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Sexual Violence and American Slavery
It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: …
Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic
This title discusses about the partisan and political uses of slavery. Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention …
Capitalism and Slavery
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that …
Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Talks about sugar workers before and after emancipation. The contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted …
West of Slavery
When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through war, diplomacy, political …
A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery
The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as an extended autobiographical meditation on the meaning of race in antebellum America. First published in …
Domesticating Slavery
In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival …
The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery
In 1812, a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in …
Slavery on Trial
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and …
Slavery and Public History
How do Americans reckon with slavery? America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the …