Publications

Gilder Lehrman Center Publications

“Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement,” a comprehensive survey of the past year’s scholarship on the subject, published annually in the December issue of the journal Slavery & Abolition.

Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy, Genevieve LeBaron,  Jessica R. Pliley, and David W. Blight, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation, David W. Blight and Jim Downs, eds.; Foreword by Eric Foner (University of Georgia Press, 2017).

Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition, Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon, and David W. Blight, eds. (Yale University Press, 2013).

The Problem of Slavery as History: A Global Approach, Joseph C. Miller (Yale University Press, 2012).

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, David Eltis and David Richardson; Foreword by David Brion Davis; Afterword by David W. Blight (Yale University Press, 2010).

William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: History, Legacy, and Memory, James Brewer Stewart, ed. (Yale University Press, 2008).

Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation, Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, eds. (Yale University Press, 2007).

Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age, Christopher Leslie Brown and Philip D. Morgan, eds. (Yale University Press, 2006).

The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, Walter Johnson, ed.; Foreword by David Brion Davis (Yale University Press, 2004).