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Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown...

This book is about the origins of slavery, the many countries that participated, and a few things I personally experienced....

James J. Gigantino II shatters the easy dichotomy between free and slave states in early America. The Ragged Road to...

By centering the practical and figurative significance of the Ohio River as a political border, a cultural boundary, and an...

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most...

Shelley Lubben was a porn star. Now she tells the hardcore truth. In Truth Behind the Fantasy of...

During the 1850s and 1860s more than 100,000 people escaped slavery in the American South by following the Underground Railroad,...

The author, in the following pages, is undertaking to write a connected story of events that happened, most of them,...

Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports...

Mary Prince was the first woman slave to write of her experience. Her recollections are vivid, powerful, and lyrical. Upon...

A collection of essays on Roman freedmen in the Roman Republic and Empire. Editor: Ramsby, Teresa Editor: Bell, Sinclair Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Illu......

Countering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune...

This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within...

Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward...

This thoughtful book explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation of a...

Other Music: with no sense of new school irony they achieve an interesting mix of structured improv jazz, jam band,...

The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas...

A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African...

Under the leadership of Samuel Adams, patriot propagandists deliberately and conscientiously kept the issue of slavery off the agenda as...

This compelling narrative offers a firsthand account of a couple's remarkable flight from slavery in the antebellum South. William and...