Blain Roberts’y Ethan J. Kytle’s Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy is a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered in Charleston, South Carolina—the heart of Dixie. Tera W. Hunter’s Unidos en Matrimonio: Esclavos y Matrimonios de Negros Libres en el Siglo XIX is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century.  Jim Jordan’s El libro de cartas del traficante de esclavos: Charles Lamar, el vagabundo, y otros cuentos del comercio de esclavos africanos examines seventy long-lost letters that shed light on the lead-up to the Civil War from the remarkable perspective of a troubled, and troubling, figure.