Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Throughout the nineteenth century British governments engaged in a global campaign against the slave trade. They sought through coercion and diplom...

Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, bu...

John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown's raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Fe...

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civi...

Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power an...

Joaquim Nabuco, for more than three decades a dominant figure in the literary, intellectual and political life of Brazil, was born in Recife in the...

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

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the...

Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven AwardFew books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.Ari Kel...

The time has come now, Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a Proclamation of Emancipation. Lincoln's effort t...

Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it pro...

Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in ...

A riveting narrative of a New England slave boy caught up in the American Revolution A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, w...

Often called America's original sin, slavery is arguably the greatest stain on the nation's history. From their introduction in 17th-century Virgin...

Frederick Douglasss fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relations...

From John Adams to the women who supported abolition, this volume provides a comprehensive history of the abolitionist movement. Beginning with a h...

For nearly 150 years, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the famed antislavery newspaper The Liberator, has been represented by scholars, educat...

This local and regional study fills the gap in documenting Youngstowns role in the Underground Railroad in New York State. It also offers further p...