Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that without cotton, you have no modern industry. Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton brough...

William Lloyd Garrison's life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer. None who have studie...

The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 1831a phase marked by massive...

During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worke...

When a decades-long court battle resulted in her familys freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of Amer...

Freeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Har...

Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would lat...

Eighteenth-century Britain was the worlds leading centre for the slave trade. Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, author of the Duff Cooper prize-w...

This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Bo...

Alfred L. Brophy's University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Univers...

For the past forty years, prominent pro-life activists, judges and politicians have invoked the history and legacy of American slavery to elucidate...

Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean: The...

SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021 An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about ...