Artist, Activist, and Author in the African Diaspora
Edited by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel and Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512828399
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
The first scholarly collection devoted to Shirley Graham Du Bois and her legacy as an artist and activistShirley Graham Du Bois centers her cultural, intellectual, and political significance as a Black...
Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851
Marcy J. Dinius
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512828801
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Historians and literary historians alike recognize David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829-1830) as one of the most politically radical and consequential antislavery texts...
Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America
Nicholas P. Wood
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828320
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
400 Pages
Tenacious activism by Quakers, African Americans, and antislavery evangelicals made antislavery central to the American RevolutionIn Let the Oppressed Go Free, Nicholas P. Wood presents the opponents...
Chicago, Ethiopianism, and the Black Apocalyptic Imagination
Kai Parker
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512827521
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
How Black Protestants in Chicago created Ethiopianism, a transnational religious movement against Western imperialismCity of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the...
Black Republicans left an indelible mark on the history of their party, the civil rights movement, and twentieth-century political developmentReflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old...
The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd CaryMary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) was a trailblazing Black...
Explores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coastsCities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural”...
Reveals how, through auctions, early Americans learned capitalismAs the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked...
Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States
Julia Wallace Bernier
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512826470
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil WarEnslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom’s...
Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics
Mary Ellen Curtin
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825800
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
480 Pages
An important new biography of Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman from the South to serve in CongressDuring her keynote speech at the 1976 Democratic Party convention, Barbara Jordan of Texas stood...
