A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery “The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way

In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 179

Examines the ante bellum racial discrimination in the states north of the Mason-Dixon line.

This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas

Slavery in the United States is once again a topic of contention as politicians and interest groups argue about and explore the possibility of reparations. The