Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New Worl...

During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers - enslaved and free - allied themselves with the cause of abolition and ...

The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early ...

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed h...

From the Darkness Cometh the Light (1891) is a memoir by Lucy A. Delaney. Published in St. Louis in the last year of Delaneys life, the work is reg...

Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, who visited President Linco...

Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent liberation of nearly two hundred ...

More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and i...

During the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires. ...

When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the live...

'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will a...

Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in N...