'Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology begins with this claim to challenge how Christian thinking of salvation, possibility, and identity are challenged when we rethink assumptions about race, gender, and divine significance through the lens of the Virgin Mary, and specifically, through a return to the Black Madonna.
*A Jacobin Best Book of 2025**A Spectator Best Book of 2025, as picked by Sam Leith*From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of Black Spartacus, a revelatory history of enslaved people's resistance to Atlantic slavery.
From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United Statesa journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America.
From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United Statesa journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America.
The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824-1900; 1826-1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history.
The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824-1900; 1826-1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history.
Solomon Northup was a free Black man - a husband, father, and musician living in upstate New York - when two men offered him a short-term job and drugged him instead.
In this provocative and thoughtful new book, Kenan van de Mieroop-Al Bahrani explores how capitalism, racism, debt, and inheritance operate through a politics of time, where history is never simply the past but actively shapes the present.
During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains.
"e;A fascinating collection of essays"e; by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online).
During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains.
"e;A fascinating collection of essays"e; by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online).
An exploration of the resilient lives and legacies of enslaved Africans in AfricaUnlike narratives focused on enslaved people in the Americas, Europe, or the Middle East, this edited collection highlights the lives of African slaves and their descendants who remained in Africa.
A ground-breaking and essential work of history - the first of its kind to closely examine the British Royal Family's connection with the transatlantic slave tradeThe Crown's Silence is the untold story of the British royal family's relationship to slavery from the reign of Elizabeth I to the present.
In 1805, naval officer Captain Philip Beaver (1766-1813) published his African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1792.
In 1805, naval officer Captain Philip Beaver (1766-1813) published his African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1792.
A pathbreaking new perspective on the ways ancient societies were shaped and transformed by slave tradingThe growing economies of ancient Greece and Rome created an ever-increasing demand for enslaved labor, which was supplied by states on the peripheries of their empires.
A pathbreaking new perspective on the ways ancient societies were shaped and transformed by slave tradingThe growing economies of ancient Greece and Rome created an ever-increasing demand for enslaved labor, which was supplied by states on the peripheries of their empires.
Hon yw’r astudiaeth gyntaf mewn unrhyw iaith sy’n archwilio ymatebion crefyddol y Cymry yn yr Unol Daleithiau i gaethwasiaeth yn ystod y cyfnod 1838–68, sef oes aur y wasg gyfnodol Gymraeg yno.
Hon yw’r astudiaeth gyntaf mewn unrhyw iaith sy’n archwilio ymatebion crefyddol y Cymry yn yr Unol Daleithiau i gaethwasiaeth yn ystod y cyfnod 1838–68, sef oes aur y wasg gyfnodol Gymraeg yno.
Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black protagonists.
Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black protagonists.
Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Masterand His Legacy of White Supremacy focuses on the white men who composed the antebellum southern planter class in the period of 1830-1861.
Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Masterand His Legacy of White Supremacy focuses on the white men who composed the antebellum southern planter class in the period of 1830-1861.
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "e;ghost tours,"e; frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South.
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "e;ghost tours,"e; frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South.
From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slaverys expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with Americas violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change.