Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University   Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and S...

My parents were slaves in New York State. My masters sons-in-law came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes,...

The edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Lands, Austria, Germany, It...

This study aims to understand the materiality of Sabas ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by u...

This study aims to understand the materiality of Sabas ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by u...

Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividi...

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to ...

The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a desc...

This book is the primer on human trafficking in North America. In recent years, Americans have woken up to the reality that human trafficking is ...

Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motiva...

One of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean Captives of Conquest is one of the first books to e...

Asks how we can better understand a politics of refusal Writing a new story of Black politics, Jump emerges from the practice of enslaved Africans ...

Asks how we can better understand a politics of refusal Writing a new story of Black politics, Jump emerges from the practice of enslaved Africans ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fiv...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy ...

A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historianAmerican Purgatory will forever cha...

Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (19421995) was a poet, h...

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation...

The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped in...