Slavery
Shackles, auction blocks, and the long road to freedom form the backdrop of these powerful works, which trace the brutal realities and quiet resistances of enslaved people across history. From intimate personal journeys to sweeping generational sagas, these books reckon honestly with one of humanity's darkest institutions and its enduring legacy.
Slavery Shrnutí knih
The Moor's Account
A Moroccan slave on a doomed Spanish expedition to Florida survives to write the erased history.
Historická fikce
Historické
Literární fikce
Slavery
Colonialism
Imerzivní
The Moor's Account
A Moroccan slave on a doomed Spanish expedition to Florida survives to write the erased history.
Historická fikce
Historické
Literární fikce
Slavery
Colonialism
Homegoing
Two half-sisters: a governor's bride above, a captive below. Their lines diverge for centuries.
Historická fikce
Afrika
Literární fikce
Historické
Afroamerické
Homegoing
Two half-sisters: a governor's bride above, a captive below. Their lines diverge for centuries.
Historická fikce
Afrika
Literární fikce
Historické
Afroamerické
Dead Wake
Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.
Historie
Racism
Afroamerické
Sociální spravedlnost
Politika
Dead Wake
Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.
Historie
Racism
Afroamerické
Sociální spravedlnost
Politika
The Grift
From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.
Historie
Politika
Rasa
Afroamerické
Sociální spravedlnost
The Grift
From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.
Historie
Politika
Rasa
Afroamerické
Sociální spravedlnost
March
The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.
Historická fikce
Literární fikce
Občanská válka
Historické
Válka
March
The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.
Historická fikce
Literární fikce
Občanská válka
Historické
Válka
Four Hundred Souls
Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.
Historie
Rasa
Afroamerické
Slavery
Sociální spravedlnost
Four Hundred Souls
Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.
Historie
Rasa
Afroamerické
Slavery
Sociální spravedlnost
Benito Cereno
An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.
Klasika
Povídky
Americké
Literatura
19. století
Benito Cereno
An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.
Klasika
Povídky
Americké
Literatura
19. století
Amity
To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.
Historická fikce
Literární fikce
Afroamerické
Historické
Občanská válka
Amity
To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.
Historická fikce
Literární fikce
Afroamerické
Historické
Občanská válka
Master Slave Husband Wife
Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.
Historie
Biografie
Rasa
Slavery
Afroamerické
Master Slave Husband Wife
Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.
Historie
Biografie
Rasa
Slavery
Afroamerické
The Christian Imagination
The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.
Historie
Náboženství
Křesťanství
Rasa
Colonialism
The Christian Imagination
The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.
Historie
Náboženství
Křesťanství
Rasa
Colonialism
Wench
An enslaved woman at a free-state resort must choose: her friend's freedom or her children's safety.
Historická fikce
Afroamerické
Literární fikce
Beletrie pro dospělé
Historické
Wench
An enslaved woman at a free-state resort must choose: her friend's freedom or her children's safety.
Historická fikce
Afroamerické
Literární fikce
Beletrie pro dospělé
Historické
Vyprávění o životě Fredericka Douglasse, amerického otroka
A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.
Historie
Klasika
Biografie
Memoáry
Autobiografie
Vyprávění o životě Fredericka Douglasse, amerického otroka
A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.
Historie
Klasika
Biografie
Memoáry
Autobiografie
From Here to Equality
A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.
Historie
Politika
Rasa
Sociální spravedlnost
Ekonomie
From Here to Equality
A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.
Historie
Politika
Rasa
Sociální spravedlnost
Ekonomie
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.
Historie
Biografie
Politika
Referenční
Válka
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.
Historie
Biografie
Politika
Referenční
Válka
The Pioneers
Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.
Historie
Americké
Biografie
Spojené státy
Válka
The Pioneers
Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.
Historie
Americké
Biografie
Spojené státy
Válka
Slavery by Another Name
The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.
Historie
Rasa
Afroamerické
Slavery
Politika
Slavery by Another Name
The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.
Historie
Rasa
Afroamerické
Slavery
Politika
A House for Miss Pauline
At ninety-nine, a Jamaican woman hears her stone house groan. The ruin wants its secret back.
Historická fikce
Literární fikce
Knižní klub
Caribbean
Magický realismus
A House for Miss Pauline
At ninety-nine, a Jamaican woman hears her stone house groan. The ruin wants its secret back.
Historická fikce
Literární fikce
Knižní klub
Caribbean
Magický realismus
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.
Historie
Ekonomie
Slavery
Capitalism
Rasa
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.
Historie
Ekonomie
Slavery
Capitalism
Rasa
The Great Contradiction
To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.
Historie
Americké
Politika
Slavery
Rasa
The Great Contradiction
To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.
Historie
Americké
Politika
Slavery
Rasa
Unworthy Republic
Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.
Historie
Indiánské
Domorodé
19. století
Americké
Unworthy Republic
Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.
Historie
Indiánské
Domorodé
19. století
Americké
Tower of Blood and Flame
Enslaved on a blood-soaked isle, a warrior queen sparks a slave revolt before she is sacrificed.
Fantasy
High fantasy
Temná fantasy
Dobrodružství
Magie
Tower of Blood and Flame
Enslaved on a blood-soaked isle, a warrior queen sparks a slave revolt before she is sacrificed.
Fantasy
High fantasy
Temná fantasy
Dobrodružství
Magie
American Slavery, American Freedom
American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.
Historie
Slavery
Rasa
Politika
Colonialism
American Slavery, American Freedom
American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.
Historie
Slavery
Rasa
Politika
Colonialism
King Leopold's Ghost
Private kingdom, fake charity, ten million dead: the Congo holocaust that Europe chose to forget.
Historie
Afrika
Biografie
Politika
Krimi
King Leopold's Ghost
Private kingdom, fake charity, ten million dead: the Congo holocaust that Europe chose to forget.
Historie
Afrika
Biografie
Politika
Krimi
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Columbus did not discover a new world. He launched a slave trade that built capitalism.
Historie
Afrika
Rasa
Slavery
Colonialism
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Columbus did not discover a new world. He launched a slave trade that built capitalism.
Historie
Afrika
Rasa
Slavery
Colonialism
Spartacus
Betrayed into slavery, a Thracian gladiator raises an army and challenges Rome for freedom.
Historická fikce
Historické
Válka
Military
Dobrodružství
Spartacus
Betrayed into slavery, a Thracian gladiator raises an army and challenges Rome for freedom.
Historická fikce
Historické
Válka
Military
Dobrodružství
A Protest History of the United States
From Indigenous resistance to Black Lives Matter, American progress came when protest demanded it.
Historie
Politika
Sociální spravedlnost
Aktivismus
America
A Protest History of the United States
From Indigenous resistance to Black Lives Matter, American progress came when protest demanded it.
Historie
Politika
Sociální spravedlnost
Aktivismus
America
Sweetness and Power
Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.
Historie
Antropologie
Jídlo
Ekonomie
Sociologie
Sweetness and Power
Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.
Historie
Antropologie
Jídlo
Ekonomie
Sociologie
Stamped from the Beginning
Racist policies came first. Racist ideas were invented after, to make discrimination look natural.
Historie
Rasa
Sociální spravedlnost
Politika
Afroamerické
Stamped from the Beginning
Racist policies came first. Racist ideas were invented after, to make discrimination look natural.
Historie
Rasa
Sociální spravedlnost
Politika
Afroamerické
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Behind the immigrant myth: a settler state founded on land theft, genocide, and a war economy.
Historie
Politika
Rasa
Sociální spravedlnost
Domorodé
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Behind the immigrant myth: a settler state founded on land theft, genocide, and a war economy.
Historie
Politika
Rasa
Sociální spravedlnost
Domorodé
Cape Cod and the Civil War
A peninsula voted its morals over its money, then became the Union's lifeline at sea.
Historie
Americké
Válka
19. století
Military
Cape Cod and the Civil War
A peninsula voted its morals over its money, then became the Union's lifeline at sea.
Historie
Americké
Válka
19. století
Military
A Nation Without Borders
The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.
Historie
Americké
Občanská válka
19. století
Slavery
A Nation Without Borders
The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.
Historie
Americké
Občanská válka
19. století
Slavery
White Supremacy
Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.
Historie
Afrika
Rasa
Politika
Sociologie
White Supremacy
Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.
Historie
Afrika
Rasa
Politika
Sociologie
The Common Cause
Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.
Historie
Politika
Rasa
Americké
Colonialism
The Common Cause
Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.
Historie
Politika
Rasa
Americké
Colonialism
A Nation Under Our Feet
Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.
Historie
Afroamerické
Rasa
Politika
Občanská válka
A Nation Under Our Feet
Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.
Historie
Afroamerické
Rasa
Politika
Občanská válka
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
Historie
Rasa
Politika
Ekonomie
Slavery
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
Historie
Rasa
Politika
Ekonomie
Slavery
Making Race and Nation
To unify warring whites, America and South Africa traded black rights. Brazil chose a quieter cage.
Historie
Politika
Sociologie
Racism
Slavery
Making Race and Nation
To unify warring whites, America and South Africa traded black rights. Brazil chose a quieter cage.
Historie
Politika
Sociologie
Racism
Slavery
The Republic of Violence
The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.
Historie
Slavery
Americké
19. století
Rasa
The Republic of Violence
The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.
Historie
Slavery
Americké
19. století
Rasa
American Taxation, American Slavery
The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.
Historie
Ekonomie
Spojené státy
Politika
Slavery
American Taxation, American Slavery
The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.
Historie
Ekonomie
Spojené státy
Politika
Slavery
The Interbellum Constitution
Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.
Historie
Právo
Politika
19. století
Slavery
The Interbellum Constitution
Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.
Historie
Právo
Politika
19. století
Slavery
Our First Civil War
Before fighting Britain, Americans fought each other. The Revolution as a civil war among neighbors.
Historie
Americké
Válka
Politika
Military
Our First Civil War
Before fighting Britain, Americans fought each other. The Revolution as a civil war among neighbors.
Historie
Americké
Válka
Politika
Military
Preserving the White Man's Republic
How Jacksonian Democrats fused liberty and exclusion into a conservatism that still shapes America.
Historie
Politika
19. století
Americké
Spojené státy
Preserving the White Man's Republic
How Jacksonian Democrats fused liberty and exclusion into a conservatism that still shapes America.
Historie
Politika
19. století
Americké
Spojené státy
Blonde Roots
When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.
Historická fikce
Literární fikce
Fantasy
Spekulativní fikce
Rasa
Blonde Roots
When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.
Historická fikce
Literární fikce
Fantasy
Spekulativní fikce
Rasa
