Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Between c. 700-300 BCE, the ancient Greeks developed a vivid imaginary of the world's peoples. Ranging from the light-skinned, gray-eyed Thracians ...

What would it mean to get over slavery? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of ...

This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 165...

Ranging from chattel slavery, through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work that investigates how pivotal decisions have establ...

Slavery is one of humanitys most ancient and persistent inequities.  It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Weste...

Slavery is one of humanitys most ancient and persistent inequities.  It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Weste...

Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipWinner, Harriet Tubman PrizeSlaves for Peanuts plumbs a fascinatin...

The first historical account of the dramatic growth of Christianity in Western Tanzania during the twentieth century and of the role of former slav...

Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S. memorial museums that foc...

Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S. memorial museums that foc...

Servants Abroad presents manuscript journals by four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the second half of the eighte...

This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule. It focuses on the northern Islamic re...

This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule. It focuses on the northern Islamic re...

This book is the first publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, which was org...

From David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, some of the most influential conceptu...

This is the fourth publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, which was organis...

This book is the third publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, present and future, which was org...

This book is the third publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, present and future, which was org...

Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration on plantation slavery in the...

Featuring a new introduction for this new edition, The Conjure Woman is probably Chesnutt's most powerful work, a collection of stories set in post...

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

This book investigates the phenomenon of slavery and other forms of servitude experienced by people of African or indigenous origin who were taken ...

'...a fully grown man utterly broken by what he had experienced, physically and mentally exhausted with physical evidence showing the overt signs o...

'[Pinckney] reveals himself to be a skilful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography' The New York Times In th...