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Goodness to Go: A Handbook for Humanitarians

by Fran I. Hamilton

Goodness To Go-A Handbook for Humanitarians is your personal guide to inspire, clarify, mobilize, and sustain your compassion in action. Self-care is essential as you discover ways to contribute to your community...


The Abolition Crusade And Its Consequences - Four Periods Of American History

by Hilary A. Herbert

The author, in the following pages, is undertaking to write a connected story of events that happened, most of them, in his lifetime, and as to many of the most important of which he has vivid recollections;...


The Ruling Race

by James Oakes

This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders...


The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870

by Hugh Thomas

After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes...


Debating the Slave Trade: Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759-1815

by Srividhya Swaminathan

Srividhya Swaminathan examines contemporary books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate. Suggesting that the debate to...


African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

by Dea H. Boster

Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This...


Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860

by Max Grivno

Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants,...


The Slaves' Gamble

by Gene Allen Smith

Images of American slavery conjure up cotton plantations and African American slaves locked in bondage until the Civil War. Yet early on in the nineteenth century the state of slavery was very different, and...


Sojourner Truth's America

by Margaret Washington

This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most magnetic and influential characters: Sojourner Truth. In an in-depth account of this amazing activist,...


Translating Slavery Volume I: Gender and Race in French Women?s Writing, 1783-1823

by Doris Kadish & Françoise Massardier-Kenney

Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race. By focusing on antislavery writing by French women during the revolutionary period, when a number...


Translating Slavery Volume II: Ourika and Its Progeny

by Doris Kadish & Françoise Massardier-Kenney

The second volume of this revised and expanded edition of Translating Slavery Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery...


Slavery's Constitution

by David Waldstreicher

Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery’s place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And...


Escape from Slavery

by Francis Bok & Edward Tivnan

In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity.

May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and...


'We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident...': An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roots of Racism and Slavery in America

by Kenneth N. Addison

'We hold these truths to be self evident_' An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roots of Racism and Slavery in America delves into the philosophical, historical, socio/cultural and political evolution of racism...


The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

by Marcus Rediker

On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain,...


Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade

by Thomas Norman Dewolf & Sharon Morgan

Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on

 

“We embarked on this journey because we believe America must overcome the racial barriers that divide us, the...


Frederick Douglass: A Biography

by Booker T. Washington & Charles W. Chesnutt

This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within...


Slave and Citizen

by Frank Tannenbaum

Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin...


New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

by Jill Lepore

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner

Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, ten fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising....


I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives

by Yuval Taylor & Charles Johnson

Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most...