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The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. …
Survival, Revival and Moral Revolution: the Life and Times of Alexander Stewart
Captured by Napoleon’s forces off the coast at Brighton in the year of Trafalgar, the fourteen year old Scot, Alexander Stewart, survived ten years in often appalling conditions in …
The American Civil War
The war in North America between 1861 and 1865 cost around three quarters of a million lives. Few societies in world history have lost a higher percentage of their military-aged …
It Took Courage: Eliza Winston's Quest for Freedom
In 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through legal appeal. Her story adds powerful testimony to African American …
The Words and Wares of David Drake
David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws prohibiting enslaved people from …
Hierarchies at Home
Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution. Domestic service – childcare, cleaning, chauffeuring …
Island Refuge
A sweeping and intimately told history of exiles and refugees. How have those who arrived on Britain�s shores shaped its history?