Overview :In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighti... Read More
Overview :The history of capitalist development in the United States is long, uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the North. Macroeconomic studies o... Read More
Overview :In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notion... Read More
Overview :A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America--ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveh... Read More
Overview :Covering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor ... Read More