Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

The Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the state violence and social devaluation that Black populations continue to suffer. Police shootings a...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Reveals the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston Instead of relying on the traditiona...

Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldiers unjust arrestIn 1879, toward the end of his life, the ...

During the age of empire, European and American colonists perpetrated one of historys most monstrous crimes: slavery. Millions of Africans were sub...

Get the lowdown on America's Bloodiest War-the Civil War-with this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining even...

Meditations on the paradoxes generated around the ending of western slavery. In his tour-de-force Blind Memory, Marcus Wood read the visual archive...

This is the story of the so-called Negro Fort; the largest maroon community ever to emerge in North America. During the War of 1812, Edward Nicolls...

In the 1840s an organization of German noblemen, the Mainzner Adelsverein, attempted to settle thousands of German emigrants on the Texas frontier....

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

In the thirty-five years before the Civil War, it became increasingly difficult for Americans outside the world of politics to have frank and open ...

How can politicians and ordinary citizens face the racial past in a country that frames itself as colorblind? In her timely and provocative book, R...

A groundbreaking collection of abolitionist writing from throughout the history of American slaveryFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventuall...

According to an Akan proverb, It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten. This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriots wor...

Winner, 2021 René Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, giv...

*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitio...

'One of the most important and timely books I've had the privilege to read' Corinne Fowler, author of Green Unpleasant LandA revelatory historical ...

Winner of the Casa de las América Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino José Maria, set a...