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

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Dou

In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 179

Examines the ante bellum racial discrimination in the states north of the Mason-Dixon line.

The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson, first published in 1862, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great lib