Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

A writer in search of his roots discovers stories of African American struggle, sacrifice, and achievement. In The Garretts of Columbia, author Dav...

In recent years, stories of religious universities and institutions grappling with their slave-owning past have made headlines in the news. People ...

Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of peo...

Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year 2022Shortlisted for the 2021 Highland Book PrizeScots were involved in every stage of the slave trade: fr...

Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth century. This was especially the case in New Jersey, the la...

During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike cra...

Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pr...

Beginning with its establishment in the early 1830s, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) recognized the need to reach and consolidate a divers...

This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, suffragist, and one o...

This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society...

Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in ...

A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuries Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and soc...

They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people...

This book is a historical account of the slave trading system of the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century and of the attempt...

Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, th...

A vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding and its historical relationship with Jesuit universities in the United States The Society...

A vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding and its historical relationship with Jesuit universities in the United States The Society...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYA New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple tha...

America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history influenced the use of Scripture. It explores th...