In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the inter
The harrowing true story of America's first known cyber-serial killer--a churchgoing husband and father of four who lured women from the mid-1980s to 2000, brut
"Dear Master" is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an America
John Edward Robinson was a 56-year-old grandfather from rural Kansas. An entrepreneur and Eagle Scout, he was even honored as 'Man of the Year" at a Kansas City
William Hardin Burnley (1780–1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he set