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 Rezumate de cărți
The Moor's Account
A Moroccan slave on a doomed Spanish expedition to Florida survives to write the erased history.
Ficțiune istorică
Istoric
Ficțiune literară
Slavery
Colonialism
Imersive
The Moor's Account
A Moroccan slave on a doomed Spanish expedition to Florida survives to write the erased history.
Ficțiune istorică
Istoric
Ficțiune literară
Slavery
Colonialism
Întoarcerea acasă
Two half-sisters: a governor's bride above, a captive below. Their lines diverge for centuries.
Ficțiune istorică
Africa
Ficțiune literară
Istoric
Afro-american
Întoarcerea acasă
Two half-sisters: a governor's bride above, a captive below. Their lines diverge for centuries.
Ficțiune istorică
Africa
Ficțiune literară
Istoric
Afro-american
Dead Wake
Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.
Istorie
Racism
Afro-american
Justiție socială
Politică
Dead Wake
Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.
Istorie
Racism
Afro-american
Justiție socială
Politică
The Grift
From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.
Istorie
Politică
Rasă
Afro-american
Justiție socială
The Grift
From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.
Istorie
Politică
Rasă
Afro-american
Justiție socială
March
The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.
Ficțiune istorică
Ficțiune literară
Război civil
Istoric
Război
March
The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.
Ficțiune istorică
Ficțiune literară
Război civil
Istoric
Război
Four Hundred Souls
Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.
Istorie
Rasă
Afro-american
Slavery
Justiție socială
Four Hundred Souls
Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.
Istorie
Rasă
Afro-american
Slavery
Justiție socială
Benito Cereno
An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.
Clasice
Povestiri scurte
American
Literatură
Secolul al XIX-lea
Benito Cereno
An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.
Clasice
Povestiri scurte
American
Literatură
Secolul al XIX-lea
Amity
To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.
Ficțiune istorică
Ficțiune literară
Afro-american
Istoric
Război civil
Amity
To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.
Ficțiune istorică
Ficțiune literară
Afro-american
Istoric
Război civil
Master Slave Husband Wife
Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.
Istorie
Biografie
Rasă
Slavery
Afro-american
Master Slave Husband Wife
Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.
Istorie
Biografie
Rasă
Slavery
Afro-american
The Christian Imagination
The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.
Istorie
Religie
Creștinism
Rasă
Colonialism
The Christian Imagination
The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.
Istorie
Religie
Creștinism
Rasă
Colonialism
Wench
An enslaved woman at a free-state resort must choose: her friend's freedom or her children's safety.
Ficțiune istorică
Afro-american
Ficțiune literară
Ficțiune pentru adulți
Istoric
Wench
An enslaved woman at a free-state resort must choose: her friend's freedom or her children's safety.
Ficțiune istorică
Afro-american
Ficțiune literară
Ficțiune pentru adulți
Istoric
Povestea vieții lui Frederick Douglass, un sclav american
A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.
Istorie
Clasice
Biografie
Memorii
Autobiografie
Povestea vieții lui Frederick Douglass, un sclav american
A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.
Istorie
Clasice
Biografie
Memorii
Autobiografie
From Here to Equality
A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.
Istorie
Politică
Rasă
Justiție socială
Economie
From Here to Equality
A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.
Istorie
Politică
Rasă
Justiție socială
Economie
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.
Istorie
Biografie
Politică
Referință
Război
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.
Istorie
Biografie
Politică
Referință
Război
The Pioneers
Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.
Istorie
American
Biografie
Statele Unite
Război
The Pioneers
Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.
Istorie
American
Biografie
Statele Unite
Război
Slavery by Another Name
The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.
Istorie
Rasă
Afro-american
Slavery
Politică
Slavery by Another Name
The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.
Istorie
Rasă
Afro-american
Slavery
Politică
A House for Miss Pauline
At ninety-nine, a Jamaican woman hears her stone house groan. The ruin wants its secret back.
Ficțiune istorică
Ficțiune literară
Club de lectură
Caribbean
Realism magic
A House for Miss Pauline
At ninety-nine, a Jamaican woman hears her stone house groan. The ruin wants its secret back.
Ficțiune istorică
Ficțiune literară
Club de lectură
Caribbean
Realism magic
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.
Istorie
Economie
Slavery
Capitalism
Rasă
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.
Istorie
Economie
Slavery
Capitalism
Rasă
The Great Contradiction
To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.
Istorie
American
Politică
Slavery
Rasă
The Great Contradiction
To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.
Istorie
American
Politică
Slavery
Rasă
Unworthy Republic
Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.
Istorie
Nativ american
Indigen
Secolul al XIX-lea
American
Unworthy Republic
Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.
Istorie
Nativ american
Indigen
Secolul al XIX-lea
American
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
Fantasy întunecat
Aventură
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
Fantasy întunecat
Aventură
Magie
American Slavery, American Freedom
American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.
Istorie
Slavery
Rasă
Politică
Colonialism
American Slavery, American Freedom
American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.
Istorie
Slavery
Rasă
Politică
Colonialism
King Leopold's Ghost
Private kingdom, fake charity, ten million dead: the Congo holocaust that Europe chose to forget.
Istorie
Africa
Biografie
Politică
Crime
King Leopold's Ghost
Private kingdom, fake charity, ten million dead: the Congo holocaust that Europe chose to forget.
Istorie
Africa
Biografie
Politică
Crime
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Columbus did not discover a new world. He launched a slave trade that built capitalism.
Istorie
Africa
Rasă
Slavery
Colonialism
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Columbus did not discover a new world. He launched a slave trade that built capitalism.
Istorie
Africa
Rasă
Slavery
Colonialism
A Protest History of the United States
From Indigenous resistance to Black Lives Matter, American progress came when protest demanded it.
Istorie
Politică
Justiție socială
Activism
America
A Protest History of the United States
From Indigenous resistance to Black Lives Matter, American progress came when protest demanded it.
Istorie
Politică
Justiție socială
Activism
America
Stamped from the Beginning
Racist policies came first. Racist ideas were invented after, to make discrimination look natural.
Istorie
Rasă
Justiție socială
Politică
Afro-american
Stamped from the Beginning
Racist policies came first. Racist ideas were invented after, to make discrimination look natural.
Istorie
Rasă
Justiție socială
Politică
Afro-american
Sweetness and Power
Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.
Istorie
Antropologie
Gastronomie
Economie
Sociologie
Sweetness and Power
Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.
Istorie
Antropologie
Gastronomie
Economie
Sociologie
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Behind the immigrant myth: a settler state founded on land theft, genocide, and a war economy.
Istorie
Politică
Rasă
Justiție socială
Indigen
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Behind the immigrant myth: a settler state founded on land theft, genocide, and a war economy.
Istorie
Politică
Rasă
Justiție socială
Indigen
Cape Cod and the Civil War
A peninsula voted its morals over its money, then became the Union's lifeline at sea.
Istorie
American
Război
Secolul al XIX-lea
Military
Cape Cod and the Civil War
A peninsula voted its morals over its money, then became the Union's lifeline at sea.
Istorie
American
Război
Secolul al XIX-lea
Military
White Supremacy
Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.
Istorie
Africa
Rasă
Politică
Sociologie
White Supremacy
Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.
Istorie
Africa
Rasă
Politică
Sociologie
A Nation Without Borders
The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.
Istorie
American
Război civil
Secolul al XIX-lea
Slavery
A Nation Without Borders
The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.
Istorie
American
Război civil
Secolul al XIX-lea
Slavery
The Common Cause
Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.
Istorie
Politică
Rasă
American
Colonialism
The Common Cause
Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.
Istorie
Politică
Rasă
American
Colonialism
A Nation Under Our Feet
Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.
Istorie
Afro-american
Rasă
Politică
Război civil
A Nation Under Our Feet
Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.
Istorie
Afro-american
Rasă
Politică
Război civil
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
Istorie
Rasă
Politică
Economie
Slavery
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
Istorie
Rasă
Politică
Economie
Slavery
Making Race and Nation
To unify warring whites, America and South Africa traded black rights. Brazil chose a quieter cage.
Istorie
Politică
Sociologie
Racism
Slavery
Making Race and Nation
To unify warring whites, America and South Africa traded black rights. Brazil chose a quieter cage.
Istorie
Politică
Sociologie
Racism
Slavery
American Taxation, American Slavery
The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.
Istorie
Economie
Statele Unite
Politică
Slavery
American Taxation, American Slavery
The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.
Istorie
Economie
Statele Unite
Politică
Slavery
The Republic of Violence
The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.
Istorie
Slavery
American
Secolul al XIX-lea
Rasă
The Republic of Violence
The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.
Istorie
Slavery
American
Secolul al XIX-lea
Rasă
The Interbellum Constitution
Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.
Istorie
Drept
Politică
Secolul al XIX-lea
Slavery
The Interbellum Constitution
Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.
Istorie
Drept
Politică
Secolul al XIX-lea
Slavery
Our First Civil War
Before fighting Britain, Americans fought each other. The Revolution as a civil war among neighbors.
Istorie
American
Război
Politică
Military
Our First Civil War
Before fighting Britain, Americans fought each other. The Revolution as a civil war among neighbors.
Istorie
American
Război
Politică
Military
Preserving the White Man's Republic
How Jacksonian Democrats fused liberty and exclusion into a conservatism that still shapes America.
Istorie
Politică
Secolul al XIX-lea
American
Statele Unite
Preserving the White Man's Republic
How Jacksonian Democrats fused liberty and exclusion into a conservatism that still shapes America.
Istorie
Politică
Secolul al XIX-lea
American
Statele Unite
Blonde Roots
When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.
Ficțiune istorică
Ficțiune literară
Fantasy
Ficțiune speculativă
Rasă
Blonde Roots
When Africans enslave Europeans, one woman receives a secret note offering escape at any cost.
Ficțiune istorică
Ficțiune literară
Fantasy
Ficțiune speculativă
Rasă
