- Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
- Jane G. Landers
- Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Through prodigious archival research, Jane Landers radically alters our vision of the breadth and extent of the Age of Revolution, and our understanding of its actors.
- Hardcover 2010
- Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World
- Youval Rotman
- Translated by Jane Marie Todd
- Slavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non-freedom in contemporary societies. Arguing against the use of the term “slavery” for any extreme form of social dependency, Rotman shows instead that slavery and freedom are unrelated concepts. His work offers a radical new understanding of the geopolitical and religious dynamics that have defined and redefined slavery and freedom, in the past and in our own time.
- Hardcover 2009
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Harriet A. Jacobs
- Edited by Jean Fagan Yellin
- This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother’s perspective to Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography. This is the standard edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, reissued here in the John Harvard Library and updated with a new bibliography.
- Paperback 2009