Cross Cultural Solidarity

History; in the Service of Solidarity

Books About Slavery

Image: Successfully Escaping Slavery on Maryland’s Underground Railroad.

Deleso A. Alford & Daina Ramey Berry: Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia.

Ana Lucia Araujo: Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past.

Anne C. Bailey: The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History.

Anne C. Bailey: African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Edward E. Baptist: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.

Alice L Baumgartner: South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.

Sven Beckert: Empire of Cotton: A Global History.

Sven Beckert & Seth Rockman (editors): Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development.

Stephen Behrendt, A. J. H. Latham, & David Northrup: The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader.

Herman L. Bennett: African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic.

Ira Berlin:

Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, & Steven F. Miller (editors): Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation.

Daina Ramey Berry: 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 & Leslie M. Harris (editors): Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas.

Barry Bienstock, Peter Onuf, &Annette Gordon-Reed (editors): Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis.

Alfred Blumrosen: Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution.

Patricia Bradley: Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution.

Alfred L. Brophy, James T. Campbell, & Leslie M. Harris: Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies.

Vincent Brown:

Stephanie M. H. Camp: Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South.

Judith Carney & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff: In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World.

Emma Christopher: Freedom in White and Black: A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and Its Global Legacy.

Matthew J. Clavin: The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community.

Matthew J. Clavin: Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers.

Herbert C. Covey: African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and non-Herbal Treatments.

Herbert C. Covey & Dwight Eisnach: How the Slaves Saw the Civil War: Recollections of the War through the WPA Slave Narratives.

Herbert C. Covey & Dwight Eisnach: What the Slaves Ate: Recollections of African American Foods and Foodways from the Slave Narratives.

David Brion Davis:

Erica Armstrong Dunbar: Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.

David Eltis & David Richardson: Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Sharla M. Fett:

Jeff Forret:

Jeff Forret & Christine E. Sears: New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison.

Marisa J. Fuentes: Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive.

Katharine Gerbner: Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World.

Annette Gordon-Reed:

Toby Green: A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution.

John Harris: The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage.

Leslie M. Harris: In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863.

Jean M. Hébrard & Rebecca J. Scott: Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation.

Aline Helg: Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas.

Woody Holton: Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia.

Gerald Horne: The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers: They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South.

Lisa A. Lindsay: Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa.

Edmund S. Morgan: American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia.

David Northrup: Africa’s Discovery of Europe.

Jesse Olsavsky: The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861.

Christian Pinnen: Complexion of Empire in Natchez: Race and Slavery in the Mississippi Borderlands.

Marcus Rediker: The Slave Ship: A Human History.

Joseph P. Reidy: Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery.

Leonard L. Richards: The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780—1860.

Marc Howard Ross: Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory.

Joshua D. Rothman: The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America.

Calvin Schermerhorn: The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860.

Calvin Schermerhorn: Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery.

Manisha Sinha: The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina.

Manisha Sinha: The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.

Gregory D. Smithers: Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History.

Randy J. Sparks: Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade.

Robert K. Sutton: Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era.

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

Amy Murrell Taylor: Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps.

John K. Thornton: A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820.

Andrew J. Torget: Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850.

Jonathan Daniel Wells: The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War.

Heather Andrea Williams: Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.

Heather Andrea Williams: Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery.

Tom Zoellner: Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire.