Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

In a time of division, we can have no better prophetic voice to frame today's discussions of justice and freedom than a one-legged fugitive slave w...

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Reveals how, through auctions, early Americans learned capitalism As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Ha...

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America discover his Narrative this Black History Month. ...

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were ...

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were ...

The Water Cries represents an ambitious search for the location of the slave auction houses in one of America's most storied cities. The author plu...

This fascinating study traces sixteenth-century German colonialism in Venezuela through the lens of racialized capitalism and the subsequent memori...

Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution unearths a long-hidden factor that led to the Constitutional Convention in 178...

A seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian...

Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the U.S. Constitu...

'A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieYorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journ...

Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic...

Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlighte...

The latest in the groundbreaking series of photobooks on LGBTQ life around the world, an intimate, personal collection of photographs on the queer ...

The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, di...

The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to p...

In the aftermath of the September 1862 Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued the most significant presidential decree in American...

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of Creolization in terms of duration, temporality, pop...