David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the

This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity

The Problem of Emancipation explores a long-neglected aspect of American slavery and the history of the Atlantic World, bridging a gap in our understanding of t

Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it to

The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself