For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. A

For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. A

Irish Americans who supported the movement for the repeal of the act of parliamentary union between Ireland and Great Britain during the early 1840s encountered

"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a familiar subject that manages

Details what the author believes to be common misinterpretations and misrepresentations about slavery, arguing that slavery was not solely a Southern institutio