This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second
Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners? Through the powerful stories of five en
Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the
A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the h
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbe