Slavery
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$5.95 Add to cartFrederick Douglass’s dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crim- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0451529944
- Language: English
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
$24.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history–the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors
- Author: Reséndez, Andrés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 18, 2017
- ISBN10: 054494710X
- Language: English
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Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science of Slave Psychology
$9.95 Add to cart“First printing: August 2003; second printing: April 2004”–Colophon.
- Author: Morrow, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0972035214
- Language: English
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
$19.95 Add to cartIn the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold
- Author: Degruy, Joy a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: September 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 0985217278
- Language: English
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Redeem a Nation: The Century-Long Battle to Restore the Soul of America
$31.00 Read moreWe all feel it, the teetering toward a place in America from which there is no return. The battle to remain hopeful in spite of injustice after injustice. In this powerful story of one lawyer’s fight … [more below]
- Author: Solomon-Simmons, Damario
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0593874587
- Language: English
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The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
$21.99 Add to cartNAMED A TOP BOOK OF 2024 BY AMAZON AND WASHINGTON POST
“Hannah Durkin lets the enslaved speak for themselves, and they tell a story not only of unimaginable suffering but also of courage and survival.”
- Author: Durkin, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063073005
- Language: English
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John Brown in New York: The Man, His Family, and the Adirondack Landscape
$32.95 Add to cartAn intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.
With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Weber, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855804645
- Language: English
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American Slavery, American Freedom
$21.99 Add to cartIn the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and equality. George Washington led Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in dec
- Author: Morgan, Edmund S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105208
- Language: English
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A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
$31.99 Read moreFrom a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template o
- Author: Ely, Melvin Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1250381118
- Language: English
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Slavery: The African American Psychic Trauma
$14.95 Add to cart- Author: Latif, Sultan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0964011808
- Language: English
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No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartFrom 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US part… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1781689997
- Language: English
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The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas
$32.50 Add to cartFor readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy–from El
- Author: Newman, Brooke N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063290979
- Language: English
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The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas
$35.00 Add to cartFor more than four centuries, enslaved people across the Americas, from the United States and the Caribbean to Brazil, fought any way they could to gain their freedom. For the first time, their dramat
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0802165494
- Language: English
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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
$29.95 Read moreA landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world.
The period from 1550 to- Author: Harpham, John Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0674278372
- Language: English
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Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
$33.00 Add to cartA revelatory history of enslaved people’s resistance and self-emancipation, across the Atlantic world and beyond.
The ending of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery by European powers during t- Author: Hazareesingh, Sudhir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0374611076
- Language: English
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
$20.00 Add to cart“Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account.” –Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post
“An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, ev- Author: Kaye, Anthony E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390567
- Language: English
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A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation’s Military Bases
$29.00 Add to cartThe inspiring story behind the ten Americans newly chosen to represent United States military bases previously named for Confederate soldiers, told by two members of the Naming Commission that selecte
- Author: Seidule, Ty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250330289
- Language: English
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The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies
$16.00 Add to cartThe Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
The Origins of American Slavery is a short analysis that shows the comp
- Series: Hill and Wang Critical Issues
- Author: Wood, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 04 1998
- ISBN10: 0809016087
- Language: English
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The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy
$29.95 Read more‘Extraordinary … The New Racial Regime works from an archival foundation of Black and Indigenous, liberationist and anti-colonialist thinkers, honing analytical tools that make sense of the ongoing
- Author: Lentin, Alana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745347967
- Language: English
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The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
$31.00 Add to cartA major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx, and featured in… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593801415
- Language: English
