Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume covers the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the selection of essays here lo...

A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-pol...

This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars w...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

Originally published in 1917, this book is an investigation of industrial and social conditions in the British West Indies in the effort to reach a...

This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteent...

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global...

The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination brings together ten original essays that explore the many connections between the...

Reveals how, through auctions, early Americans learned capitalism As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Ha...

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America – discover his Narrative this Black History Month. ...

'A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieYorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journ...

Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic...

Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807. The history of Ghana attracts popul...

Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlighte...

The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, di...