The Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on Blacks' sense of self. Alex Bontemps focuses on slavery's ...

In Exodus and Emancipation: Biblical and African-American Slavery, Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Chelst presents a new perspective on the saga of the Jewish people's enslavement and ...

American slavery; what a perplexing, disturbing, yet fascinating period in American history. Few topics bring about as much emotion today, stirring racial, geographical ...

Examines the impact of Reconstruction on the everyday lives of white Southerners, American Indians, Union soldiers, and former slaves.

While slavery was peculiar within a democratic republic, it was an integral and seldom questioned part of the 18th-century British empire. Examining the complex culture of the ...

"[Fogel's] exceedingly careful testing of all possible sources and his pioneering methodological approach have allowed [him] both to increase our knowledge of an institutions ...

A new volume in a series dedicated to a study of the Black experience includes a collection of essays by distinguished scholars and intellectuals on slavery in the Americas ...

In this classic short introduction to one of the most important and controversial topics in American history, Peter J Parish investigates slavery from political, economic and ...