Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive...

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a ...

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true s...

This book is an exercise in ethical criticism. It draws on and works with ideas and suggestions from two of its notable exponents, Wayne C. Booth a...

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art ...

The words pride and prejudice became the title of Jane Austen's most famous novel, but the history of the phrase before Austen is less famous. I...

In the 1830s the abolitionist movement in the United States refashioned itself under new leadership which was determined to bring slavery to an imm...

For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, i...

Human trafficking has been at the forefront of policies and campaigns since the passing of the United Nations' Palermo Protocol in 2000. However, s...

An economic history of the Burton family of Norfolk, and their enslaved workers on the Chiswick sugar estate. While the Atlantic plantation econom...

The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War Enslaved people lived in a world ...

How medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkersThough the United States has been heral...

For more than four centuries Britons have been dominating and colonising other peoples and territories. Britains Empires tells that story without f...

International migration and migrants have long been among the most debated topics in Europe and around the globe. How do immigrant policies differ ...

Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteent...

Through the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire of Dutch abolitionist theatre productions, Repertoires of Slavery prises open the conflicting i...

This compelling, richly illustrated work recounts the African journeys of the intrepid Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1835-1869). Heiress to a huge...

This volume examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth centu...

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective storyIn December of 1850, a fac...

Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a...

Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a...

A compelling study into the history and lasting influence of enslaved Native people in early South Carolina.In 1708, the governor of South Carolina...