Philippe Girard. Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 352 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09413-4.
Reviewed by Charlton Yingling (University of Louisville) Published on H-Slavery (January, 2018) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels. The Civil War in the United States. Edited by Andrew Zimmerman. New York: International Publishers, 2016. 254 pp. $14.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7178-0753-6.
Reviewed by Niels Eichhorn (Middle Georgia State University) Published on H-Slavery (January, 2018) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, Barbara Hahn. Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities. The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 176 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-1940-4; $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-1939-8.
Reviewed by Chris Evans (University of South Wales) Published on H-Slavery (October, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Matthew Harper. The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. 224 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-2936-0.
Reviewed by Nicole M. Turner (Virginia Commonwealth University) Published on H-Slavery (September, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Christy Clark-Pujara. Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island. Early American Places Series. New York: New York University Press, 2016. 224 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4798-7042-4.
Reviewed by Kate McMahon (Howard University) Published on H-Slavery (September, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Julia O'Connell Davidson. Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x + 250 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-29727-3.
Reviewed by Whitney Stewart (University of Texas at Dallas) Published on H-Slavery (July, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Ronald C. White. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Random House, 2016. Maps. 864 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4000-6902-6.
Reviewed by Chris Fobare (Utica College) Published on H-Slavery (June, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Wim Klooster. The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. 432 pp. Illustrations. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5045-7.
Reviewed by Bram Hoonhout (Leiden University) Published on H-Slavery (June, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Nicholas Guyatt. Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 416 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-01841-3.
Reviewed by Timothy Minella (Emory University, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry) Published on H-Slavery (June, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Michael D. Thompson. Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port. Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Series. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. 312 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61117-474-8.
Reviewed by James Illingworth (University of Maryland, College Park) Published on H-Slavery (June, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Leonardo Marques. The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 328 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21241-9.
Reviewed by Daniel Rood (University of Georgia) Published on H-Slavery (June, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Christoph Witzenrath, ed. Eurasian Slavery, Ransom and Abolition in World History. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. 390 pp. $144.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4724-1058-0.
Reviewed by Hannah Barker (Department of History, Rhodes College) Published on H-Slavery (May, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Patrick H. Breen. The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 320 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-982800-5.
Reviewed by Robert Paquette (Alexander Hamilton Institute) Published on H-Slavery (April, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Alfred L. Brophy. University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 408 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-996423-9.
Reviewed by Jamie Diane Wilson (University of South Carolina) Published on H-Slavery (March, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
Noeleen McIlvenna. The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 158 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-2403-7.
Reviewed by Timothy Fritz (Mount St. Mary's University) Published on H-Slavery (March, 2017) Commissioned by David M. Prior
