For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted for the vast majority of slaves in the west. Jim Powell offers some surprising insights and shows that while the abolition of slavery was essential to...

William Brown was born in Lexington, Kentucky, son of George Higgins and Elizabeth. He later was moved to Missouri and later escaped to Canada.

"Winner of the 14th Annual (2012) Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University" "Co-winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association" "Co-Winner of the 2011 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor...

In antebellum times slaveholders perceived themselves as thoroughly modern and moral men who were protecting human progress against the perversions spawned by the more radical aspects of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The slaveholders insisted that, in resisting the religious heresies, infidelity, ultra-democratic politics, and egalitarian dogmas then sweeping the North and Western Europe, they were proving themselves the firmest carriers...

In this stand-alone novel, set in the world of "The Black Jewels Trilogy", a notorious queen purchases Jared, a Red Jewel Warlord, in an auction and makes him a pleasure slave. Jared fears he will share the fate of her other slaves, but Gray Lady may not be what she seems

This book examines the practice of enslavement, trafficking, sexual starvation and the abuse of workers in the Gulf Arab Region, making a compelling case for labor rights, freedom of the press, and a reform of the kafala-sponsorship system.

"Prior to the Civil War, thousands escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad. Untold others failed in the attempt. These unfortunate souls were dragged into bondage via the Reverse Underground Railroad, as it came to be called. With more lines on both roads than any other state, the Free State of Ohio became a hunting ground for slave catchers and kidnappers who roamed the North with impunity, seeking "fugitives" or any person of color who could...

“The Slave in Canada” by The Honorable William Renwick Riddell, JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF ONTARIO from The Journal of Negro History, Vol. V, No. 3, July, 1920, Carter G. Woodson, Editor. Note-This book is 'read as written'. It was published in 1920. It is in the public domain.

"Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg argues that significant numbers of enslaved Africans and their descendants across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her analysis of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence,...

"Mary Prince was the first black British woman to escape from slavery and publish a record of her experiences. In this unique document, Mary Prince vividly recalls her life as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island, Antigua, and England, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in London in 1828." "In this revised and expanded edition of The History of Mary Prince, Moira Ferguson has added new material based...