Slavery on the Periphery focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlem

On Slavery’s Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterpr

"An exceptional work that will stand for years as the best study of the African colonization movement. Burin's insights into this often misunderstood idea will

City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia a

This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international co