February 2024 Issue Michael Taylor The Long Road to Emancipation The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888 By Robin Blackburn Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade By Hannah Durkin LR
August 2019 Issue Richard Carwardine Emancipation and Beyond Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom By David W Blight
October 1998 Issue Elaine Showalter Huck Finn as a Female – All in a Good Cause The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton By Jane Smiley LR
September 2016 Issue Tim Stanley With Flying Colours The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire By Karl Jacoby LR
December 1990 Issue Elizabeth Imlay No Fun for Slaves Fanny Kemble: The American Journals By Fanny Kemble & Elizabeth Mavor (ed) LR
May 2004 Issue Paul Johnson Man On A Manumission An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, And The Creation of America By Henry Wiencek LR
August 2011 Issue Josh Glancy The Great Emancipator The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery By Eric Foner LR
May 2009 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Found At Sea Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade By Sîân Rees LR
February 2009 Issue Dominic Sandbrook American Idol Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin LR
February 2013 Issue Josh Glancy The Sin that Wouldn’t Die Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II By Douglas A Blackmon
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