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.

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.
Christopher Leslie Brown : History
Marcus Rediker's breathtaking "human history" of the slave ship reveals how the transatlantic slave trade demeaned everyone it touched.
The Radical and the Republican traces the antislavery politics of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington : Fiction
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.
Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.
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.
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.
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."
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.
James M. McPherson : Non-Fiction
What Michael Lind believes Abraham Lincoln believed.
For abolitionist John Brown, equality was not a theoretical stance but a daily practice.
Frederick Douglass delivered one of the nineteenth century's greatest orations on July 4, 1852.
Paul Wachter : African-Americans
The battle over the meaning of the Civil War continues to dominate Southern politics.
