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Christina G. Villegas
Modern Slavery: A Reference Handbook provides a thorough treatment of the evolving scope, nature, and contexts of modern slavery and a discussion of prevention and abolition efforts in an accessible…
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Richard Anderson
This unique and rich collection of narratives, written or dictated by formerly enslaved Africans between 1820 and 1876, offers a rare snapshot of African voices in the history of slavery…
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Martyn Percy
A hard-hitting critique of the Church of England as a social, spiritual and financial driver and beneficiary of the British Empire.
Santilla Chingaipe
The story of Australia’s Black convicts has been all but erased from our history. In this deeply researched and illuminating book, Santilla Chingaipe offers a fresh understanding of this fatal…
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Mary Frances Berry
"An acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them"--
Kate Transchel
Though slavery is illegal in all countries and banned by international law, there are an estimated 40 million slaves in the world today. A significant percentage of people trafficked into…
David W. Blight
A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University
Haroon Bashir
This book charts the history of how abolitionism became the hegemonic position within contemporary Islamic thought. It demonstrates the way that both slavery and abolition were historically challenged within the…
Jude M. Pfister
Since 1776, America's Founding mythology has attempted to portray the Founding generation as creating a new world where liberty and freedom were the inherent birthright of all peoples. We now…
Scott Spillman
An incisive and illuminating history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life
Jason Douglas Porter
A study of classical Athenian strategies and the different forms of slavery they fashioned.
Caroline Fowler
Caroline Fowler examines the fundamental role of the transatlantic slave trade in the production and evolution of seventeenth-century Dutch art.
This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery.
It illustrates how different disciplinary positions, methodologies and perspectives form and clash together through a…
Ali Anooshahr
This is a micro-historical study and biography of a sixteenth-century slave in India named Jawhar Aftabachi (d. after 1587) who served as the water-carrier for the Mughal Emperor Humayun (d…
Rudi Batzell
An original analysis of the relationship between slavery and the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
During the rise of the labor movement in the late nineteenth…
Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson
The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place.
In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson 'follow the…
Judy Fudge
Modern slavery laws are a response to global capitalism, which undermines the distinction between free and unfree labour and poses intense challenges to state sovereignty. Instead of being a solution…
An essential resource for understanding slavery in the New Testament and early Christianity Slavery permeated society in the ancient world. Slavery and its shadows pervade the New Testament and other…
This edited volume examines contemporary forms of slavery and the law through a comparative and historical lens, integrating findings from 15 countries to highlight continuities and shifts from the Atlantic…
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Dr. Stephanie Hassell
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enslaved Africans and Asians were crucial to expanding the Portuguese Catholic empire. The Crown and Church mandated their conversion, expanding the Christian population and…
Marcus Rediker
A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad's long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship
As many as 100,000…
Anthony C. Infanti
How the thirteen colonies deployed the power of taxation to support, promote, and perpetuate the institution of slavery
The Human Toll documents how the American colonies used tax law to…
Cheryl Thompson
Canada and the Blackface Atlantic traces the origins of theatre, dance, and concert singing in Canada and their connection to British and American song and dance traditions. When theatrical acts…
William Yoo
Reckoning with History is a hard, haunting, and hopeful history that will leave an indelible mark and transform your understanding of both Christianity and the United States.
Ellie Bird
This book explores how Canadians and Canadian readers have fashioned their self-image as an antislavery haven, showing a more complicated picture of Canada as a slaveholding, exploitative and racist place.
Erin Woodruff Stone
One of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean
Captives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous…
Saidiya Hartman
The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments now revised and updated
Jeff Forret
A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America-ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves
"A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret…
Leah Schanke
The true story of one man's brave plan to free his family from slavery
Nicole Saffold Maskiell
During the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires. In Bound by Bondage, Nicole Saffold Maskiell argues that slavery…
Richard Kreitner
A dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery--and fought the Civil War.
Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the…
Lindsay O'Neill
A fascinating account of two eighteenth-century princes from East Africa, their travels, and their encounters with the British Empire and slavery
In 1716 two princes from Mpfumo-what is today Maputo…
Andrea C. Mosterman
In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane.
Investigating practices of enslavement in New Netherland and then…
Herb Frazier, Joseph McGill
The personal account of one man's groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in the countless oft-overlooked former slave dwellings that still stand across the country, the fascinating history behind those sites…
Chris L. de Wet
Preaching Bondage introduces and investigates the novel concept of doulology, the discourse of slavery, in the homilies of John Chrysostom, the late fourth-century priest and bishop. Chris L. de Wet…
Earl Swift
"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in…
Matthew Stewart
"[A] bracingly original book." -Harold Holzer,?Wall Street Journal
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in…
Andrea Major
This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in…
James H. Sweet
The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their…
Paul Lashmar
The story of the British Empire and slavery told through one family of the landed gentry, the Draxes of Dorset and Barbados
Michael L. Blakey
In the first volume of three, Anthropology and Slavery at the Dawn of White Supremacy, Michael Blakey discusses both the background and function of anthropological racism as he questions whether…
Thomas J Ebert, Allen Carden
A companion volume to Abraham Lincoln and His Times, this book is a documentary sourcebook intended to provide a roadmap to the antebellum era. The primary documents assembled herein describe…
