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A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine.Most stories of medical …
An exploration of the Haitian Revolution looks at the events and individuals involved in the largest successful slave revolt in history, which was responsible for creating the …
Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.”—Ari Kelman, Times Literary …
As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and …
Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years …
No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass’s Narrative. In an introductory …
Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough PrizeA prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, Black …
Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost …
This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. …
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people—an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn …