Slavery and abolition of slavery

The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures.

Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South After the constitutional end to slavery in the United States, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with systems of bound labor in which people worked to pay off debts or legal fines.

This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

A vivid examination of slave life in New Orleans in the early nineteenth century.

The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.

Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history.

In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S.

*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram HuntJosiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age.

In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the "e;Arkansas morass"e; in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves.

In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict in the history of the Americas.

This book explores formations of oceanic kinship in transnational American literature and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Exposes the historical roots of modern-day slavery, using lessons from the past to empower activism against such exploitation everywhere.

This book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery, providing the most comprehensive account of a pre-modern slave system currently available.

In the years between the American Revolution and the U.

Argues that freed slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of Roman values under the Principate.

The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "e;African"e; but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban.

Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution.

The purpose of Granville Sharpe's Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three important cases in the 18th century on the issue of slavery in England, and specifically the status of black people who were slaves in the American colonies or the West Indies and who were taken to England by their masters.

Wie können aktuelle Kontroversen in Zivilgesellschaft und Wissenschaft um das Thema „moderne Sklaverei“ historisch-soziologisch reflektiert und fundiert werden?

Examines the significance of the abolition of slavery in South Africa''s Cape Colony in 1834 and the subsequent development of race relations.

First published in 1909, W.

Focusing on U.

Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many.

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies; and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet - particularly the rise of the sugar economy.

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

Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "e;until death or distance do us part.

Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed.

Beginning with controversies related to British and French attacks on U.

This is the first and only biography of one of John Brown''s African American comrades, John Anthony Copeland.

Negotiating Abolition: The Antislavery Project in the British Straits Settlements, 1786-1843 explores how sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial anti-slavery policies in the region, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture or 'free' labor created a new illicit trade for women and girls to the Straits Settlements of Southeast Asia.

This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse adds new knowledge to the ongoing discussion of slavery in early Christian discourse.

Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition.

Explores the history of land dispossession, slavery, colonialism, and inequality in Angola, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves.

The period of the "e;second slavery"e; was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age.

Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery.

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

In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty.

This book explores how political debates and legal reforms on criminalization of racial violence have shaped American racial history.

This book examines political responses to the problem of human trafficking, including proposals, actions (legislative and executive), and statements made by politicians, government agencies, and civil society organizations to solve or mitigate the crime of human trafficking.

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.

When slavery was a routine part of life in America's South, a secret network of activists and escape routes enabled slaves to make their way to freedom in what is now Canada.

Forced Migration, first published in 1982, examines the impact of the slave trade on Africa.

Finding Charity's Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records.