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.
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.
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.
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the medieval Middle East.
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the medieval Middle East.
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history.
From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflictsIn these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y.
Jenkins sets about his task with infectious enthusiasm and draws out all the most important themes in America s 250-year history' The TimesIn the two hundred and fifty years since its foundation, the United States of America has grown to become the world s richest and most powerful union.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted.
'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins.
Bracing and essential, a radical reframing of British Romanticism through the lens of Black experience for fans of David Olusoga, Gretchen Gerzina, Saidiya Hartman and Emma Dabiri A masterpiece about how history is made, written with power and ferocity Boston GlobeWordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats the Romantic poets are titans of English literature, taught and celebrated around the world.
En 1782, en una ciudad de los Andes del Virreinato del Perú, un español pobre inicia un juicio contra un comerciante del lugar para obligarlo a venderle su esclava mulata.
The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval EuropeIn 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave.
'I suspect that in ten years' time, we'll look back at the study of slavery and try to remember what it was like before we'd heard of the Sandbach Tinne dynasty.
'A horrific tale of the slave trade, destined to become a classic' New York Times* PEN Literary Award Finalist 2026* New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025* Time s 100 Must Read Books of 2025* The New Yorker 12 Essential Non-Fiction Reads 2025From the author of New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Cobalt Red, discover the incredible true story and page-turning account of the 18th century slave ship that sparked the human rights campaign to end the slave trade.
Warum Krankheiten, Seuchen und Pandemien nicht alle gleich treffen ‒ eine Reise durch die Weltgeschichte AIDS, Cholera, die Spanische Grippe – die Folgen von Epidemien werden auch durch menschliches Handeln bestimmt.
Manuel Jala: un afrocampechano, cuenta la inspiradora historia de un novohispano afrodescendiente, engarzado en la eterna pasión humana: la búsqueda de la libertad y la autodeterminación.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMost Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride *; Best New Books of Spring 2025 by Bustle *; Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by LitHub *; Biggest Books of March by Book Riot *; Most Anticipated Books of March by GoodreadsFeaturing two new songs written for the audiobook and performed by Bob the Drag Queen!
"e;Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver"e; is a biography of Captain Theodore Canot written and edited from his journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz Mayer.
History of American abolitionism; its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, insurrections of slaves, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, together with a history of the southern confederacy.
"e;Narrative of the Life and Adventures of an American Slave"e; is a self-published autobiography by an American abolitionist and former slave, Henry Walton Bibb.
"e;The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament "e; contains a unique contemporary account of the abolition movement in the Great Britain from one of its major leaders, Thomas Clarkson.
How a group of Black liberal thinkers challenged the race-based feudalism that reigned in the early American republicThough the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Old World.
