Search Results for: Slavery

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defec

Documenting multiple aspects of slavery and its development in North America, this collection provides more than one hundred excerpts from personal accounts, so

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the c

A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day. In this panoramic hist

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Dou