Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.”—Ari ...

"The time has come now," Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a "Proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln's effo...

Becoming Free in the Cotton South challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the begin...

Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relation...

In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that ""without cotton, you have no modern industry."" Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton br...

William Lloyd Garrison's life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer. None who have studie...

During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worke...

Eighteenth-century Britain was the world’s leading centre for the slave trade. Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, author of the Duff Cooper prize-...

This book posits that the American Revolution - waged to form a ""more perfect union"" - still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major f...

In the 1830s, the abolitionist movement gained remarkable momentum due in large measure to the establishment of the American Anti-Slavery Societ...