byDavid Eltis,David Richardson,James Basker,David Blight,David Davis
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12. 5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline...
“The ghosts of the Civil War never leave us, as David Blight knows perhaps better than anyone, and in this superb book he masterfully unites two distant but i...
Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful ar...
An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th centuryFirst published in 1797, The Columbian Ora...
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** &“Extraordinary…a great American biography&” (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the ni...
A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Resear...
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off ...
byFrederick Douglass,David Blight
This fiery autobiography, written as anti-slavery propaganda, tells of Douglass' struggle to gain freedom and became a 19th century national bestseller. [This...
byDavid Blight,Frederick Douglass
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson ...
byDavid Blight,Robert Stepto,Caleb Smith,Austin Reed
The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer--recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars--sheds light on the longstandin...
byGenevieve LeBaron,Jessica Pliley,David Blight
Over the last two decades, fighting modern slavery and human trafficking has become a cause célèbre. Yet large numbers of researchers, non-governmental organi...
byDavid Blight,Karolyn Frost,Veta Tucker
As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that ...
byRobert Harms,Bernard Freamon,David Blight
While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great...
byMary Norton,Carol Sheriff,David Blight,Howard Chudacoff,Fredrik Logevall,David Katzman
A People and a Nation offers a spirited narrative that challenges students to think about American history. The authors' attention to race and racial identity a...
byFredrik Logevall,Jane Kamensky,Carol Sheriff,David Blight,Howard Chudacoff
Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for yourself. A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a lively narrative, telling the stories of the diverse pe...