American Slavery and Abolitionism

Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland

The Liberator: Voice of the Abolitionist Movement (Words That Changed History Series)

Stephen Currie

Douglass: Autobiographies (Library of America College Editions)

Frederick Douglass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings

Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics)

Frederick Douglass and John David Smith

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself (Penguin Classics)

Frederick Douglass, Houston A. Baker, and William Lloyd Garrison

A Voice from Harper's Ferry

Osborne Anderson, Vince Copeland, Monica Moorehead, and Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848 (New Edition) (Verso World History Series)

Robin Blackburn

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (Penguin Classics)

Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Vincent Carretta

The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)

Peter Charles Hoffer

Slave Patrols : Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Harvard Historical Studies)

Sally E. Hadden

John Brown's War Against Slavery

Robert E. McGlone

Black Slaveowners

Larry Koger

From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

Jacqueline L. Tobin

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World

Greg Grandin

Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

Carol Faulkner

White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America

Don Jordan and Michael Walsh

Women's Slave Narratives

Annie L. Burton

Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack

Katherine C. Mooney

The Scorpions Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

James Oakes

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Eric Foner

The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812

Gene A. Smith

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

Alan Taylor

The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking

Joel Quirk

We are the Revolutionists: German-speaking Immigrants & American Abolitionists After 1848

Mischa Honeck

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions)

Frederick Douglass

Slave Ships and Slaving

George Francis Dow

Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives

Norman R. Yetman

When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Edition)

Norman R. Yetman

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Eric Foner (Author)

John Brown's Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook

Steven Lubet

Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution

Staughton Lynd

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

William and Ellen Craft

Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance

Cheryl Janifer Laroche (Author)

The Slave Trade

James Walvin

The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

Marcus Rediker

Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World (California World History Library)

Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker

The Abolitionist Imagination (The Alexis De Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)

Andrew Delbanco, Daniel Carpenter, John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha, Darryl Pinckney, and Wilfred M. McClay

Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North

C. S. Manegold

Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River

Matthew Salafia

Slavery and American Economic Development

Gavin Wright

The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform

William Caleb McDaniel

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Vintage)

Jill Lepore

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs (The John Harvard Library)

Harriet A. Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, and John S. Jacobs

Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader

Herbert Aptheker

Fugitive Slave on Trial: the Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage

Earl M. Maltz

Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery

Earl M. Maltz

War's Desolating Scourge: The Union's Occupation of North Alabama

Joseph Wesley Danielson

The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey

Edwin Fuller Torrey

Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope

Jonathan M. Bryant

Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery

Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg

Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics

Michael D. Pierson

The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives

Devon W. Carbado

The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferry

Truman Nelson and Mike Davis

Beyond Freedom's Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery

Adam Rothman

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

David Eltis

The Slave Ship: A Human History

Marcus Rediker

Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America

Sterling Stuckey

Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775–1865

T. Stephen Whitman (Author)

John Brown, Abolitionist

David S. Reynolds

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

James Oakes (Author)

Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier

Lea Vandervelde

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

Manisha Sinha

American to the Backbone: The Life of James W. C. Pennington, the Fugitive Slave Who Became One of the First Black Abolitionists

Christopher Webber

From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657-1761

Brycchan Carey

The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within U.S Slave Culture

Vincent Woodard

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

Eric Foner (Author)

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

Karl Jacoby

The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan

Gisli Palsson

New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

Wendy Warren

The Road to Disunion

William W. Freehling

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery

Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

David W. Blight

Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870

Dana Elizabeth Weiner

Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania

Cooper H. Wingert

Slave Escapes & the Underground Railroad in North Carolina

Steve M. Miller

On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870

David G. Smith

Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860

Watson W. Jennison

The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave in the Building of a Nation

Daina Ramey Berry (Author)

I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives (Library of Black America series, The)

Charles Johnson (Foreword) and Yuval Taylor (Editor)

American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt

Daniel Rasmussen (Author)

Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848

Dale W. Tomich

New Frontiers of Slavery

Dale W. Tomich (editor, contributor)

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

Ned Sublette

Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities

Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, and Barbara M. Hahn

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

Marcus Rediker

Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol

Nell Irvin Painter

Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey

Dannis Rizzo

The Combahee River Raid: Harriet Tubman & Lowcountry Liberation

Jeff W. Grigg

On Slavery and Abolitionism

Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward E. Baptist (Author)

Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

Betty DeRamus

Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad

Mary Kay Ricks

Slavery in New York

Ira Berlin and Leslie Harris

Capitalism, Slavery, and Republican Values: Antebellum Political Economists, 1819-1848

Allen Kaufman

The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925

Herbert George Gutman

The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History

Philip D. Curtin

American Slavery, American Freedom

Edmund Sears Morgan

The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South

Eugene D. Genovese

Harriet Tubman : The Moses of Her People (Dover Books on Americana)

Sarah Bradford

Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America

Christina Snyder

John Brown's Trial

Brian McGinty

The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)

Steven Hahn

Slavery and Social Death

Orlando Patterson (Author)

Slavery's Capitalism

Sven Beckert (Author)

Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics

Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

Stephanie M. H. Camp

The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

Andrew Delbanco

The Underground Railroad Records

William Still and Ta-Nehisi Coates

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave

William L. Andrews (editor)

West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire

Kevin Waite

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South

Barbara Krauthamer

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

Sylviane A. Diouf

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