Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong en...

From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on...

Tunisia is known for being the first Muslim country to abolish slavery during the modern period. Although Ahmed Bey, the countrys ruler in the mid-...

The absorbing documents collected in Slavery and Secession in Arkansastrace Arkansass tortuous road to secession and war. Drawn from contemporarypa...

Argentina has spectacular natural wonders, exceptional landscapes and is a unique country but it is known as The Whitest Nation in South America. W...

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed freedom for Americans from the domination of Great Britain, yet for millions of African Americas caught ...

In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while...

In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in Amer...

How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the large...

Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revoluti...

For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth...

How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roedi...

A Common Man's Survival After Being Captured at the Battle of Dunbar and Sold into Servitude in America In the winter of 1650-51, one hundred fif...

The relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his two most influential ancestors, his mother and the Virginia planter, a slaveholder, a shadowy gran...

The Old South sheds new light on the people and events that shaped the South. It deftly shows how the Souths diverse people interacted with each ot...

Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-cr...

In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States had ...

This groundbreaking history documents the roots of slavery in everyday colonial Canada and the extreme measures taken by subsequent generations to ...

When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a dazzling Washington social event that joined an Ober...

Frederick Douglass was born enslaved in February 1818, but from this most humble of beginnings, he rose to become a world-famous orator, newspaper ...

'I am a free-born woman, and not a slave of anyone' , Manuy bint Khalfan, Speaking to a British Agency in Sharjah on 24th October 1938. Manuy bint ...

This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the islands slaves to the end of all forced or coerc...

A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered...

Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (18361932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and...

Lincoln's significance in the history of slavery and emancipation, the Union's preservation and the formation of a new national vision is unquestio...

Winner of the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association, and widely acclaimed by educators and students, Abina and the I...

In the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to...

How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roedi...

This collection of essays surveys the practices, behaviors, and beliefs that developed during slavery in the Western Hemisphere, and the lingeri...