Slaves worked. When, where, and especially how, they worked determined the course of their lives ...

This 1993 volume of Freedom presents a history of the emergence of free-labor relations in differ...

Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of the 200,000 black men who fought in the Civil War, in their...

Drawn from the documentary history of emancipation that has been described as 'this generation's ...

This 1991 volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relatio...

An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. In t...

So central was labour in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for gr...

Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of the 200,000 black men who fought in the Civil War, in their...

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Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slaver...

The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning...

Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery's demise in the United States. Emancipati...

Originally published: New York: Pantheon, 1975, c1974.

Published to accompany a major exhibit at the New-York Historical Society, this book demonstrates...

Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, 'Families and Freedom' tel...

Available for the first time in an inexpensive paperback edition--letters, personal testimonies, ...

In 1998, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startlin...

A master historian traces African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in th...