A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day. In this panoramic hist

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fort

The life, hardships, struggles, punishments, pleasures and revolts of slaves from ancient times.

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defec

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