African American History and Slavery

Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents takes readers on an insightful journey through the life experiences of African Americans over the centuries, capturing African American experiences, challenges, accomplishments, and daily lives, often in their own words.

This is the first scholarly book to delve into the history behind Juneteenth. Using decades of research in archives around the nation, this book helps separate myth from reality and tells the story behind the celebration in a way that provides new understanding and appreciation for the event.

African American history illuminates the United States' core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being.

In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally.

Illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Provides information on the business and regulation of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and slavery and freedom in the North.

Users looking for authoritative and comprehensive information about black history, figures and accomplishments now have a defining and current reference to address their needs.

The African American Years focuses specifically on the history of African Americans from pre-colonial times to the present.

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.

A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present.

The author concentrates most of her attention on indigenous Africans and blacks in the United States
but also includes information about descendants of the African motherland who were involuntary and voluntary immigrants to the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

The 5-volume set contains biographical data on a roster of historical and contemporary personalities in the African American community. Historical narratives, statistical tables and graphs present in great detail nearly 500 years of history.

Provides hundreds of firsthand accounts (diary entries, letters, speeches and newspaper accounts) that illustrate how historical events appeared to those who lived through them.

The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day.