Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid examines the largest and most complex freedom suit litigated in the highest court of the Spanish empire at the end of ...

After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Sim...

Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Me...

Does the Qur'an promote the abolition of slavery? If so, why had the slave trade been allowed to operate across the Muslim world for over a millenn...

GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 WATERSTONES: JANUARYS BEST BOOKS ...

This book offers a fresh, bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English constructions; and the Church of En...

This fascinating study traces sixteenth-century German colonialism in Venezuela through the lens of racialized capitalism and the subsequent memori...

What is human trafficking? Despite legislative developments and national and international interventions, we still lack firm definitions, estimates...

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking...

On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopolds Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting ...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the...

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the fi...

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumula...

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume covers the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the selection of essays here lo...

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume looks at the eighteenth century, which saw the high point of the Atlantic slave trade. It...