Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution?the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffer
Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions, and settlements that made the plantation So
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institutionthe nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffere
From Cornell University Professors Louis Hyman and Edward E. Baptist, a collection of the most relevant readings on the history of capitalism in America, created to accompany their EdX courseAmerican
These essays, by some of the most prominent young historians writing about slavery, fill gaps in our understanding of such subjects as enslaved women, the Atlantic and internal slave trades, the rela
