Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers offers a detailed history of the newspapers that Frederick Douglass edited during his lifetime and highlights how his periodicals were collective productions. Benjamin Fagan places Black organizing at the center of the story of Douglass’s newspapers, and his newspapers at the center of the story of Black organizing.
Slave Rebellions and the Making of the Modern Prison reveals how slave rebellions that were brutally crushed in their time shaped the ideas and practices of racial violence that were enacted into law. These liberatory struggles shaped how lawmakers established the legal traditions that created the modern prison.
Undoing Slavery excavates medical and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Facing many challenges to their goal of restoring embodied self-sovereignty to the enslaved, abolitionists learned that legal rights alone, while necessary, were not sufficient either to protect or heal the bodies of African-descended people from the consequences of slavery and racism.
Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom
Sarah L. H. Gronningsater
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829709
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
416 Pages
The Rising Generation chronicles the history of emancipation in the United States through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black northerners. It focuses on the efforts of the “children of gradual abolition,” who, as grown-ups, shaped national and state campaigns for legal equality and the end of slavery.
The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
Jane Berger
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829686
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
A New Working Class traces efforts by Black public-sector workers and their unions to fight for racial and economic justice in Baltimore. Federal policy shifts imperiled their efforts. Officials justified weakening the welfare state and strengthening the carceral state by criminalizing Black residents—including government workers.
Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence reveals how abolitionists harnessed the power of the written word to further their political aims, arguing that letter writing enabled a disparate and politically marginal assortment of people to take shape as a mass movement.
Liberty's Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment for the most egregious of offenders, quickly became a holding tank for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation's promise of liberty.
Broadening the chronological and geographic parameters of the civil rights movement, Up South explores the origins of civil rights liberalism, the failure of the liberal program of antidiscrimination legislation and interracial coalition-building to deliver on its promise of racial equality, and the subsequent rise of the Black Power movement.
Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics
Jessica Ann Levy
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828573
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Black Power, Inc. examines the transnational rise of Black empowerment politics from the 1960s through the early 2000s and from the United States to Africa, highlighting how various public and private actors reconciled American-style free enterprise with anti-apartheid politics at the local, national, and international level.
Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920
Dennis Patrick Halpin
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512828788
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Dennis Patrick Halpin argues that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A Brotherhood of Liberty traces the civil rights victories scored by black Baltimoreans that inspired activists throughout the nation and subsequent generations.
