Slavery & Abolition

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Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling and Chocolate10
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South6
Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean5
Managing ‘Old Mammy’, Making ‘Mother Wit’: Older Enslaved Women, Efficiency, and Survival on the Plantation4
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
Racial Punishment from Slavery to Settler Colonialism: John Picton Beete in Demerara and Swan River3
The Abolition of Slavery in the South American Republics3
Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation3
From South Africa to the World: The Political and Legal Legacies of Chinese Indenture in the Transvaal3
Natural law philosophy and slavery in Cuba: the captives of schooner Nuestra Señora del Carmen (1795–1803)2
Happiness in Havana? Día de Reyes as an Emotional Refuge in Colonial Cuba2
Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade2
Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery2
Workers, Wives and Radicals: Women and Abolitionism in the North-East of England, 1792–18652
Slavery, Wealth and Britishness2
Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community2
Introduction: Enslavement and the Slave Trade in Asia2
Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–18502
Al-Ḥakam I in the Andalusi Sources: His Slaves, Eunuchs, and Concubines1
Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 18651
The Origins and Destinations of Captives from the Bight of Biafra, 1807–1843: New Evidence from the Identification of African Names and Languages1
The Samarra Mutiny of 256/8691
A Coromantee from Dahomey? On the Meaning of ‘Dorme’ in Jamaica and the West African Origins of Apongo, an Enslaved Rebel Leader1
Runaway Enslaved Families in Senegal: Mothers, Children, Resistance, and Vulnerabilities, 1857–19031
For the Record: Muzio Costanzo, ‘Franciscus Etiopem’, and Paris Bordon’s Portrait of a Man in Armour with Two Pages1
‘New to Freedom but by no Means New to Faith’: Visions of an Abolitionist Black Catholic Church in Early Haiti (1808-1825)1
In the True Blue’s Wake: Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation1
Coloniality and the Criminal Justice System: Empire and its Legacies in Guyana1
Middle Passages: The Multiple Forced Migrations of Enslaved Africans1
Arbitrating Abolition: Women’s Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 19071
‘Refuge in the British Lines’: Refugees from Slavery and Sanctuary Status in New York City, 1782–17831
Finding George Freeman: a ‘Liberated African’ in Berkshire in the Age of Abolition1
‘She Refused to Be Left Behind’: The Sinews of Modern Day Trafficking in the Late Illegal US-Brazil Slave Trade, ca. 1860s–1880s1
From ‘Political Captivity’ to ‘Economic Captivity’: Korean Peninsula Slaves in the Tang Dynasty China (618–907)1
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction1
Muslims for and Against Slavery: Debates on the European Abolitionism Within the Muslim Elite of Saint-Louis, Senegal (1844)1
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War1
Trials of Enslavers in Former French Colonies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Testimonies of the Enslaved between Gratitude and Fear1
African Voices Describe the Middle Passage1
Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia1
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress1
Forum: Histories of Incarceration in Guyana1
The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade1
‘Her Work of Love’: Forced Separations, Maternal Grief, and Enslaved Mothers’ Emotional Practices in the Antebellum US South1
Unfreedom: Enslaving in New Jersey Through Gradual Abolition and Emancipation1
From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary0
The Journeys of Eleven African Captives to the Mines of Antioquia, New Kingdom of Granada (1573-1589)0
The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–18880
Rendered Useless: The Business of Slavery, a Sick African Girl, and the Law in Colonial Newport0
Slavery and Marriage in African Societies0
The Illicit Intimacies of Thomasin Brathwaite: Care and Survival in a Post-Emancipation Barbados Prison0
Surrender to a Slave Society: Fighting the Illegal Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century Suriname0
Natural Rights in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Religion and the Emergence of Antislavery in Enlightenment France0
Capitalism and Slavery Revitalized: Reflections on Berg and Hudson0
Straddling the Worlds of Slavery and Abolition in the Hijaz from the 1850s-1910s0
Captive Mobilities: Movement, Slavery, and Knowledge Production in the Iberian World0
The Hazards of Love: Family Formation Against the Financial Environment of Slavery in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti0
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France0
Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality0
‘Horrible Enough to Stir a Man's Soul’: Enslaved Men, Emotions, and Heterosexual Intimacy in the Antebellum U.S. South0
A ‘Liberal Solution’ to Slave Emancipation: State Institutions, Party Politics, and the Trials of Political Abolitionism in Mid-1880s Brazil0
‘Sterile Citizens’ & ‘Excellent Disbursers’: Opium and the Representations of Indentured Migrant Consumption in British Guiana and Trinidad0
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 17560
Overseen and Overlooked: Spanish and British Silencing of Labor Resistance in Post-Emancipation Puerto Rico0
Afflicted Slaves, Faithful Vassals: Sevícias, Manumission, and Enslaved Petitioners in Eighteenth-Century Brazil0
Coercion and Enslavement in Motion: An Introduction0
The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond0
Catholic Antislavery: Epifanio Moirans’ Servi Liberi ( All Slaves Must be Freed , 1681), Lorenzo Da Silva Mendoza, and the Holy Office Dec0
‘The Science of Human Rights:’ American Abolitionism and the Language of Human Rights0
Every Step of the Way: Collective and Individual Resistance to Slavery in Sudan, ca. 1820–18500
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century0
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
‘No Country, No People, Ever Pleased Me So Much’: Black Activists in Wales and Welsh Anti-Slavery Activism in the Nineteenth-Century0
Chinese Perspectives on Chinese Indentured Labourers during the First World War0
The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1660–18070
Racist Regimes, Forced Labour and Death: British Slavery in the Caribbean and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe0
The Morant War of Representation: Freedom and Whiteness in Jamaican Narratives of the Morant Bay Uprising0
Islamic Tombstones for Slaves from Abbasid-Era Egypt0
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America0
‘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
‘[A]s Fast as Ships Return he Will Send Every one a Boy’: Enslaved Children as Gifts in the British Atlantic0
The Persistence of Indigenous Unfreedom in Early American Newspaper Advertisements, 1704–18040
Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s History of Slavery0
A Global History of Slavery in the Medieval Millennium0
Captive Wives or Conjugal Slaves? The Slavery-Marriage Nexus in Northern Uganda Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century0
Enslaveability, Slavery and Global Micro Histories: Reflections through the Case of Cali0
Debating Slavery After the Southampton Insurrection: A Crisis among North Carolina Slave Owners, 1831–18320
Visions of an Ancient Ethiopian Church and the Africanization of Catholic History in José Antonio Aponte’s Afro-Cuban Codex0
‘Slavery Dies Hard’: A Radical Perspective on the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica0
The Performance and Appearance of Confidence Among the Enslavers of South Carolina and Cuba0
Memory, Trauma and ‘Affective Autonomy’: Displaying Emotion and Trauma at the International Slavery Museum0
Haunting the Landscape: Fear and Empowerment in Slavery and its Aftermath in the U.S. South0
Retaining Chinese Indentured Labour in Interwar British and French Pacific colonies0
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War0
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
Whose Emotions?0
‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–17910
Duet with John Bull: The Black Abolitionist Mission to the British Isles During the American Civil War0
African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery0
A Post-Emancipation Fiction of Black Imperial Masculinity: John Briggs’s The History of Jim Crow (1839)0
American Slavery, American Imperialism: US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–19140
A Haitian Revolutionary Manifesto? New Perspectives on the ‘Letter of Jean-François, Biassou, and Belair’0
Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present0
Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist0
Slavery on Display0
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom0
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
Rev. Robert Robertson, Edmund Gibson and the Defence of Slavery0
Illegally Sold: The Josefa Segunda and Its Captives in New Orleans, 1818–18320
African Indentured Labor in Senegal and Ste. Marie, Madagascar, 1817–18300
The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans0
‘Enslavement, Emotions and Oppositional Insolence in the Slave Society of British Guiana’0
Freedom, Faith & Sovereignty: The 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt as an Afro-Catholic Royalist Rebellion0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom0
The Legal Infrastructure for the Enslavement of the Aucas of Chile in the Seventeenth Century0
Indigenous Slavery in the Circum-Caribbean: The Miskitu’s Slave Trade and Its Consequences0
Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World: Texts and Contexts0
What ‘The Books … Would Tell’: Slavery, Freedom, and History in Slave Traders’ Archives0
In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History0
The National Story of Racial Science and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America0
I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America0
Sick Minds, Unproductive Bodies: Nostalgia, Slavery, and Feeling in Late-Eighteenth-Century Cuba0
A New System of Slavery at Age Fifty0
‘Mum Told Me All About Her Ancestors’: Milonga , Ancestry, and Women’s Legal Resistance to Slavery, Belgian Congo, 1908–19600
How Much Do We Really Know About Somerset v. Stewart (1772)? The Missing Evidence of Contemporary Newspapers0
Introduction: Historicizing the Abolition of Chinese Indentured Labour0
Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South0
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
From a Chicken in Every Pot to a Time of Scarcity: Rethinking Slavery in the Crimean Khanate0
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2023)0
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
Slavery Represented in Bactrian Documents0
The Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison, and Fear in the Antebellum Press0
The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South0
‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements0
Enslavement between Worlds: Manuel Zapata’s Many Captive Mobilities0
Exporting the Unfortunate: The European Slave Trade from India, 1500–18000
In Memoriam0
Indigenous Freedom Suits, Epistemological Mobilities, and the Deep Archive0
Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Northern Encounters with Self-Emancipated Black Southerners in Fuelling the U.S. Civil War and Slavery’s Collapse0
Flights of Opportunity: An Investigation of Runaway Assimilation and Employment Opportunity in the Cape Colony, 1830–18420
Warfare, Bestowal, Purchase: Dutch Acquisition of Slaves in the World of Eastern Indonesia, 1650–18000
Female Captive Mobilities and the ‘Countervoyage’ in the Luso-Atlantic World0
‘If They Regarded Mathematical Accuracy’: Problems of Exactness in the ‘Improved’ Versions of the Slave Ship Brooks0
The International Trafficking of Chinese Children and its Conflicting Legalities in Mid-Nineteenth Century Treaty-Port China0
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
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London0
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World0
The Persistence of Memory: Remembering Slavery in Liverpool, ‘slaving capital of the world’0
Transnational Digital Resistance? Collective On- and Offline Anti-Slavery Mobilisations by the Soninke Movement Ganbanaaxun Fedde in Mali, Mauritania and the Diaspora, 2016–20240
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2021)0
Household Servants and Slaves. A Visual History 1300–17000
The Political Ideas of the Haitian Revolutionaries: A Forum0
Les Mondes de L’esclavage. Une Histoire Comparée0
Slavery in an Authoritarian Republic: The Policing of Dissent and the Rise of State Slavery in Paraguay (1821–1840)0
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement0
Caribbean Slavery, British Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution(s)?0
Introduction: Catholicism and Antislavery: Connecting Histories in the Atlantic World0
Fleeing from the Caravan Trade: Porters’ Resistance in Central Angola During the Transition to Legitimate Commerce in the Mid- Nineteenth Century0
Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic0
Exceptions to the Abolition of Chinese Indenture: Chinese workers on rubber estates in Interwar British Malaya0
The Re-enslavement of Guadeloupe: Criminal Courts in the Re-establishment of Slavery, 1802–18060
Slavery in the Dutch Colonial Empire in Southeast Asia: Seventeenth-Century Amboina Reconsidered0
Jacob D. Green and Britain’s Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist Network0
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition0
On the Verge of War: Black Insurgency, the ‘Christie Affair’, and British Antislavery in Brazil0
Well Fed but ‘at the Same Time, Well Beaten’: Amelioration in the Seychelles0
An Abolitionist Vicious Circle: Slaving, Antislavery, and Violence on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika at the Onset of Colonial Occupation0
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean0
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
Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery0
Revisiting the Slave Ship Enterprise in Post-Emancipation Bermuda0
Slavery, Capitalism and the British Economy0
Editor’s Note: A 40th Anniversary0
Fear, Dependency and Complicity in Late Eighteenth-Century Grenada, 1784–17960
Contested Pasts and Mythic History: Formerly Enslaved Women, Francis Pickens, and the Federal Writer’s Project0
Immigration, Intoxication, Insanity, and Incarceration in British Guiana0
The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay0
‘Liberating’ Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: A Review of LiberatedAfricans.org0
‘Thousands Now Unhappy’: Slave Petitions in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut0
Introduction0
Provision Grounds, Fruit, and Labour Conflicts in Jamaica, 1830s–1850s0
Making Marriages at the ‘End of Slavery’: Religion, Identity, and Law in the Early Colonial French Soudan0
Horatio Gates and the Question of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era0
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–18500
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
Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean0
Indenture Beyond the ‘Coolie’ Trade: Reinitiating Chinese Indentured Migration to Cuba after the Chinese Commission Report (1874–1920)0
Colonial-Imposed Slavery and African Abolitionism: The Early Twentieth- Century Lagos Elites’ Campaign Against the Native House Rule Ordinance0
Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation0
Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–18650
‘I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism0
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
Bombazelle’s Flight: Slavery, Gender, and Racial Identity in the Post-Removal United States South0
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
Enslavement and Female Agency in Early Modern Livorno0
Legal Consciousness, Gender, and the Manumission of Ana de los Ángeles, an Enslaved Woman in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City0
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
Old Age and American Slavery0
The Abolition of the Legal Status of Slavery on the Coast of Kenya: The Cases of Sadiki and Kiroboto0
‘Very Fond of Spirituous Liquors’: Alcohol and Fugitive Black Life in the Slaveholding South0
Historicising Ancient Slavery0
Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Colour in the South0
Anti-slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?0
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
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States0
After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi0
Bonded: Elite Marriage and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho0
Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital0
The Price of Freedom: Prostitution, Slavery, and Manumission in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro0
Beyond 1619: The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery0
Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania0
Slave Trade Insurance in the Age of Abolition: Archives, Politics, and Legalities0
‘I Request Charity and Justice’: The Lives of Enslaved and Free African Descent Peoples in New Spain’s North Frontier0
Fragile Empire: Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1645–17200
Britain’s Black Past0
‘Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country’: Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionist Writings on India and its Legacies0
Brokering Abolition by Land and Sea: Africans in the British Consulate and Navy in Zanzibar, c. 1860–19070
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery0
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations0
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps0
Convicts: A Global History0
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code0
Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative0
The Guyana Maroons, 1796–1834: Persistent and Resilient until the End of Slavery0
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
Recultivating Connections across the Indian Ocean0
Religion and Antislavery in Revolutionary France and Saint-Domingue0
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism0
Trade, Enslaved Workers and Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Mozambique0
Enslaved Women and Creoles in Guadalajara’s Slave Market, 1615–17350
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
The London Emancipation Society and Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Civil War Era, 1859–18650
The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery0
Black Rangers, Enslaved Mobilities, and the Black Geography of Early Nineteenth-Century Grenada0
Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World0
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory0
A Question of Freedom: The Families who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War0
The Same in All but Name? The Intersections of Marriage and Slavery in Sierra Leone, 1890–19300
Re-Producing the Meaning of the Geography of Enslavement: Henry Box Brown’s Subversive Geographical Resistance0
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation0
Underwriting and Investing in Slavery: The London Assurance Company in the Atlantic World0
‘Master Said He Was Over All the Magistrates’: Intimacy, Belonging, and Power Struggle within a Jamaican Houseful0
‘A Blessing of God’: Marriage and Amelioration in Early Nineteenth-Century Montserrat0
Recaptured Africans at the Cape Colony: Resistance and Freedom, 1823–18270
Resistance to Enslavement? Ransoming Discourses and Practices in the Sokoto Caliphate and Umarian States0
‘They Gave Me Nothing’: Marriage, Slavery and Divorce in Twentieth-Century Abeokuta0
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges0
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