Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on...

Tunisia is known for being the first Muslim country to abolish slavery during the modern period. Although Ahmed Bey, the countrys ruler in the mid-...

The absorbing documents collected in Slavery and Secession in Arkansastrace Arkansass tortuous road to secession and war. Drawn from contemporarypa...

Argentina has spectacular natural wonders, exceptional landscapes and is a unique country but it is known as The Whitest Nation in South America. W...

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed freedom for Americans from the domination of Great Britain, yet for millions of African Americas caught ...

In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while...

In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in Amer...

How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the large...

Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revoluti...

For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth...

How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roedi...

A Common Man's Survival After Being Captured at the Battle of Dunbar and Sold into Servitude in America In the winter of 1650-51, one hundred fif...

The relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his two most influential ancestors, his mother and the Virginia planter, a slaveholder, a shadowy gran...

The Old South sheds new light on the people and events that shaped the South. It deftly shows how the Souths diverse people interacted with each ot...

Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-cr...