Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

#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...

The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind t...

The story of the African-American Montier family traces its roots to Philadelphias first mayor, the White Quaker Humphrey Morrey, appointed c. 1691...

*AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A Guardian Best Summer Read*Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Gua...

2022 W. Turrentine Jackson Award Winner 2022 David J. Weber Prize Winner   In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texasa hotly contested land where ...

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United St...

Impressive[Readers] will be rewarded with greater understanding of historical developments that changed the relationship between consumers and prod...

Volume II delves into the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French Revolution and the changes it wrought. The ...

Este libro ofrece un estudio comprensivo de las opiniones que Bartolomé de Las Casa expresa sobre la esclavitud africana en las Indias. Yendo más a...

2022 W. Turrentine Jackson Award Winner 2022 David J. Weber Prize Winner   In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texasa hotly contested land where ...

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery m...

'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man tha...

This is a story about a dangerous ideathat all men are created equalwhich ignited revolutions in America, France and Haiti; burst across Europe in ...

Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for re...

Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield un...

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, i...

What would it mean to get over slavery? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of ...

This volume examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth centu...

The first full-length study of Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland in 1846Frederick Douglass (181895) was not the only fugitive from American sla...

The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues o...

After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of anti-slavery as a vital part of their national...