Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

A bold rethinking of the Haitian Revolution reveals the roots of the only successful slave uprising in the modern world.Unearthing the progenitors ...

In late November of 1858 two enslaved Black womenCelia Grayson, age twenty-two, and Eliza Grayson, age twentyescaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls househ...

'Send Back the Money!' is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church ...

In musical, evocative language, her poems imagine the what-if-that-almost-was of Scotlands best-loved Bard, following Robert Burns into the life he...

The fugitive slave known as Three-Fingered Jack terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans ...

The fugitive slave known as Three-Fingered Jack terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans ...

In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story o...

Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet Jacobs have written her r...

David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws pro...

Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema   From the East African and Red Sea c...

A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period betwee...

What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such histo...

What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such histo...

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. Th...

GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 WATERSTONES: JANUARYS BEST BOOKS ...

A warm, sweet love story, and a thought-provoking examination of the British slave trade and its legacy MARIAN KEYESWhen Layla and Andy first meet,...

In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race...

Since the turn of the twentieth century, human trafficking has animated public discourses, policy debates, and moral panics in the United States. T...

Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Alla...

'In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty - it will spring back from the roots, for they are numero...