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.
Artist, Activist, and Author in the African Diaspora
Edited by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel and Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512828399
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
The first scholarly collection devoted to Shirley Graham Du Bois, this volume examines how African and African American culture infused her artistry as a musician, dramatist, editor, and author and analyzes how her creative intellect shaped the evolution of her radical political commitments across the global Black freedom struggle.
Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851
Marcy J. Dinius
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512828801
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Marcy J. Dinius offers the first in-depth analysis of Walker's argumentatively and typographically radical pamphlet and its direct influence on five Black and Indigenous activist authors, Maria W. Stewart, William Apess, William Paul Quinn, Henry Highland Garnet, and Paola Brown.
Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America
Nicholas P. Wood
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828320
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Let the Oppressed Go Free recovers the sophistication and influence of antislavery theology and abolitionist activism in eighteenth-century America. Far from inevitable, the abolition of slavery in the North resulted from tenacious activism by Quakers, African Americans, and antislavery evangelicals during the American Revolution.
Chicago, Ethiopianism, and the Black Apocalyptic Imagination
Kai Parker
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512827521
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
City of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago created a transnational religious movement, known as Ethiopianism, that connected the Black struggle for freedom in the United States to the global Black fight against Western imperialism.
In his narrative history of black Republicans in the twentieth century, Joshua Farrington reevaluates the relationship between black politicians, activists, and voters and the Republican Party, challenging the assumption that African Americans abandoned the "Party of Lincoln" after 1936.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) was a trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator and the first Black woman to edit a newspaper, the Provincial Freeman, in North America. Insensible of Boundaries is the first collection of essays dedicated to Shadd Cary’s cultural significance and intellectual contributions.
To outsiders, there are two Souths: the South of the cross and the gun in the region’s interior, and the tourist’s South of Creole food and fine linen on the region’s coasts. Captive City explores the Souths between, mapping the legacy of slavery in the cities on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.
