President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as
history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and …

President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as
history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and …

The Age of Revolution (1776-1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but
a'Second Slavery'surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for …

An award-winning historian illuminates the strategy for ending slavery that precipitated the
crisis of civil war. Surrounded by a ring of fire, the scorpion stings itself to death. The image …

This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique
to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American …

Challenging the boundaries of slavery ultimately brought on the Civil War and the
unexpected, immediate emancipation of slaves long before it could have been achieved in …

Slavery, an enduring stain on the fabric of the United States, predates the nation's inception,
persisting for approximately two and a half centuries as a sanctioned peculiar institution …

A book all Americans should read, Slave Nation reveals the key role racism played in the
American Revolutionary War, so we can see our past more clearly and build a better future …

Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the
nation existed eighty-eight years as a house divided against itself, as Abraham Lincoln put …

Out of slavery—and the antiblack racism it required—grew nearly everything that has truly
made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, its …