A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the h

Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws a

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbe

Identity in the Shadow of Slavery addresses the issues relating to the gender, ethnic, and cultural factors affecting the ways in which enslaved Africans and th

Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners? Through the powerful stories of five en