Slavery and abolition of slavery

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.

Examines how black intermediaries in colonial Spanish America influenced written portrayals of virtuous and beautiful blackness.

Captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience.

Captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience.

A compelling account of Caribbean history from colonization to slavery and revolution, through the tumult of hurricanes and climate change.

A compelling account of Caribbean history from colonization to slavery and revolution, through the tumult of hurricanes and climate change.

Shows how black writers helped to build modern Britain by looking beyond the questions of slavery and abolition.

A history of colonial Africa and of the African diaspora examining the experiences and identities of ''liberated'' Africans in Sierra Leone.

Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley.

This book examines the domestic lives and leisure pursuits of planters in the antebellum American South.

Henry David Thoreau in Context will help readers of Thoreau better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

Henry David Thoreau in Context will help readers of Thoreau better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

This book examines the domestic lives and leisure pursuits of planters in the antebellum American South.

Shows how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of this period.

Shows how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of this period.

Explores the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church.

A new interpretation of Brazilian anti-slavery history, placing Brazil in the global network of nineteenth-century abolitionist activism.

A new interpretation of Brazilian anti-slavery history, placing Brazil in the global network of nineteenth-century abolitionist activism.

Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival.

Discusses human trafficking out of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet state, and labour migration into and within Russia.

Discusses human trafficking out of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet state, and labour migration into and within Russia.

Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.

Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.

Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.

Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil''s black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity.

Examines the creation of ''sporting plantations'' in the South Carolina lowcountry during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.

In this volume, leading scholars provide essay-length coverage of coerced labor, slave societies, and consequences of legal abolition around the globe.

In this volume, leading scholars provide essay-length coverage of coerced labor, slave societies, and consequences of legal abolition around the globe.

This book unfolds the story of the indenture system within the British Empire, with India as the ''mother country'' of coolies.

Brings the voices of Roman slaves in early comedy to the history of theater and the history of slavery.

An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony.

This book traces the lives of slaves before, during, and after the largest slave auction in US history in 1859.

This book traces the lives of slaves before, during, and after the largest slave auction in US history in 1859.

An innovative, interdisciplinary anthology arguing that we are unable to fully understand slavery - then and now - without attending to children''s roles in slavery''s machinations.

An innovative, interdisciplinary anthology arguing that we are unable to fully understand slavery - then and now - without attending to children''s roles in slavery''s machinations.

This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange.

This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange.

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This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines.

The first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the late sixteenth century to abolition in 1888.

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines.

The first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the late sixteenth century to abolition in 1888.

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery.

Justin Buckley Dyer provides the first book-length scholarly treatment of the parallels between slavery and abortion in American constitutional development.

This book demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honour among all classes of people on the island of Pemba.

This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century.