In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to lite

Explores the long-neglected rural dimensions of northern slavery and emancipation in New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley. Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad t

Examines the history of slavery in Maryland and discusses the conditions of life of Maryland's slaves and free Blacks.