NEW JERSEY STUDIES ACADEMIC ALLIANCE BOOK AWARD James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeto...

The dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals of the Ameri...

In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan,...

In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigatin...

There are 27 million slaves living in the world todaymore than at any time in history. Three hundred thousand of them are impoverished children in...

Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engageme...

Walter Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium, including continued forms of oppression from...

Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during th...

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval ...

Weve railed against injustice for decade upon decade, a lifetime of struggle and progress and enlightenment that we see etched in Fredrick Douglass...