"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"--

Caroline Fowler examines the fundamental role of the transatlantic slave trade in the production and evolution of seventeenth-century Dutch art.

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…

This is the story of the African-American Montier family, which traces its roots to Philadelphia's first mayor, a white Quaker named Humphrey Morrey, and includes generations of Black activists, artists…

A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, colonialism, and the climate

"Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more than argument. It's how we build…

Slavery: What it was, what it has done, what it intends to do, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is…

The question of the impact of slavery has gained new importance in debates on the history of economic development, capitalism and inequality. This edited volume explores how Atlantic slaved-based economic…

Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and these debates provide insights into the roots of…