Social Science - Slavery

Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history--the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryA National Book Award FinalistA...

The nineteenth-century Kentucky antislavery reformer Cassius Marcellus Clay is generally remembered as a knife-wielding rabble-rouser who both inspired and enraged his contemporaries. Clay brawled with opponents while stumping for state constitutional changes to curtail the slave trade. He famously deployed cannons to protect the...

Originally published in 1991, Celia, a Slave illuminates the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society by telling the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her enslaver and ultimately executed for his murder. Melton A. McLaurin...

An Amazon Best History Title of the Month A revelatory history of enslaved people's resistance and self-emancipation, across the Atlantic world and beyond. In the 1720s, the West African chief Tomba was abducted for organizing the local resistance against slave raiders and imprisoned on...

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed,...

More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and...

A 2025 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner From an award-winning biblical scholar, the "monumental and eye-opening" story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations of Christianity in ways both subtle and...

From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on cotton, indigo, tobacco, coffee, and bananas -- brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners, effected a fundamental shift...

A sweeping narrative history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas in cramped, inhumane conditions. Many of them died on the...

Explore the modern-day impact of slavery and colonialism in this panoramic Black history for anti-racist readers of 1619 Project and Caste. The companion book to a groundbreaking exhibition on African American history and culture--with 150 powerful illustrations of people and objects. This powerful collection...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by HerselfBy Harriet Ann JacobsAuthor: Harriet Ann JacobsPublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 04/04/2012Pages: 230Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.48dISBN: 9781613822920Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.1Point Value: 14Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 179006 / Incidents in...

One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861,...

An intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favorite place, the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. This intertwining story...

In the preface to his biography of John Brown, W. E. B. Du Bois writes that the book "is at once a record of and a tribute to the man who of all Americans has perhaps come nearest to touching the real souls of...

"[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published 'last seen' advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage...a vital work of recovery." --Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife Drawing from...

Tenacious activism by Quakers, African Americans, and antislavery evangelicals made antislavery central to the American Revolution In Let the Oppressed Go Free, Nicholas P. Wood presents the opponents of slavery who sustained and expanded the antislavery movement during the American Revolution in the face...

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate...

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical...

This volume offers 21 narratives from more than 170 interviews conducted with former slaves in North Carolina.Author: Belinda HurmencePublisher: BlairPublished: 01/01/1984Pages: 103Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.40dISBN: 9780895870391About the AuthorBelinda Hurmence was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, and educated at...

Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America. Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most...