Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of th...

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 Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing th...

A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can o...

This local and regional study fills the gap in documenting Youngstowns role in the Underground Railroad in New York State. It also offers further p...

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A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it? Millions of people today are still enslaved; ...

Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, ...

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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...

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

From the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 through this state's abolition of slavery in 1865, liberty was always the goal of the vast...

Before the American Civil War, men and women who imagined a multiracial American society (social visionaries) included Protestant sacred music i...

The African American presence in St. Louis began in 1763 with the arrival of several free men of color who accompanied Pierre Laclede from New O...

While slavery and secession divided the Union during the American Civil War, they also severed the Northern and Southern dioceses of the Protestant...

Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back...

In this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American, Carribean or Br...

Frederick Douglass, a former slave, became the leader of the abolitionist movement. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Sl...

Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back...

This book tells the story of Balithe paradise island of the Pacificits rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a...

Throughout the nineteenth century British governments engaged in a global campaign against the slave trade. They sought through coercion and diplom...

Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, bu...

John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown's raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Fe...

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civi...

Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power an...

Joaquim Nabuco, for more than three decades a dominant figure in the literary, intellectual and political life of Brazil, was born in Recife in the...

Winner of the Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the...

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the...

Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven AwardFew books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.Ari Kel...

The time has come now, Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a Proclamation of Emancipation. Lincoln's effort t...

Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it pro...

Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in ...

A riveting narrative of a New England slave boy caught up in the American Revolution A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, w...

Often called America's original sin, slavery is arguably the greatest stain on the nation's history. From their introduction in 17th-century Virgin...

Frederick Douglasss fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relations...

From John Adams to the women who supported abolition, this volume provides a comprehensive history of the abolitionist movement. Beginning with a h...