". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the

A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery “The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way

Documenting multiple aspects of slavery and its development in North America, this collection provides more than one hundred excerpts from personal accounts, so

Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in fa

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migr