A personal face is given to the remarkable true tale of Sengbe Pieh, the African man captured by slavers who led the Amistad slave rebellion at sea. The struggle is explored from the main character&#
Ryan P. Jordan explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery. In the years before the Civil Wa
Walker believed American preachers committed a form of malpractice. They may preach well, he noted, but they avoided the core issue of America at the time, which was slavery. A fervent abolitionist an
A classic piece of Old Left scholarship made available to a new generation of students and activistsBernard Mandel's classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abo
Here is the true story of how British statesman and reformer William Wilberforce overcame great obstacles to bring about the end of the slave trade in England two centuries ago. The movie Amazing Gra
Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human right
The emergence of a sophisticated antislavery ideology and the rise of organized opposition to slavery in the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represented nothing less than on
"Details the life of Reverend John Todd and presents the story of the Underground Railroad station in Tabor. Todd provided spiritual guidance for the residents who joined the abolitionist movement. To
In September 2001, the Freed Slaves: Exclusion or Integration conference in Nottingham, England drew historians from North America, the Caribbean, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and even London. From that g
As the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largely ignored in the accounts of the colonie
From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history -- the fight to free the sl
In the 18th century, points out Marques (Instituo de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical) the trans-Atlantic slave trade was merely another instance of trafficking in people that had been going on and ac
Describes the history behind the Lincoln-Douglas debates during their run for the United States Senate, the debates themselves, and the outcome of the debates--which focused on the issue of slavery--a
Research on the slave trade and its abolition in the Indian Ocean world of Africa and Asia remains slight in comparison to examination of the Atlantic slave trade. In this work, Campbell (history, McG
In Spanish, Amistad means friendship. It was also the name of a slave ship. In 1838, the Amistad took hundreds of kidnapped Africans on a long journey across the Atlantic, but the brave captives would
In ?Negro President” the Pulitzer Prize?winning historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the now largely forgotten Timothy Pickering
This book - previously published as a special issue of the journal Slavery and Abolition - provides pioneering studies on the nature and structure of resistance to forms of bondage in Africa, Asia and
