Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

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...

Ambitious, defiant, angry and gripping . . . the bitter story of slavery through the experience of four women Guardian'Jackie Kays work, formally e...

A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilitie...

On Human Bondagea critical reexamination of Orlando Pattersons groundbreaking Slavery and Social Deathassesses how his theories have stood the test...

A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that unco...

Winner of the Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the...

This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variet...

Winner of the 2022 Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Historical-Academic Nonfiction In Chained to History, Steven J. Brady centers slavery in America's ...

Puglieses MoreThanHuman Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that morethanhuman diasporic entitiessuch as...

Puglieses MoreThanHuman Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that morethanhuman diasporic entitiessuch as...

The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighterwhich brings new insights into Britains involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Impeccably researched and seductively readabletells the story of Sam Sharpes revolution manqué, an...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Haunting . . . The writing is often breathtaking, brutality amplified through perfectly crafted prose.' The Times'Extraor...

Meron Lemma couldn't know there was a fate worse than wasting away as a poor teenager in the Ethiopian slum where she was born.Desperate to create ...

People, young and old, need stars to guide them. They need models to construct their own identity, to build their self-esteem, to change the way th...

More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the Unit...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund. The Persistenc...

After Britains Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, a squadron of Royal Navy vessels was sent to the West Coast of Africa tasked with suppress...

This book is an examination of the island of St Helenas involvement in slave trade abolition. After the establishment of a British Vice-Admiralty c...

In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive...

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a ...

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true s...

This book is an exercise in ethical criticism. It draws on and works with ideas and suggestions from two of its notable exponents, Wayne C. Booth a...

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art ...

The words pride and prejudice became the title of Jane Austen's most famous novel, but the history of the phrase before Austen is less famous. I...