Author: Professor James Walvin

How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing th...

'Walvin synthesises this complex global history with skill and ingenuity. Freedom is beautifully written and clearly organised . . . thought-provok...

This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running ...

A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can o...

An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity'...