that the books centered too heavily on slavery at the sugar plantation and not enough on the white Hogg family. "I attach a list of the books available with the publisher's description of each ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in ...

click image for close-up According to Celia Davis, a slave on Pierce Butler's Hampton plantation, Fanny Kemble was a "nice white lady, very rosy, [with] clothes always got on so rich." Still a ...

Cotton cultivation was pushing west, into the new southern territories, and plantation owners were desperate for slaves to work the crops. This selection is taken from a book entitled My Life in ...

The story is well told in “American Uprising,” a book by Daniel Rasmussen ... past the third or fourth year of laboring as slaves. The plantation work was grueling and the hours were long.

A woman managed to get several books about slavery removed from the historical Varner-Hogg Plantation after complaining they ...

In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation ...