Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slavery As winter turned to spring in the year 169...

The growing appeal of abolitionism and its increasing success in converting Americans to the antislavery cause, a generation before the Civil War, ...

At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitali...

Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures...

Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures...

Peter Wood argues against the flawed interpretation of history found in the New York Times 1619 Project and asserts that the true origins of Americ...

An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and R...

Apparently innocuous, sugar is a substance which brings with it a profound disquiet, not least because of its direct links with the histories of sl...

The Haitian Revolution has generated responses from commentators in fields ranging from philosophy to historiography to twentieth-century literary ...

Newly available in paperback, this edition is an important volume of international significance, drawing together contributions from some of the le...

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. Puritan is an insult reserved f...

Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 is the result of decades of collaborations and conversations among academics...

A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustines religious, ethical, and political thoughtAugustine believed that slavery is permiss...

One of the earliest known published works written by an African author, The Interesting Narrative was a groundbreaking memoir that helped pave the ...

Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard ...

First appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in bondage, was both a bestsell...

Bars Fight, a ballad telling the tale of an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in a Massachusetts meadow, is the oldest known work ...

In Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black wo...

In its brief seven-year existence, the Freedmens Bureau became the epicenter of the debate about Reconstruction. Historians have only recently begu...

Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first t...

A Concise History of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settle...

* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A spectacular achievement ANTHONY DOERR Extravagantly beautiful DAILY MAIL One of the greatest writers of all time ...

Since 1776, America's Founding mythology has attempted to portray the Founding generation as creating a new world were liberty and freedom were ...

A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When ...

To either achieve or resist domination, some postcolonial and post slavery societies appropriate and contest the current memories on slavery. This ...

Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first t...

As historians have gradually come to recognize, the involvement of women was central to the anti-slavery cause in both Britain and the United State...

The island nation of Iceland is known for many things majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood but racial diversity is not one ...