The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson, first published in 1862, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great lib
A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad t
Under policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered control over portions of their slave populations to state autho
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Dou
Through correspondence with people involved in the slave trade and interviews with former slaves, Bancroft exposed the commercial aspects of the American slave