Slavery and abolition of slavery Books

This book is a forceful argument against the gradual abolition of slavery and instead proposes immediate abolition. Heyrick highlights the moral imperative of ending slavery and provides practical suggestions for doing so. Her writing inspired many...

In this stirring work, Rankin implores his correspondent to free the slaves he holds, arguing that to do so is to honor God's will and to secure the righteousness of his own soul. His moving words will persuade all who read them that the end of slavery...

"It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who...

Widely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prizewinning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in slavery and freedom. These two classic volumes, now...

Revised 2022 version including additional testimony from Ruth Dearnley (CEO of STOP THE TRAFFIK)One Million to STOP THE TRAFFIK tells true stories of people who are trafficked. Sunni and Whinney, at just six and eight years old, were sold by their...

When it was first published fifteen years ago, this startling-and bestselling-first-person history of slavery was heralded as "powerful and intense" (Atlanta Journal Constitution) and "invaluable" (Chicago Tribune). Drawing from the thousands of...

From the Darkness Cometh the Light (1891) is a memoir by Lucy A. Delaney. Published in St. Louis in the last year of Delaney's life, the work is regarded as an essential slave narrative and the only firsthand account of a freedom suit, by which some...

The Collected Meditations of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart (2021) compiles the speeches and writings of Maria W. Stewart. This groundbreaking collection includes some of the best works from across Stewart's career as the first African American public lecturer,...