Slavery and abolition of slavery

This volume, first published in 1971, has made us look again at the events surrounding the Civil War.

A comprehensive study of the role slavery and the Civil War played in dividing the Northern and Southern Episcopal bishops and the churches they ledWhile slavery and secession divided the Union during the American Civil War, they also severed the Northern and Southern dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

A sourcebook for understanding an uprising that continues to incite historical debateIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom.

A fresh biography of a neglected figure in Southern history who played a pivotal role in the Civil War.

In The Slaveholders' Dilemma, Eugene D.

This historical study examines how free people of color in Charleston and Cartagena challenged the foundations of racial hierarchies in the Americas.

A chronicle one of the harshest, most exploitative labor systems in American historyIn his seminal study of convict leasing in the post-Civil War South, Matthew J.

In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved and free Black population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion.

Thirteen treatises recall the history of slavery's defenders beginning in the colonial SouthIn Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829, Jeffrey Robert Young has assembled thirteen texts that reveal the development of proslavery perspectives across the colonial and early national South, from Maryland to Georgia.

Explores the South's paradoxical devotion to liberty and the practice of slaveryThe recipient of high praise-and considerable debate for its provocative thesis-William J.

Manumission-the act of freeing a slave while the institution of slavery continues-has received relatively little scholarly attention as compared to other aspects of slavery and emancipation.

The first biography to rescue the true story of Josiah Henson, restoring to history his role in the Underground RailroadJosiah Henson led a fascinating life-from the plantation fields of Maryland to the Georgetown Market to the plantations of Kentucky to escaping to freedom in Canada to being introduced to the Queen in England.

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade.

Frederick Douglass was born a slave, he escaped a brutal system and through sheer force of will educated himself and became an abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer.

Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.

Here is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York.

Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women.

Today Frederick Douglass is best known for his autobiographies; but while he was alive he was known as a fiery orator who was always in demand.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written.

In My Larger Education, Booker T.

Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent women whose rose up from slavery to greatness.

Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent men whose rose up from slavery to greatness.

Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.

At an international level, Anglicanism has almost no mandating or juridical power.

Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever written.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.

Collected here are both of Frederick Douglass' magazine articles: "e;My Escape from Slavery,"e; and "e;Reconstruction,"e; as well as his address "e;The Hypocrisy of American Slavery.

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography.

Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view.

Mary Prince was the first woman slave to write of her experience.

In Frederick Douglass' autobiography 'My Bondage and My Freedom' we can see the power of literacy and belief.

Truth spoke about abolition, women's rights, prison reform, and preached to the Legislature against capital punishment.

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.

The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831

Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, only five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, the work is an affirmation of the Protestant Reformation in England during the ongoing period of religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants.

In 1934, Anglican priest H.

This scholarly study examines the shifting perceptions of slavery in the antebellum South through news accounts of major slave rebellions.

A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "e;breeding women"e; essential to the expansion of the nation.

Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature.

An "e;excellent biography"e; of General Washington's aide-de-camp, a daring soldier who advocated freeing slaves who served in the Continental Army (Journal of Military History).

This scholarly study examines the shifting perceptions of slavery in the antebellum South through news accounts of major slave rebellions.

From trusted to tainted, an examination of the shifting perceived reputation of overseers of enslaved people during the eighteenth century.

Winner, 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis.

As African Americans in Arkansas emerged from slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, it was the job o the Federal Freedmen's Bureau to help them build bridges to freedom.