Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide ins...

Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding of human trafficking and related...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fiv...

It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of s...

A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survival Atlantic slave societies were notor...

Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian...

Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christi...

In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captivesand, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ot...

Mary Ann Shadds pamphlet A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada West is, as the title promises, a settler guide designed to inform prospective i...

A little-known story of mutiny and murder illustrating the centrality of smuggling and slavery in early American society On the night of June 1, 17...

A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this pa...

In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced...

In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerce...

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this...

A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.Publishers WeeklyThe eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Whos...

In the late eighteenth century, planters in the Caribbean and the American South insisted that only Black people could labor on plantations, arguin...

William H.H. Johnson's The Life of Wm. H.H. Johnson, from 1839 to 1900, and the New Race (1904) is the only classical slave narrative in the black ...

Calvin Schermerhorns provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate ...

How important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy to fight slavery In Fighting for the Higher Law...

European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbuss arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonies...

Engaging the past, the present, and the future, The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty shows how the lived experi...

Allan D. Cooper demonstrates how the resistance to slavery served to unveil the nature of freedom that made possible the abolition movement and ant...