Slavery & Abolition

Papers
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Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling and Chocolate11
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South7
Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean7
Patchwork Freedoms: Law Slavery and Race Beyond Cuba’s Plantations Patchwork Freedoms: Law Slavery and Race Beyond Cuba’s Plantations , by Adriana Chira, Cambridge, Camb5
From South Africa to the World: The Political and Legal Legacies of Chinese Indenture in the Transvaal4
Managing ‘Old Mammy’, Making ‘Mother Wit’: Older Enslaved Women, Efficiency, and Survival on the Plantation4
Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation3
The Abolition of Slavery in the South American Republics3
Slavery, Wealth and Britishness3
Racial Punishment from Slavery to Settler Colonialism: John Picton Beete in Demerara and Swan River3
Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade3
Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery2
Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community2
Happiness in Havana? Día de Reyes as an Emotional Refuge in Colonial Cuba2
Natural law philosophy and slavery in Cuba: the captives of schooner Nuestra Señora del Carmen (1795–1803)2
Markets of Doubt: Islamic Law and the Omani Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean, c. 18702
Workers, Wives and Radicals: Women and Abolitionism in the North-East of England, 1792–18652
Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–18502
Introduction: Enslavement and the Slave Trade in Asia2
The Samarra Mutiny of 256/8692
Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture1
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War1
In the True Blue’s Wake: Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation1
‘She Refused to Be Left Behind’: The Sinews of Modern Day Trafficking in the Late Illegal US-Brazil Slave Trade, ca. 1860s–1880s1
For the Record: Muzio Costanzo, ‘Franciscus Etiopem’, and Paris Bordon’s Portrait of a Man in Armour with Two Pages1
Muslims for and Against Slavery: Debates on the European Abolitionism Within the Muslim Elite of Saint-Louis, Senegal (1844)1
From ‘Political Captivity’ to ‘Economic Captivity’: Korean Peninsula Slaves in the Tang Dynasty China (618–907)1
A Coromantee from Dahomey? On the Meaning of ‘Dorme’ in Jamaica and the West African Origins of Apongo, an Enslaved Rebel Leader1
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
The Origins and Destinations of Captives from the Bight of Biafra, 1807–1843: New Evidence from the Identification of African Names and Languages1
Runaway Enslaved Families in Senegal: Mothers, Children, Resistance, and Vulnerabilities, 1857–19031
‘If They Regarded Mathematical Accuracy’: Problems of Exactness in the ‘Improved’ Versions of the Slave Ship Brooks1
Forum: Histories of Incarceration in Guyana1
The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade1
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction1
‘Refuge in the British Lines’: Refugees from Slavery and Sanctuary Status in New York City, 1782–17831
Response to Paul Lovejoy, ‘Where Was Gustavus Vassa, also Known as Olaudah Equiano, Born? Revisiting an Old Question.’ Slavery & Abolition 46:2 (20251
Arbitrating Abolition: Women’s Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 19071
Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia1
Coloniality and the Criminal Justice System: Empire and its Legacies in Guyana1
Finding George Freeman: a ‘Liberated African’ in Berkshire in the Age of Abolition1
‘I Request Charity and Justice’: The Lives of Enslaved and Free African Descent Peoples in New Spain’s North Frontier1
‘Her Work of Love’: Forced Separations, Maternal Grief, and Enslaved Mothers’ Emotional Practices in the Antebellum US South1
‘New to Freedom but by no Means New to Faith’: Visions of an Abolitionist Black Catholic Church in Early Haiti (1808-1825)1
Unfreedom: Enslaving in New Jersey Through Gradual Abolition and Emancipation1
Al-Ḥakam I in the Andalusi Sources: His Slaves, Eunuchs, and Concubines1
Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 18651
Middle Passages: The Multiple Forced Migrations of Enslaved Africans1
Recaptured Africans at the Cape Colony: Resistance and Freedom, 1823–18270
Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Colour in the South0
‘The People of All Kinds Who Walk Along the Lines’: The Precarious Mobilities of Unfree Workers on Cuba's Early Railroads0
Commodification and Unfreedom in Eighteenth-Century England: Debtors’ Prisons and the Royal Navy0
Les Mondes de L’esclavage. Une Histoire Comparée0
Provision Grounds, Fruit, and Labour Conflicts in Jamaica, 1830s–1850s0
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations0
Re-Producing the Meaning of the Geography of Enslavement: Henry Box Brown’s Subversive Geographical Resistance0
The Persistence of Indigenous Unfreedom in Early American Newspaper Advertisements, 1704–18040
Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic0
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
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery0
Indigenous Slavery in the Circum-Caribbean: The Miskitu’s Slave Trade and Its Consequences0
‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–17910
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 17560
The Illicit Intimacies of Thomasin Brathwaite: Care and Survival in a Post-Emancipation Barbados Prison0
The Price of Freedom: Prostitution, Slavery, and Manumission in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro0
The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans0
The Guyana Maroons, 1796–1834: Persistent and Resilient until the End of Slavery0
Trade, Enslaved Workers and Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Mozambique0
Televising Transnational Trauma: Visions and Versions of Slavery in the Americas0
‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp0
Freedom’s Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States0
African Indentured Labor in Senegal and Ste. Marie, Madagascar, 1817–18300
Owners of Themselves? Tattooed Servants, Soldiers, and Sailors in the British Atlantic World0
Recultivating Connections across the Indian Ocean0
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2021)0
Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World0
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
Editor’s Note: A 40th Anniversary0
The Legal Infrastructure for the Enslavement of the Aucas of Chile in the Seventeenth Century0
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
Enslavement and Female Agency in Early Modern Livorno0
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps0
Rev. Robert Robertson, Edmund Gibson and the Defence of Slavery0
Rendered Useless: The Business of Slavery, a Sick African Girl, and the Law in Colonial Newport0
A New System of Slavery at Age Fifty0
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
Self-Emancipation on the High Seas: The Creole Slave Mutiny of 1841 in Legal and Diplomatic Perspective0
‘Thousands Now Unhappy’: Slave Petitions in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut0
I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America0
Introduction0
Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–18650
Colonial-Imposed Slavery and African Abolitionism: The Early Twentieth- Century Lagos Elites’ Campaign Against the Native House Rule Ordinance0
Anti-slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?0
Slavery on Display0
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges0
Captive Mobilities: Movement, Slavery, and Knowledge Production in the Iberian World0
The International Trafficking of Chinese Children and its Conflicting Legalities in Mid-Nineteenth Century Treaty-Port China0
Straddling the Worlds of Slavery and Abolition in the Hijaz from the 1850s-1910s0
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince0
Female Captive Mobilities and the ‘Countervoyage’ in the Luso-Atlantic World0
The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles Over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West Africa Port0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom0
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
Bombazelle’s Flight: Slavery, Gender, and Racial Identity in the Post-Removal United States South0
Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery0
Chinese Perspectives on Chinese Indentured Labourers during the First World War0
Horatio Gates and the Question of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era0
Water Carriers and Water Infrastructure in a Slave City: Rio de Janeiro, 1565–18880
From a Chicken in Every Pot to a Time of Scarcity: Rethinking Slavery in the Crimean Khanate0
Catholic Antislavery: Epifanio Moirans’ Servi Liberi ( All Slaves Must be Freed , 1681), Lorenzo Da Silva Mendoza, and the Holy Office Dec0
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War0
Overseen and Overlooked: Spanish and British Silencing of Labor Resistance in Post-Emancipation Puerto Rico0
Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital0
Beyond 1619: The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present0
‘The Science of Human Rights:’ American Abolitionism and the Language of Human Rights0
Fragile Empire: Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1645–17200
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code0
Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution0
Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative0
Queen Victoria’s ‘Liberated African’: Sarah ‘Sally’ Forbes Bonetta and Her Extraordinary Apprenticeship by the British Royal Family, 1850–18620
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement0
‘A Very Thorny’ Question: Debates on Slavery between Capuchin Missionaries and the Roman Holy Office in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries0
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
Rejoinder to Carretta’s Response0
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century0
Fleeing from the Caravan Trade: Porters’ Resistance in Central Angola During the Transition to Legitimate Commerce in the Mid- Nineteenth Century0
British Metalware Exports and US Plantation Slavery during the Nineteenth Century0
Exceptions to the Abolition of Chinese Indenture: Chinese workers on rubber estates in Interwar British Malaya0
Household Servants and Slaves. A Visual History 1300–17000
Introduction: Catholicism and Antislavery: Connecting Histories in the Atlantic World0
Debating Slavery After the Southampton Insurrection: A Crisis among North Carolina Slave Owners, 1831–18320
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
Enslaved Women and Creoles in Guadalajara’s Slave Market, 1615–17350
Breakers and Bloodhounds: Environmental Knowledge of Water and Dogs in the Second Maroon War in Jamaica, 1795–17960
The Abolition of the Legal Status of Slavery on the Coast of Kenya: The Cases of Sadiki and Kiroboto0
Britain’s Black Past0
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
Making Marriages at the ‘End of Slavery’: Religion, Identity, and Law in the Early Colonial French Soudan0
The Matrix of Human Commodification in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World0
The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay0
Legal Consciousness, Gender, and the Manumission of Ana de los Ángeles, an Enslaved Woman in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City0
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
Navigating Discourses of Family, Freedom and Enslavement: Reconstructing the Early Life of Luiz Gama, an Afro-Brazilian Abolitionist0
‘Liberating’ Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: A Review of LiberatedAfricans.org0
Haunting the Landscape: Fear and Empowerment in Slavery and its Aftermath in the U.S. 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
Duet with John Bull: The Black Abolitionist Mission to the British Isles During the American Civil War0
‘An Extremely Mild Form of Slavery … of the Worst Sort’: American Perceptions of Slavery in the Sulu Sultanate, 1899–19040
‘Master Said He Was Over All the Magistrates’: Intimacy, Belonging, and Power Struggle within a Jamaican Houseful0
Retaining Chinese Indentured Labour in Interwar British and French Pacific colonies0
Revisiting the Slave Ship Enterprise in Post-Emancipation Bermuda0
Joaquim de Almeida: A história do africano traficado que se tornou traficante de africanos0
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom0
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
Visions of an Ancient Ethiopian Church and the Africanization of Catholic History in José Antonio Aponte’s Afro-Cuban Codex0
Slavery in the Dutch Colonial Empire in Southeast Asia: Seventeenth-Century Amboina Reconsidered0
The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–18880
The London Emancipation Society and Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Civil War Era, 1859–18650
Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean0
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France0
Enslaveability, Slavery and Global Micro Histories: Reflections through the Case of Cali0
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation0
Fear, Dependency and Complicity in Late Eighteenth-Century Grenada, 1784–17960
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
Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World: Texts and Contexts0
‘Mum Told Me All About Her Ancestors’: Milonga , Ancestry, and Women’s Legal Resistance to Slavery, Belgian Congo, 1908–19600
Black Rangers, Enslaved Mobilities, and the Black Geography of Early Nineteenth-Century Grenada0
Every Step of the Way: Collective and Individual Resistance to Slavery in Sudan, ca. 1820–18500
Freedom, Faith & Sovereignty: The 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt as an Afro-Catholic Royalist Rebellion0
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–18500
‘Horrible Enough to Stir a Man's Soul’: Enslaved Men, Emotions, and Heterosexual Intimacy in the Antebellum U.S. South0
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory0
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America0
Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation? Reformed Evangelism and Slavery in the Ante-Bellum American 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
Old Age and American Slavery0
Enslavement between Worlds: Manuel Zapata’s Many Captive Mobilities0
Jacob D. Green and Britain’s Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist Network0
The Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison, and Fear in the Antebellum Press0
The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1660–18070
The Morant War of Representation: Freedom and Whiteness in Jamaican Narratives of the Morant Bay Uprising0
A Global History of Slavery in the Medieval Millennium0
The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond0
A Post-Emancipation Fiction of Black Imperial Masculinity: John Briggs’s The History of Jim Crow (1839)0
The Boundaries of Freedom: Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil0
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean0
The Body as Property and the Moral Limits of the Market: Attitudes towards the Sex Trade in Eighteenth-Century England0
The Performance and Appearance of Confidence Among the Enslavers of South Carolina and Cuba0
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War0
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
Memory, Trauma and ‘Affective Autonomy’: Displaying Emotion and Trauma at the International Slavery Museum0
‘Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country’: Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionist Writings on India and its Legacies0
Convicts: A Global History0
Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Northern Encounters with Self-Emancipated Black Southerners in Fuelling the U.S. Civil War and Slavery’s Collapse0
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism0
‘A Blessing of God’: Marriage and Amelioration in Early Nineteenth-Century Montserrat0
Slavery in an Authoritarian Republic: The Policing of Dissent and the Rise of State Slavery in Paraguay (1821–1840)0
In Memoriam0
The Re-enslavement of Guadeloupe: Criminal Courts in the Re-establishment of Slavery, 1802–18060
Racist Regimes, Forced Labour and Death: British Slavery in the Caribbean and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe0
Slavery, Sovereignty, and the Fante State: The Rise of a Ritual Confederacy in Eighteenth-Century Ghana0
Well Fed but ‘at the Same Time, Well Beaten’: Amelioration in the Seychelles0
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
Slavery, Capitalism and the British Economy0
‘[A]s Fast as Ships Return he Will Send Every one a Boy’: Enslaved Children as Gifts in the British Atlantic0
Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World0
Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery0
Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist0
From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary0
Contested Pasts and Mythic History: Formerly Enslaved Women, Francis Pickens, and the Federal Writer’s Project0
‘Very Fond of Spirituous Liquors’: Alcohol and Fugitive Black Life in the Slaveholding South0
Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic0
Underwriting and Investing in Slavery: The London Assurance Company in the Atlantic World0
Fragile Empire: Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1645–17200
Capitalism and Slavery Revitalized: Reflections on Berg and Hudson0
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2023)0
The Overseer State: Slavery Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812–19160
Illegally Sold: The Josefa Segunda and Its Captives in New Orleans, 1818–18320
Caribbean Slavery, British Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution(s)?0
The Journeys of Eleven African Captives to the Mines of Antioquia, New Kingdom of Granada (1573-1589)0
The National Story of Racial Science and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America0
Transnational Digital Resistance? Collective On- and Offline Anti-Slavery Mobilisations by the Soninke Movement Ganbanaaxun Fedde in Mali, Mauritania and the Diaspora, 2016–20240
The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South0
An Abolitionist Vicious Circle: Slaving, Antislavery, and Violence on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika at the Onset of Colonial Occupation0
Resistance to Enslavement? Ransoming Discourses and Practices in the Sokoto Caliphate and Umarian States0
African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery0
Immigration, Intoxication, Insanity, and Incarceration in British Guiana0
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition / The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–18600
Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South0
Slave Trade Insurance in the Age of Abolition: Archives, Politics, and Legalities0
‘Sterile Citizens’ & ‘Excellent Disbursers’: Opium and the Representations of Indentured Migrant Consumption in British Guiana and Trinidad0
The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery0
Indenture Beyond the ‘Coolie’ Trade: Reinitiating Chinese Indentured Migration to Cuba after the Chinese Commission Report (1874–1920)0
Coercion and Enslavement in Motion: An Introduction0
Flights of Opportunity: An Investigation of Runaway Assimilation and Employment Opportunity in the Cape Colony, 1830–18420
Whose Emotions?0
Introduction: Historicizing the Abolition of Chinese Indentured Labour0
Natural Rights in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Religion and the Emergence of Antislavery in Enlightenment France0
The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery0
Slavery Represented in Bactrian Documents0
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World0
Religion and Antislavery in Revolutionary France and Saint-Domingue0
Brokering Abolition by Land and Sea: Africans in the British Consulate and Navy in Zanzibar, c. 1860–19070
Indigenous Freedom Suits, Epistemological Mobilities, and the Deep Archive0
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States0
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