Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Featuring a new introduction for this new edition, The Conjure Woman is probably Chesnutt's most powerful work, a collection of stories set in post...

How important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy to fight slavery In Fighting for the Higher Law...

This book investigates the phenomenon of slavery and other forms of servitude experienced by people of African or indigenous origin who were taken ...

'...a fully grown man utterly broken by what he had experienced, physically and mentally exhausted with physical evidence showing the overt signs o...

'[Pinckney] reveals himself to be a skilful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography' The New York Times In th...

Ambitious, defiant, angry and gripping . . . the bitter story of slavery through the experience of four women Guardian'Jackie Kays work, formally e...

A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilitie...

On Human Bondagea critical reexamination of Orlando Pattersons groundbreaking Slavery and Social Deathassesses how his theories have stood the test...

A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that unco...

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

This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variet...

Winner of the 2022 Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Historical-Academic Nonfiction In Chained to History, Steven J. Brady centers slavery in America's ...

Puglieses MoreThanHuman Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that morethanhuman diasporic entitiessuch as...

Puglieses MoreThanHuman Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that morethanhuman diasporic entitiessuch as...

The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighterwhich brings new insights into Britains involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved...