The most popular slavery books of 2026

Race and Slavery in the Middle East

By Flesh and Toil How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

Mélanie Lamotte

Ties That Bound

J. C. Sharman

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt

Craig Perry

Redeem a Nation The Case for Reparations

Damario Solomon-Simmons

The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman Hope, Terror, and Exodus in the Post-Civil War South

Henry Adams

Stealing America The Untold Story of Indigenous Slavery in American History

Linford D. Fisher

The Great Resistance The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas

Carrie Gibson

The Crown's Silence The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas

Brooke N. Newman

Moving Toward Freedom The Political Education of Enslaved Americans

Susan Eva O'Donovan

Bloody Numbers

Pablo F. Gómez

The Secret Life of the Hotel Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918

Eloise Moss

Black Abolitionists in Ireland

Christine Kinealy

Sails and Shadows How the Portuguese Opened the Atlantic and Launched the Slave Trade

Patricia Seed

Culture and Environment in the Early French Caribbean

Michael Harrigan

The Mind of the Slave The Limits of Ownership in Roman Law and Society

Nicole J. Giannella

George Washington and Frederick the Great Parallel Lives

Jürgen Overhoff

Slave Owner and Paternalist Sir William Young (1749-1815) in England and the Caribbean

P. J. Marshall

Curious about Juneteenth

Artika R. Tyner

Echoes from the Attic Stories of Slavery and Freedom-Making in Newport, Ri

Akeia de Barros Gomes

Curious about Juneteenth

Artika Tyner

The Crown’s Silence

Brooke Newman

I'll Samba Someplace Else A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo

Andrew G. Britt

Legal Framework of Slavery in the Dutch Republic and Its Colonies

Bastiaan D. van der Velden