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"According to My Reckoning": Remembering and Commemorating Slavery and Emancipation
"And Tell Me Poet, Can Love Exist in Slavery?" Letters of the Unfree before Emancipation
A Biography of the Domestic Slave Trade
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
A White Historian Confronts American Slavery
Abraham Lincoln and the Meaning of American Citizenship
Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and Race
African American Slavery in the Native American South
African Americans and the Anglo-American Abolitionist Movement
African Americans and the Meaning of Freedom
African Americans, the British Working Class, and the Struggle for Freedom in the United States
American Slave Systems in Comparative Perspective
Antislavery and Abolitionism
B
"Buy for the Sake of the Slave": How Abstemious Abolitionists (and Southern Nationalists) Invented Modern Consumer Activism
Beasts of the Southern Wild: Tracking Non-Human Animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States (1836)
Black Liberation in the Era of the American Revolution
By Land and by Water: The Problem of Mobility in American Slavery
C
Community Resistance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
Consumer Boycotts as Abolitionist Strategy: Free, Family, and Requited Labor in the Antebellum United States
Cosmopolitan Captives: Globe-trotting Slaves in the Age of Secession
D
Did Nat Turner "Confess"?
E
Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (about the documentary film)
Partus Sequitur Ventrum: Slave Law and the Histories of Women in Slavery
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865
Emancipation and Reconstruction in the Native American South
Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom
Emancipation in the 1860s: Russia and the U. S. South
F
Facing Slavery's Legacy at Georgetown University
Female Slave Resistance in the Antebellum South
Film Screening and Discussion -- "Anna"
Finding the Origins of American Capitalism in the Archives of Southern Slavery
Flatbush Renaissance: Slavery and Education in Revolutionary New York
Force, Freedom, and the End of Slavery
Four Roads to Emancipation: Lincoln, the Law, and the Proclamation
Franklin and Armfield: An American Slave Trading Colossus
Freedom as Method: Slavery, Prisons, and the Modern Carceral State
From Border States to Border South: Slavery, Civil War, and the Politics of Identity in the Border Slave States
From Richmond to New Orleans and Everywhere In Between: Have You Noticed That There Is No National Slave Trade Trail?
From the Amistad to the Wildfire: Northern Black Activists Confront the Illegal Transatlantic Slave Trade
Fugitive Slaves in the Midwest
G
Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Gender and Slavery in the Caribbean
Gender and Slavery in the United States
Goat Bones in the Basement: A Tale of Race, Gender, and Haunting in Old Savannah
Grandmothering in Antebellum Slave Families and Communities
H
Harriet Jacobs’s 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl': Slave Narratives and the Antislavery Struggle
Historical Methodology, Ethics, and the Archives of Slavery
Historical Reflections on the Interracial Struggle to End Slavery
Histories of Slavery in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter
How Can I Possibly Teach About Harriet Tubman When I Have to Get to World War I by January 10: Integrating Class, Race, and Gender into the Social Studies Curriculum in the Age of High-Stakes Testing
How Slavery Really Ended in America: Three Black Virginians Who Crossed a River and Changed History
How the Electoral College Protected Slavery
How to Teach American Slavery
I
In Search of Confederate Slaves
Interracial Sex and Slave Women's Labor in the Old South
Is Freedom White?
J
John Brown, Harpers Ferry, and the Coming of the Civil War
John Locke and Slavery: A Reconsideration
K
Killing and Dying for the Confederacy
L
"Liberty to the Captive": Fugitive Slaves in Civil-War Washington, D.C.
Legacies of Slavery in West Africa
Liberty, Slavery, and the Coming of the Civil War
M
Mrs. Dred Scott
Museums and Heritage Tourism in the Black Atlantic World
N
Nat Turner on Film
Native American Slavery in Global Context
Never Caught: Ona Judge, the Washingtons, and the Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonialism in early America
Northern Slavery and Emancipation
Not (Quite) an Abolitionist: Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery
Not without My Daughter: The Postwar Underground World of Harriet and Louisa Jacobs
P
Paternalism after Its Triumph: The White Mission to the Slaves in Late Antebellum Charleston
Plantation Provisions and the National Economy of Slavery in Antebellum America
Protest in Black and White: African American Writers Confront Atlantic Slavery
R
Redemption Songs: Stories of Slaves Suing for Freedom
Reparations
Rethinking Emancipation
Revisiting the Critiques of Justices who Upheld the Fugitive Slave Acts
S
Secession, Slavery, and the Causes of the Civil War
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Enslaved Men
Slave Emancipation and Human Rights
Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of the New American State
Slave Labor and Cotton Production in Antebellum Mississippi
Slave Resistance and the Making of American Abolition
Slaveholding Mistresses and Enslaved Women in the Plantation Household
Slavery and American Universities
Slavery and Early American Nationalism
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Slavery and Freedom in the North
Slavery and Suicide in North America
Slavery and the Common Law
Slavery and the Constitution
Slavery and the Declaration of Independence: The Deleted Clauses
Slavery and the Southern Economy: Myths and Realities
Slavery and the University in the Pre–Civil War South
Slavery and the Value of Human Chattels
Slavery in American History and Memory
Slavery in New York City
Slavery, Freedom, and the American Constitution
Slavery, Law, and the Constitution
Slaves Named and Un-named: Recovering the Lives of the Pinckneys' Enslaved Laborers in a Digital Edition
Slaves on Film: Popular Cinema and the Civil War Era
Social Death and Social Life in Recaptive African Forced Migrations
Sounds of Slavery
T
"The Best Place to Try the Experiment": Emancipation in Washington, D.C., April 1862
"Their Great Commoditie": Gender, Commodification, and the Origins of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Abolitionist International: Anatomy of a Radical Social Movement
The Abolitionist Origins of Radical Reconstruction
The Abolitionist Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
The Breakdown of Slavery in the Civil War South
The Cause of Her Grief: The Rape of a Slave in Early New England
The Confederate Debate Over Arming the Slaves
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Empire of Cotton: A Global History
The Essence of Liberty: Free African American Women Before Slavery Ended
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
The Impact of Antebellum Slave Migrations on Family and Community Life
The Language of Enslaved People as Culture, Humanity, and Resistance
The Legacy of Emancipation in Post-Civil-War Washington, DC
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
The Life Cycle of Slave Children in the Nineteenth-Century South
The Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
The Nat Turner Trials
The New History of American Slaveries
The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
The Other Emancipation of the 1860s: A Comparative Perspective on Freeing Russia's Serfs
The Other Slavery: Coerced Indian Labor in North America
The Political Significance of Slave Resistance
The Politics of Enslaved Women's Self-Liberation
The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation
The Real Story of the Underground Railroad
The Revolt against the Indies Company in Haiti, 1720–1725
The Roots of Quasi-Freedom: Slavery, Manumission, and the African American Community of Early National Baltimore
The Slave Female World of Sally Hemings
The Slave's Cause: A New History of Abolition
The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Disunion Rhetoric and the Coming of the Civil War
The Slavery Question in the Old South: Evolving White Attitudes, 1787-1840
The Slavery Question: How Ex-Confederates Thought about Their Peculiar Institution
The Stono Slave Uprising of 1739
The Story of Slavery through the Voices of the Formerly Enslaved
The Time of Slavery: History, Memory, Politics, and the Constitution
The Trail the Slaves Made: Captivity and Coerced Labor on the Santa Fe Trail in the U.S.-Mexico War Era
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Disposable Lives
The Underground Railroad and the Coming of the Civil War
The World of Books and the World of Slavery: A Jamaican Case Study
Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
Thomas Jefferson, Race, and Slavery
Threading the Loophole: Slavery as Punishment Before and After the Thirteenth Amendment
U
U.S. Slavery
Understanding the Underground Railroad: Why We Love Antebellum Law Breakers
Undoing Slavery: Abolition and the Argument over Humanity
Union and Slavery: How Union Veterans Remembered the Civil War
United States Slavery
Universities and Slavery: Georgetown's Past, Georgetown's Present
Universities Confront Their Histories of Slavery and Race
Urban Slavery
Urban Slavery in Savannah
W
Walt Whitman, Slavery, and Democracy
War, Politics, and Slavery
Was Emancipation a War Crime?
Was John Brown America's First Terrorist?
What Did the Slaves Think of Lincoln?
What the Fathers Founded: The Constitution, Slavery, and Resistance before the Civil War
With Only a Trace: Same-Sex Sexual Violence on Slave Plantations in the United States, 1607-1861
Writing Slavery into Freedom’s Story
Y
"You Just Had to Depend on Yourself": Self-Reliance and the Healing Work of Enslaved Women
York: The Slave on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
1
1619 vs. 1620: Slaves versus Pilgrims in the Struggle over America’s Founding
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