Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

In this compelling work, Sascha Auerbach offers a bold new historical interpretation of late-stage slavery, its long-term legacies, and its entangl...

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disa...

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After...

Sarah and Angelina Grimkethe Grimke sistersare revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in ...

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15...

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, an...

The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation's first HBCUs In The D...

Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the mora...

Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the mora...

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid examines the largest and most complex freedom suit litigated in the highest court of the Spanish empire at the end of ...

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid examines the largest and most complex freedom suit litigated in the highest court of the Spanish empire at the end of ...

After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Sim...

Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Me...

Does the Qur'an promote the abolition of slavery? If so, why had the slave trade been allowed to operate across the Muslim world for over a millenn...