Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States had ...

This groundbreaking history documents the roots of slavery in everyday colonial Canada and the extreme measures taken by subsequent generations to ...

When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a dazzling Washington social event that joined an Ober...

Frederick Douglass was born enslaved in February 1818, but from this most humble of beginnings, he rose to become a world-famous orator, newspaper ...

'I am a free-born woman, and not a slave of anyone' , Manuy bint Khalfan, Speaking to a British Agency in Sharjah on 24th October 1938. Manuy bint ...

This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the islands slaves to the end of all forced or coerc...

A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered...

Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (18361932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and...

Lincoln's significance in the history of slavery and emancipation, the Union's preservation and the formation of a new national vision is unquestio...

Winner of the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association, and widely acclaimed by educators and students, Abina and the I...

In the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to...

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...

This collection of essays surveys the practices, behaviors, and beliefs that developed during slavery in the Western Hemisphere, and the lingeri...