Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a ...

A bold rereading of Augustinian thought for a world still haunted by slavery   Over the last two decades, scholars have made a striking return to t...

Antietam. For generations of Americans this word - the name of a bucolic stream in western Maryland - held the same sense of horror and carnage tha...

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade   Shortlisted for the 2024...

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and ensla...

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and ensla...

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to R...

In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impac...

How children helped abolish slavery During the antebellum period, several abolitionist figures, including William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the...

Yorkshireman Lionel Abson was the longest surviving European stationed in West Africa in the eighteenth century. He reached William's Fort at Ouida...

Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements ...

After West Indian slavery was abolished in 1833, the campaign turned to the wider world and the goal of Universal Emancipation. Veteran agitators J...

What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of s...

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This seventh volume ...

An Open Access edition will be available on publication. The murder of George Floyd in 2020, the renewed international take up of the cry Black Liv...

An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and R...

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation...

From the 1811 German Coast Slave Rebellion to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, from the truancy of enslaved women to the extreme self-discipline ex...

From the 1811 German Coast Slave Rebellion to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, from the truancy of enslaved women to the extreme self-discipline ex...

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation...

A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe an...

Utilizing local analysis to make global conclusions, Drama Under the Skin uses ritual as a lens to examine race and identity formation of both free...