So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the ...

Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after ...

Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years ...

A vivid and moving history of the quarter of a million free blacks who lived in the South before the Civil War. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

This insightful book delves into the history of the Samnites, main rival of Rome, with regards to Republican Rome.

A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America ...

Nearly 10 years ago, The New Press published this book and tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery in the US. Using excerpts from the thousands of ...

Tackling the myth of a post-racial society Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism ...