Tracing Slavery's Past
Te-Ping Chen : Film
On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.
Slavery in America
2008
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Little Ships of Horror
Christopher Leslie Brown : History
Marcus Rediker's breathtaking "human history" of the slave ship reveals how the transatlantic slave trade demeaned everyone it touched.
2007
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The President and the Prophet
The Radical and the Republican traces the antislavery politics of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
2006
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Uncle Tom's Shadow
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington : Fiction
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.
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The New World Order
Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.
2005
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The True Story of Equiano
Robin Blackburn : African-Americans
Vincent Carretta's Equiano, the African is the complex narrative of a Carolina slave who bought his freedom, married an English woman and published a memoir on his life as a seafarer and gentleman.
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The Power of Fear
Jill Lepore's New York Burning paints a realistic portrait of a purported slave rebellion in 1741 and the hysteria that followed, a harrowing lesson of how abusers of power become haunted by the nightmare of retribution.
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The Hidden History of Slavery in New York
Those who believe that slavery in America was strictly a "Southern thing" will discover an eye-opening historical record on display at the New-York Historical Society's current exhibition, "Slavery in New York."
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Another Country
Chronicling the final, devastating months of the Civil War, E.L. Doctorow's new novel, The March, reveals the author's complex love for an earlier version of America.
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Twist and Shout
James M. McPherson : Non-Fiction
What Michael Lind believes Abraham Lincoln believed.
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The Avenging Angel
For abolitionist John Brown, equality was not a theoretical stance but a daily practice.
2004
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True Patriotism
Frederick Douglass delivered one of the nineteenth century's greatest orations on July 4, 1852.
2003
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Letter From South Carolina
Paul Wachter : African-Americans
The battle over the meaning of the Civil War continues to dominate Southern politics.
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