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Eastman Johnson: The Ride for Liberty, the Fugitive Slaves, circa 1862

How They Stopped Slavery: A New Perspective

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865

by James Oakes

June 6, 2013 issue

Hale Aspacio Woodruff: The Underground Railroad, 68 3/16 x 123 1/2 inches, 1942; from the exhibition ‘Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College,’ at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 9–September 2, 2012. The catalog, by Stephanie Mayer Heydt, is published by the museum and distributed by University of Washington Press.

Should You Have Been an Abolitionist?

The Abolitionist Imagination

by Andrew Delbanco, with commentaries by John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha, Darryl Pinckney, and Wilfred M. McClay

June 21, 2012 issue

The British & the Slave Trade

January 12, 2012 issue

Honor Thy Honor

The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen

by Kwame Anthony Appiah

October 27, 2011 issue

John Henry, right, an escaped slave who joined the Union Army as a servant, 1861–1865

The Universal Attractions of Slavery

Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery

by Seymour Drescher

December 17, 2009 issue

He Changed the New World

Toussaint Louverture: A Biography

by Madison Smartt Bell

May 31, 2007 issue

Blacks: Damned by the Bible

The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

by David M. Goldenberg

November 16, 2006 issue

‘That Hamilton Man’: An Exchange

May 26, 2005 issue

Catching the Conquerors

Captives

by Linda Colley

May 29, 2003 issue

The Terrible Cost of Reconciliation

Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War

by R.J.M. Blackett

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

by David W. Blight

July 18, 2002 issue

‘The Many-Headed Hydra’: An Exchange

September 20, 2001 issue

Slavery—White, Black, Muslim, Christian

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa

by Lamin Sanneh

July 5, 2001 issue

The Election Mess

February 8, 2001 issue

The Other Revolution

Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860

by Bonnie S. Anderson

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

by Geoffrey C. Ward. based on the documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes

Not For Ourselves Alone:The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes

October 5, 2000 issue

Jews and Blacks in America: An Exchange

March 9, 2000 issue

C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999)

February 10, 2000 issue

Jews and Blacks in America

In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935

by Hasia Diner

Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States

edited by Jack Salzman and Cornel West

Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism

by Seth Forman

What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance

by Murray Friedman

African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict

edited by V.P. Franklin and Nancy L. Grant and Harold M. Kletnick and Genna Rae McNeil

killing rage: ending racism

by bell hooks

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December 2, 1999 issue

The Big Business of Slavery

April 8, 1999 issue

A Big Business

The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870

by Hugh Thomas

The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800

by Robin Blackburn

June 11, 1998 issue

Letter

Steven Flanders

The Big Business of Slavery

April 8, 1999 issue

White Wives and Slave Mothers

Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South

by Brenda E. Stevenson

February 20, 1997 issue