Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

The domestic sex trafficking of minors is a problem of growing concern yet little critical attention. This book analyzes the forces behind the sex-...

The domestic sex trafficking of minors is a problem of growing concern yet little critical attention. This book analyzes the forces behind the sex-...

'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.' Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the...

In 1789, before the abolition of slavery in Great Britain or the United States of America, poet William Blake quietly appealed to the publics sense...

Ever since W.E.B. du Bois conceptualized slaves self-emancipation during the U.S. Civil War as a general strike, the language of labor history has ...

The global commemorative events of 2007 that marked the bicentennial anniversary of the parliamentary abolition of the African slave trade provided...

Art historian Henry M. Sayre traces the origins of the term value in art criticism, revealing the politics that define Manets art. How did art crit...

The Tudor period remains a source of timeless fascination, with endless novels, TV programmes and films depicting the period in myriad ways. And ye...

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The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery a...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a treasured charity whose mission is to save lives at sea, but what is known of its founder, Sir ...

Spartacus (109?71 BCE), the slave who rebelled against Rome, has been a source of endless fascination: the subject of myth-making in his own time, ...

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

Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slav...

The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of breeding women es...

From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States-a journey that...

Much has been made about South Africa's transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid. Memory features prominently in the country...

During the Roman transition from Republic to Empire in the first century B.C.E., the poet Horace found his own public success in the era of Emperor...