Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significant—and long forgotten—Supreme

Given that strong asymmetrical dependencies have shaped human societies throughout history, this kind of social relation has also left its traces in many types

The true story of the Royal Navy’s sixty-year campaign to stop slavery across the British Empire, decades before the American Civil War. Long before recorded

Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.

In Life at Sea, anthropologist Monique Layton draws on her experiences on modern cruise ships to examine the evolution of sailing from the Age of Exploration to