Slavery & Abolition

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Racial Punishment from Slavery to Settler Colonialism: John Picton Beete in Demerara and Swan River8
Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling and Chocolate5
Setting Slavery's Limits: Physical Confrontations in Antebellum Virginia, 1801–18605
Managing ‘Old Mammy’, Making ‘Mother Wit’: Older Enslaved Women, Efficiency, and Survival on the Plantation5
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South5
Patchwork Freedoms: Law Slavery and Race Beyond Cuba’s Plantations Patchwork Freedoms: Law Slavery and Race Beyond Cuba’s Plantations , by Adriana Chira, Cambridge, Camb4
The Abolition of Slavery in the South American Republics4
War, Fire, and Rebellion in Jamaica3
From South Africa to the World: The Political and Legal Legacies of Chinese Indenture in the Transvaal3
Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade3
Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean , by David Alston, Edin3
Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation3
Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–18502
Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery2
Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community2
Natural law philosophy and slavery in Cuba: the captives of schooner Nuestra Señora del Carmen (1795–1803)2
Introduction: Enslavement and the Slave Trade in Asia2
Slavery, Wealth and Britishness2
Happiness in Havana? Día de Reyes as an Emotional Refuge in Colonial Cuba1
African Voices Describe the Middle Passage1
Middle Passages: The Multiple Forced Migrations of Enslaved Africans1
Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 , by Steven J. Brady, Ithaca, NY, Cornell Unive1
Borderless Empire: Dutch Guiana in the Atlantic World, 1750-18001
‘New to Freedom but by no Means New to Faith’: Visions of an Abolitionist Black Catholic Church in Early Haiti (1808-1825)1
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction1
Workers, Wives and Radicals: Women and Abolitionism in the North-East of England, 1792–18651
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress1
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War1
Forum: Histories of Incarceration in Guyana1
In the True Blue’s Wake: Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation1
Finding George Freeman: a ‘Liberated African’ in Berkshire in the Age of Abolition1
Coloniality and the Criminal Justice System: Empire and its Legacies in Guyana1
Trials of Enslavers in Former French Colonies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Testimonies of the Enslaved between Gratitude and Fear1
The Samarra Mutiny of 256/8691
The Origins and Destinations of Captives from the Bight of Biafra, 1807–1843: New Evidence from the Identification of African Names and Languages1
‘Refuge in the British Lines’: Refugees from Slavery and Sanctuary Status in New York City, 1782–17831
Al-Ḥakam I in the Andalusi Sources: His Slaves, Eunuchs, and Concubines1
Unfreedom: Enslaving in New Jersey Through Gradual Abolition and Emancipation1
Muslims for and Against Slavery: Debates on the European Abolitionism Within the Muslim Elite of Saint-Louis, Senegal (1844)1
In the Wake of Maritime Marronage0
The Performance and Appearance of Confidence Among the Enslavers of South Carolina and Cuba0
Freedom, Faith & Sovereignty: The 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt as an Afro-Catholic Royalist Rebellion0
Revisiting the Slave Ship Enterprise in Post-Emancipation Bermuda0
Rendered Useless: The Business of Slavery, a Sick African Girl, and the Law in Colonial Newport0
Well Fed but ‘at the Same Time, Well Beaten’: Amelioration in the Seychelles0
Visions of an Ancient Ethiopian Church and the Africanization of Catholic History in José Antonio Aponte’s Afro-Cuban Codex0
The Overseers of Early American Slavery0
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2020)0
The Re-enslavement of Guadeloupe: Criminal Courts in the Re-establishment of Slavery, 1802–18060
‘The People of All Kinds Who Walk Along the Lines’: The Precarious Mobilities of Unfree Workers on Cuba's Early Railroads0
The Boundaries of Freedom: Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil0
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War0
Fear, Dependency and Complicity in Late Eighteenth-Century Grenada, 1784–17960
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom0
Caribbean Slavery, British Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution(s)?0
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana, 1500-18600
Enslaveability, Slavery and Global Micro Histories: Reflections through the Case of Cali0
On the Verge of War: Black Insurgency, the ‘Christie Affair’, and British Antislavery in Brazil0
Provision Grounds, Fruit, and Labour Conflicts in Jamaica, 1830s–1850s0
Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania , by Beverley C. Tomek, Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 2021, Xiv, 129pp., $19.95 0
In Memoriam0
Coercion and Enslavement in Motion: An Introduction0
‘A Blessing of God’: Marriage and Amelioration in Early Nineteenth-Century Montserrat0
American Slavery, American Imperialism: US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–19140
Black Refugees and the Legal Fiction of Military Manumission in the American Revolution0
‘I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism0
The Morant War of Representation: Freedom and Whiteness in Jamaican Narratives of the Morant Bay Uprising0
‘She Refused to Be Left Behind’: The Sinews of Modern Day Trafficking in the Late Illegal US-Brazil Slave Trade, ca. 1860s–1880s0
Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation0
From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary0
The Haitians: A Decolonial History0
‘The Science of Human Rights:’ American Abolitionism and the Language of Human Rights0
Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race , by Martin Munro, Liverpool, Liverpool U0
Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South0
Who’s Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Who’s Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race ,0
‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements0
Sick Minds, Unproductive Bodies: Nostalgia, Slavery, and Feeling in Late-Eighteenth-Century Cuba0
Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles0
The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade0
Slavery Represented in Bactrian Documents0
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in An0
Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–18740
Islamic Tombstones for Slaves from Abbasid-Era Egypt0
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War 0
Free to Bury Their Dead: Baptism and the Meanings of Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean0
Black Rangers, Enslaved Mobilities, and the Black Geography of Early Nineteenth-Century Grenada0
The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South0
Debating Slavery After the Southampton Insurrection: A Crisis among North Carolina Slave Owners, 1831–18320
The Hazards of Love: Family Formation Against the Financial Environment of Slavery in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti0
Re-Producing the Meaning of the Geography of Enslavement: Henry Box Brown’s Subversive Geographical Resistance0
How Much Do We Really Know About Somerset v. Stewart (1772)? The Missing Evidence of Contemporary Newspapers0
Whose Emotions?0
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2021)0
Captive Wives or Conjugal Slaves? The Slavery-Marriage Nexus in Northern Uganda Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century0
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code0
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States0
In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History0
Chinese Perspectives on Chinese Indentured Labourers during the First World War0
The International Trafficking of Chinese Children and its Conflicting Legalities in Mid-Nineteenth Century Treaty-Port China0
‘Slavery Dies Hard’: A Radical Perspective on the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica0
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean0
The Guyana Maroons, 1796–1834: Persistent and Resilient until the End of Slavery0
Catholic Antislavery: Epifanio Moirans’ Servi Liberi ( All Slaves Must be Freed , 1681), Lorenzo Da Silva Mendoza, and the Holy Office Dec0
‘Thousands Now Unhappy’: Slave Petitions in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut0
Slavery in the Dutch Colonial Empire in Southeast Asia: Seventeenth-Century Amboina Reconsidered0
A Global History of Slavery in the Medieval Millennium0
Surrender to a Slave Society: Fighting the Illegal Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century Suriname0
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition0
Editor’s Note: A 40th Anniversary0
Enslaved Women and Creoles in Guadalajara’s Slave Market, 1615–17350
‘Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country’: Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionist Writings on India and its Legacies0
Introduction: Historicizing the Abolition of Chinese Indentured Labour0
Les Mondes de L’esclavage. Une Histoire Comparée0
African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery0
The Journeys of Eleven African Captives to the Mines of Antioquia, New Kingdom of Granada (1573-1589)0
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom0
Slavery in an Authoritarian Republic: The Policing of Dissent and the Rise of State Slavery in Paraguay (1821–1840)0
Introduction: Catholicism and Antislavery: Connecting Histories in the Atlantic World0
Duet with John Bull: The Black Abolitionist Mission to the British Isles During the American Civil War0
Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Shipping, 1680-1807 Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Shipping, 1680-1807 0
‘They Gave Me Nothing’: Marriage, Slavery and Divorce in Twentieth-Century Abeokuta0
A Haitian Revolutionary Manifesto? New Perspectives on the ‘Letter of Jean-François, Biassou, and Belair’0
Colonial-Imposed Slavery and African Abolitionism: The Early Twentieth- Century Lagos Elites’ Campaign Against the Native House Rule Ordinance0
Household Servants and Slaves. A Visual History 1300–1700 Household Servants and Slaves. A Visual History 1300–1700 , by Diane Wolfthal, New Haven and London, Yale Unive0
‘Sterile Citizens’ & ‘Excellent Disbursers’: Opium and the Representations of Indentured Migrant Consumption in British Guiana and Trinidad0
A Narrative of Escape: Self Liberation by Sea and the Mental Worlds of the Enslaved0
Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade , by 0
Old Age and American Slavery0
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement0
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana0
Slavery and Marriage in African Societies0
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges0
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America0
Legislating Liberty: Liberated Africans and the Abolition Act, 1806–18240
Indigenous Freedom Suits, Epistemological Mobilities, and the Deep Archive0
‘Enslavement, Emotions and Oppositional Insolence in the Slave Society of British Guiana’0
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France0
Illegally Sold: The Josefa Segunda and Its Captives in New Orleans, 1818–18320
The Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison, and Fear in the Antebellum Press0
Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece , by Sara Forsdyke, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 277 pp., $24.99 (paperback), I0
‘Her Work of Love’: Forced Separations, Maternal Grief, and Enslaved Mothers’ Emotional Practices in the Antebellum US South0
The National Story of Racial Science and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America0
The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay0
‘Master Said He Was Over All the Magistrates’: Intimacy, Belonging, and Power Struggle within a Jamaican Houseful0
Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Colour in the South0
Recultivating Connections across the Indian Ocean0
Maritime Marronage: Archaeological, Anthropological, and Historical Approaches0
A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution , by John D. Garrigus0
The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond0
Overseen and Overlooked: Spanish and British Silencing of Labor Resistance in Post-Emancipation Puerto Rico0
Indenture Beyond the ‘Coolie’ Trade: Reinitiating Chinese Indentured Migration to Cuba after the Chinese Commission Report (1874–1920)0
‘I Request Charity and Justice’: The Lives of Enslaved and Free African Descent Peoples in New Spain’s North Frontier0
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory0
Afflicted Slaves, Faithful Vassals: Sevícias, Manumission, and Enslaved Petitioners in Eighteenth-Century Brazil0
The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade0
‘No Country, No People, Ever Pleased Me So Much’: Black Activists in Wales and Welsh Anti-Slavery Activism in the Nineteenth-Century0
‘Horrible Enough to Stir a Man's Soul’: Enslaved Men, Emotions, and Heterosexual Intimacy in the Antebellum U.S. South0
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas0
Anti-slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?0
Britain’s Black Past0
The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World0
Haunting the Landscape: Fear and Empowerment in Slavery and its Aftermath in the U.S. South0
A ‘Liberal Solution’ to Slave Emancipation: State Institutions, Party Politics, and the Trials of Political Abolitionism in Mid-1880s Brazil0
Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s History of Slavery0
Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–18650
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery0
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Found0
Enslavement between Worlds: Manuel Zapata’s Many Captive Mobilities0
‘An Extremely Mild Form of Slavery … of the Worst Sort’: American Perceptions of Slavery in the Sulu Sultanate, 1899–19040
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World ,0
Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire0
The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth Century United States The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility0
A Question of Freedom: The Families who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War0
Memory, Trauma and ‘Affective Autonomy’: Displaying Emotion and Trauma at the International Slavery Museum0
The smell of slavery: olfactory racism and the Atlantic world0
The Same in All but Name? The Intersections of Marriage and Slavery in Sierra Leone, 1890–19300
A Post-Emancipation Fiction of Black Imperial Masculinity: John Briggs’s The History of Jim Crow (1839)0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
The London Emancipation Society and Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Civil War Era, 1859–18650
‘Liberating’ Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: A Review of LiberatedAfricans.org0
What ‘The Books … Would Tell’: Slavery, Freedom, and History in Slave Traders’ Archives0
‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–17910
Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic World Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic World , by Cassander L. Smith, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State U0
The Persistence of Indigenous Unfreedom in Early American Newspaper Advertisements, 1704–18040
Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative0
Immigration, Intoxication, Insanity, and Incarceration in British Guiana0
Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean0
Fragile Empire: Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1645–17200
Slavery, Fatherhood, Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long-Nineteenth Century0
Religion and Antislavery in Revolutionary France and Saint-Domingue0
Slavery on Display0
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–18500
I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America0
Introduction0
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations0
Convicts: A Global History Convicts: A Global History , by Clare Anderson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, xv+476 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-84072-9(hardback)£74.990
The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans0
Natural Rights in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Religion and the Emergence of Antislavery in Enlightenment France0
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation0
From a Chicken in Every Pot to a Time of Scarcity: Rethinking Slavery in the Crimean Khanate0
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic ,0
Historicising Ancient Slavery0
In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History0
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime and Clemency in Early Virginia; Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance The Demands of Justice: Enslaved W0
Jacob D. Green and Britain’s Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist Network0
Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital0
Brokering Abolition by Land and Sea: Africans in the British Consulate and Navy in Zanzibar, c. 1860–19070
Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery0
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2023)0
Exporting the Unfortunate: The European Slave Trade from India, 1500–18000
‘Very Fond of Spirituous Liquors’: Alcohol and Fugitive Black Life in the Slaveholding South0
A Slave at the Press: Peter Fleet and Reports of Slave Unrest in the Boston Evening-Post, 1735–17580
‘Concubines’, ‘Mistresses’, ‘Wives’: Questions of Intimacy, Violence, and Power in the British Atlantic and U.S. South0
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century0
Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790-18480
Slavery, Capitalism and the British Economy0
For the Record: Muzio Costanzo, ‘Franciscus Etiopem’, and Paris Bordon’s Portrait of a Man in Armour with Two Pages0
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 17560
Capitalism and Slavery Revitalized: Reflections on Berg and Hudson0
Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Northern Encounters with Self-Emancipated Black Southerners in Fuelling the U.S. Civil War and Slavery’s Collapse0
After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi0
Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World: Texts and Contexts0
From ‘Political Captivity’ to ‘Economic Captivity’: Korean Peninsula Slaves in the Tang Dynasty China (618–907)0
Beyond 1619: The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery0
A New System of Slavery at Age Fifty0
Racist Regimes, Forced Labour and Death: British Slavery in the Caribbean and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe0
Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World , by Christ0
Liberators or Perpetrators? Co-Opting, Committing, and Condoning Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in the Early Belgian Congo0
Captive Mobilities: Movement, Slavery, and Knowledge Production in the Iberian World0
Female Captive Mobilities and the ‘Countervoyage’ in the Luso-Atlantic World0
‘[A]s Fast as Ships Return he Will Send Every one a Boy’: Enslaved Children as Gifts in the British Atlantic0
‘A Very Thorny’ Question: Debates on Slavery between Capuchin Missionaries and the Roman Holy Office in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries0
The Political Ideas of the Haitian Revolutionaries: A Forum0
Flights of Opportunity: An Investigation of Runaway Assimilation and Employment Opportunity in the Cape Colony, 1830–18420
Contested Pasts and Mythic History: Formerly Enslaved Women, Francis Pickens, and the Federal Writer’s Project0
Slave Trade Insurance in the Age of Abolition: Archives, Politics, and Legalities0
Retaining Chinese Indentured Labour in Interwar British and French Pacific colonies0
Indigenous Slavery in the Circum-Caribbean: The Miskitu’s Slave Trade and Its Consequences0
The Persistence of Memory: Remembering Slavery in Liverpool, ‘slaving capital of the world’0
Making Marriages at the ‘End of Slavery’: Religion, Identity, and Law in the Early Colonial French Soudan0
An Abolitionist Vicious Circle: Slaving, Antislavery, and Violence on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika at the Onset of Colonial Occupation0
Demanding Racial Equality: Free People of Color and the 1791 Concordats in Saint-Domingue0
Bonded: Elite Marriage and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho0
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South0
A Sea of Caribbean Islands: Maritime Maroons in the Greater Caribbean0
African Indentured Labor in Senegal and Ste. Marie, Madagascar, 1817–18300
Exceptions to the Abolition of Chinese Indenture: Chinese workers on rubber estates in Interwar British Malaya0
‘Dere never wuz a war like dis war’: The WPA Narratives and the Emotional Echoes of the Civil War0
The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered: William Johnson and Black Masculinity in the Antebellum South The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered: William Johnson and Black Masculinity in the Antebe0
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