Recent Publicity

CHOICE calls The American Slave Coast "a useful addition to the historiography of slavery."

Pacific Standard says The American Slave Coast is "brutal and uncompromising, and, for better or worse, it’s how we should understand the country." 

Wall Street Journal calls The American Slave Coast "an often heart-wrenching descent into one of the darkest corners of slavery’s history.”
 

Counterpunch featured The American Slave Coast in a round-up of the "Top 10 Books of 2015." They say, "This sprawling and unsparing history of the American slave-breeding industry may be the most important book of the last decade."

The American Slave Coast was featured in Smithsonian magazine's "Best History Books of 2015." 

The New York Journal of Books reviewed The American Slave Coast, saying "Even to the serious scholar of the subject, The American Slave Coast can open new ideas on unfamiliar ground in the general subject of human bondage." 

Ned and Constance Sublette, authors of The American Slave Coast, were interviewed by The Times-Picayune columnist Jarvis DeBerry. His column and video interview are both available online. 

In The Guardian's book round-up of "The books that prove black lives have always mattered in America," the writer says The American Slave Coast "offers an economic history and theory of slavery that is blunt in its assessment, unassailable in its argument and accessible to a general reader." 

AlterNet featured The American Slave Coast in two separate posts. It was excerpted on October 1 and a review titled "America Was Built On Slavery and It Was Much Worse Than You Might Imagine" was posted on October 2.

Kirkus Reviews called The American Slave Coast "a massive story of impressive research." The complete review is available via the above link.