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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...

This book argues that influential historians have been unable to offer a complete account of ante-bellum-era American slavery because of...

Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate...

Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all...

While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question...

Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public historians,...

In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection-what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S....

The centrality of the American Revolution in the antebellum slavery controversy In the two decades before the Civil...

Examining the literature of slavery and race before the Civil War, Maurice Lee demonstrates for the first time exactly how...

Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History "Impressively researched and beautifully crafted…a brilliant account of slavery in Virginia...

Booker T. Washington recalled his childhood in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. He was born in 1856 on the Burroughs...

First published in September 1992, the book traces the nature and development of the fundamental legal relationships among slaves, masters,...

In this book, prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law...

This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development in the generations between the restoration...

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