Ana Lucia Araujo. The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
“A remarkable counternarrative told through the history of material objects troubles what we know about commodification in West and West Central Africa.” Herman Bennett, author of African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic
Randy Browne. The Driver’s Story : Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.
“The Driver’s Story is a critical contribution to scholarship on the nexus of race, power, and capitalism in the Atlantic world.” H-Slavery.
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. The Unseen Truth : When Race Changed Sight in America. Harvard University Press, 2024.
“Each chapter exposes the ‘racial detailing’ that has constructed a repressive racial regime that, once seen, can be undone.” Nell Irvin Painter, author of the New York Times bestseller The History of White People.
Aimé. Césaire, and Alex Gil. ……And the Dogs Were Silent = ……Et Les Chiens Se Taisaient. Translated by Alex Gil. Duke University Press, 2024.
“This bilingual edition is a precious gift to readers, offering new biographical information about one of the Caribbean’s most beloved authors alongside Gil’s brilliant translation.” Marlene Daut, author of The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.
Ana Lucia Araujo. Humans in Shackles : An Atlantic History of Slavery. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
“A sweeping and essential history of the slave trade.” Kirkus Reviews.
Lissette Acosta Corniel, ed. Transatlantic Bondage : Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico. State University of New York Press, 2024.
“Dedicated to original archival research, this volume goes a long way toward correcting the neglect of Spanish Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico in studies of the African diaspora in the Americas.” Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.
Manisha Sinha. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic : Reconstruction, 1860-1920. Liveright, 2024.
“[A]n ambitious and expansive history of the tumultuous period known as Reconstruction…” Wall Street Journal.
Seth Rockman. Plantation Goods : A Material History of American Slavery. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
“a brilliant book that shows how slavery permeated the American landscape.” Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.
Susanna Ashton. A Plausible Man : The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The New Press, 2024
“A Plausible Man is a remarkable piece of historical sleuthing.” Wall Street Journal.
David Lester and Marcus Rediker. Revolution by Fire : New York’s Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741 : A Graphic Novel. Beacon Press, 2024.
“brings into full view America’s slave past and how enslaved people courageously rebelled against their enslavers.” Karlos K. Hill, author of The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History.