"It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!" The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike....

Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its "human cargo". This is a highly engaging, rare, first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade. Crow depic...

At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of representative pamphlets encompassing the arguments put forwa...