Slavery & Abolition

Papers
(The median citation count of Slavery & Abolition is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling and Chocolate13
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South11
Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean8
Racial Punishment from Slavery to Settler Colonialism: John Picton Beete in Demerara and Swan River4
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
Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation4
The Abolition of Slavery in the South American Republics4
From South Africa to the World: The Political and Legal Legacies of Chinese Indenture in the Transvaal4
Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–18503
Managing ‘Old Mammy’, Making ‘Mother Wit’: Older Enslaved Women, Efficiency, and Survival on the Plantation3
Slavery, Wealth and Britishness3
Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade3
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
The Origins and Destinations of Captives from the Bight of Biafra, 1807–1843: New Evidence from the Identification of African Names and Languages2
Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery2
Happiness in Havana? Día de Reyes as an Emotional Refuge in Colonial Cuba2
Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture2
Markets of Doubt: Islamic Law and the Omani Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean, c. 18702
The Samarra Mutiny of 256/8692
Workers, Wives and Radicals: Women and Abolitionism in the North-East of England, 1792–18652
Al-Ḥakam I in the Andalusi Sources: His Slaves, Eunuchs, and Concubines1
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction1
Indigenous Freedom Suits, Epistemological Mobilities, and the Deep Archive1
‘If They Regarded Mathematical Accuracy’: Problems of Exactness in the ‘Improved’ Versions of the Slave Ship Brooks1
‘She Refused to Be Left Behind’: The Sinews of Modern Day Trafficking in the Late Illegal US-Brazil Slave Trade, ca. 1860s–1880s1
‘New to Freedom but by no Means New to Faith’: Visions of an Abolitionist Black Catholic Church in Early Haiti (1808-1825)1
Response to Paul Lovejoy, ‘Where Was Gustavus Vassa, also Known as Olaudah Equiano, Born? Revisiting an Old Question.’ Slavery & Abolition 46:2 (20251
The Age of the Borderland: Indians, Slaves and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-18501
‘Refuge in the British Lines’: Refugees from Slavery and Sanctuary Status in New York City, 1782–17831
Trials of Enslavers in Former French Colonies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Testimonies of the Enslaved between Gratitude and Fear1
Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia1
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
Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital1
‘I Request Charity and Justice’: The Lives of Enslaved and Free African Descent Peoples in New Spain’s North Frontier1
The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade1
Muslims for and Against Slavery: Debates on the European Abolitionism Within the Muslim Elite of Saint-Louis, Senegal (1844)1
Coloniality and the Criminal Justice System: Empire and its Legacies in Guyana1
A Coromantee from Dahomey? On the Meaning of ‘Dorme’ in Jamaica and the West African Origins of Apongo, an Enslaved Rebel Leader1
Middle Passages: The Multiple Forced Migrations of Enslaved Africans1
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War1
Forum: Histories of Incarceration in Guyana1
Coercion and Consolidation: Military Campaigns and Begar (Forced Labour) in the Dogra State, 1846–19471
Old Age and American Slavery1
‘Her Work of Love’: Forced Separations, Maternal Grief, and Enslaved Mothers’ Emotional Practices in the Antebellum US South1
From ‘Political Captivity’ to ‘Economic Captivity’: Korean Peninsula Slaves in the Tang Dynasty China (618–907)1
For the Record: Muzio Costanzo, ‘Franciscus Etiopem’, and Paris Bordon’s Portrait of a Man in Armour with Two Pages1
The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1660–18071
Runaway Enslaved Families in Senegal: Mothers, Children, Resistance, and Vulnerabilities, 1857–19031
Arbitrating Abolition: Women’s Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 19071
Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 18651
African Voices Describe the Middle Passage1
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
‘The People of All Kinds Who Walk Along the Lines’: The Precarious Mobilities of Unfree Workers on Cuba's Early Railroads0
Catholic Antislavery: Epifanio Moirans’ Servi Liberi ( All Slaves Must be Freed , 1681), Lorenzo Da Silva Mendoza, and the Holy Office Dec0
Female Captive Mobilities and the ‘Countervoyage’ in the Luso-Atlantic World0
‘No Country, No People, Ever Pleased Me So Much’: Black Activists in Wales and Welsh Anti-Slavery Activism in the Nineteenth-Century0
The Price of Freedom: Prostitution, Slavery, and Manumission in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro0
Straddling the Worlds of Slavery and Abolition in the Hijaz from the 1850s-1910s0
Beyond 1619: The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery0
Bombazelle’s Flight: Slavery, Gender, and Racial Identity in the Post-Removal United States South0
Commodification and Unfreedom in Eighteenth-Century England: Debtors’ Prisons and the Royal Navy0
Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic0
Brokering Abolition by Land and Sea: Africans in the British Consulate and Navy in Zanzibar, c. 1860–19070
Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present0
Coercion and Enslavement in Motion: An Introduction0
Fragile Empire: Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1645–17200
Moses Grandy’s Pursuits of Freedom0
Household Servants and Slaves. A Visual History 1300–17000
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
Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation? Reformed Evangelism and Slavery in the Ante-Bellum American South0
‘Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country’: Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionist Writings on India and its Legacies0
African Narratives of Slavery and Abolition: Testimonies from the 19th Century0
‘The Science of Human Rights:’ American Abolitionism and the Language of Human Rights0
Caribbean Slavery, British Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution(s)?0
Haunting the Landscape: Fear and Empowerment in Slavery and its Aftermath in the U.S. South0
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement0
‘Concubines’, ‘Mistresses’, ‘Wives’: Questions of Intimacy, Violence, and Power in the British Atlantic and U.S. South0
Introduction: Historicizing the Abolition of Chinese Indentured Labour0
Recultivating Connections across the Indian Ocean0
Macao's Moral Maze: Sino-Portuguese Efforts Against the Early Modern Chinese Slave Trade0
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2021)0
‘As Many People with the Ships as can be Gotten’: Revisiting Enslavement and the Slave Trade on the Coromandel Coast0
Joaquim de Almeida: A história do africano traficado que se tornou traficante de africanos0
From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary0
An Abolitionist Vicious Circle: Slaving, Antislavery, and Violence on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika at the Onset of Colonial Occupation0
Televising Transnational Trauma: Visions and Versions of Slavery in the Americas0
Introduction0
Memory, Trauma and ‘Affective Autonomy’: Displaying Emotion and Trauma at the International Slavery Museum0
Making Marriages at the ‘End of Slavery’: Religion, Identity, and Law in the Early Colonial French Soudan0
Owners of Themselves? Tattooed Servants, Soldiers, and Sailors in the British Atlantic World0
In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History0
Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World: Texts and Contexts0
‘Thousands Now Unhappy’: Slave Petitions in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut0
Fleeing from the Caravan Trade: Porters’ Resistance in Central Angola During the Transition to Legitimate Commerce in the Mid- Nineteenth Century0
Enslaved Women and Creoles in Guadalajara’s Slave Market, 1615–17350
The Illicit Intimacies of Thomasin Brathwaite: Care and Survival in a Post-Emancipation Barbados Prison0
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
Resistance to Commodification – The Question of Naming0
Freedom, Faith & Sovereignty: The 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt as an Afro-Catholic Royalist Rebellion0
Enslavement and Female Agency in Early Modern Livorno0
Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World0
Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist0
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France0
Contested Pasts and Mythic History: Formerly Enslaved Women, Francis Pickens, and the Federal Writer’s Project0
Religion and Antislavery in Revolutionary France and Saint-Domingue0
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
‘Liberating’ Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: A Review of LiberatedAfricans.org0
Fragile Empire: Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1645–17200
Black Rangers, Enslaved Mobilities, and the Black Geography of Early Nineteenth-Century Grenada0
In Memoriam0
‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements0
The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the Bonds of Freedom0
Revisiting the Slave Ship Enterprise in Post-Emancipation Bermuda0
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom0
Freedom’s Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States0
Slave Trade Insurance in the Age of Abolition: Archives, Politics, and Legalities0
A Post-Emancipation Fiction of Black Imperial Masculinity: John Briggs’s The History of Jim Crow (1839)0
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century0
From a Chicken in Every Pot to a Time of Scarcity: Rethinking Slavery in the Crimean Khanate0
Enslavement between Worlds: Manuel Zapata’s Many Captive Mobilities0
Chinese Perspectives on Chinese Indentured Labourers during the First World War0
Self-Emancipation on the High Seas: The Creole Slave Mutiny of 1841 in Legal and Diplomatic Perspective0
Historians and the Public Memory of Slavery in Britain since 20070
The Morant War of Representation: Freedom and Whiteness in Jamaican Narratives of the Morant Bay Uprising0
Les Mondes de L’esclavage. Une Histoire Comparée0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom0
Debating Slavery After the Southampton Insurrection: A Crisis among North Carolina Slave Owners, 1831–18320
‘Horrible Enough to Stir a Man's Soul’: Enslaved Men, Emotions, and Heterosexual Intimacy in the Antebellum U.S. South0
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’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution0
Trade, Enslaved Workers and Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Mozambique0
Water Carriers and Water Infrastructure in a Slave City: Rio de Janeiro, 1565–18880
‘[A]s Fast as Ships Return he Will Send Every one a Boy’: Enslaved Children as Gifts in the British Atlantic0
The Boundaries of Freedom: Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil0
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
Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery0
Overseen and Overlooked: Spanish and British Silencing of Labor Resistance in Post-Emancipation Puerto Rico0
Horatio Gates and the Question of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era0
The Journeys of Eleven African Captives to the Mines of Antioquia, New Kingdom of Granada (1573-1589)0
Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery0
The Abolition of the Legal Status of Slavery on the Coast of Kenya: The Cases of Sadiki and Kiroboto0
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges0
Immigration, Intoxication, Insanity, and Incarceration in British Guiana0
British Metalware Exports and US Plantation Slavery during the Nineteenth Century0
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
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: 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
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War0
Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic0
Slavery in an Authoritarian Republic: The Policing of Dissent and the Rise of State Slavery in Paraguay (1821–1840)0
Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Colour in the South0
The Legal Infrastructure for the Enslavement of the Aucas of Chile in the Seventeenth Century0
Convicts: A Global History0
‘Master Said He Was Over All the Magistrates’: Intimacy, Belonging, and Power Struggle within a Jamaican Houseful0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery0
Exceptions to the Abolition of Chinese Indenture: Chinese workers on rubber estates in Interwar British Malaya0
Slavery, Sovereignty, and the Fante State: The Rise of a Ritual Confederacy in Eighteenth-Century Ghana0
Capitalism and Slavery Revitalized: Reflections on Berg and Hudson0
Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation0
The Re-enslavement of Guadeloupe: Criminal Courts in the Re-establishment of Slavery, 1802–18060
Captive Mobilities: Movement, Slavery, and Knowledge Production in the Iberian World0
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism0
Well Fed but ‘at the Same Time, Well Beaten’: Amelioration in the Seychelles0
The National Story of Racial Science and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America0
‘Enslavement, Emotions and Oppositional Insolence in the Slave Society of British Guiana’0
African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery0
The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–18880
Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World0
Re-Producing the Meaning of the Geography of Enslavement: Henry Box Brown’s Subversive Geographical Resistance0
Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South0
The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South0
Forty Years Enslaved: The Struggle for Freedom in the 1885 Lawsuit No. 2287, Barra Mansa, Brazil0
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War0
A ‘Liberal Solution’ to Slave Emancipation: State Institutions, Party Politics, and the Trials of Political Abolitionism in Mid-1880s Brazil0
Rev. Robert Robertson, Edmund Gibson and the Defence of Slavery0
‘A Blessing of God’: Marriage and Amelioration in Early Nineteenth-Century Montserrat0
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince0
Whose Emotions?0
Recaptured Africans at the Cape Colony: Resistance and Freedom, 1823–18270
Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean0
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory0
Every Step of the Way: Collective and Individual Resistance to Slavery in Sudan, ca. 1820–18500
The Overseer State: Slavery Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812–19160
Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Northern Encounters with Self-Emancipated Black Southerners in Fuelling the U.S. Civil War and Slavery’s Collapse0
The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery0
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States0
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World0
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
‘Mum Told Me All About Her Ancestors’: Milonga , Ancestry, and Women’s Legal Resistance to Slavery, Belgian Congo, 1908–19600
The Persistence of Indigenous Unfreedom in Early American Newspaper Advertisements, 1704–18040
Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative0
Natural Rights in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Religion and the Emergence of Antislavery in Enlightenment France0
Racist Regimes, Forced Labour and Death: British Slavery in the Caribbean and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe0
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition / The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–18600
Colonial-Imposed Slavery and African Abolitionism: The Early Twentieth- Century Lagos Elites’ Campaign Against the Native House Rule Ordinance0
The Body as Property and the Moral Limits of the Market: Attitudes towards the Sex Trade in Eighteenth-Century England0
Rejoinder to Carretta’s Response0
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
Britain’s Black Past0
Slavery Represented in Bactrian Documents0
Visions of an Ancient Ethiopian Church and the Africanization of Catholic History in José Antonio Aponte’s Afro-Cuban Codex0
The Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison, and Fear in the Antebellum Press0
I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America0
Queen Victoria’s ‘Liberated African’: Sarah ‘Sally’ Forbes Bonetta and Her Extraordinary Apprenticeship by the British Royal Family, 1850–18620
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations0
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation0
Slavery, Capitalism and the British Economy0
The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans0
Retaining Chinese Indentured Labour in Interwar British and French Pacific colonies0
‘A Very Thorny’ Question: Debates on Slavery between Capuchin Missionaries and the Roman Holy Office in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries0
Editor’s Note: A 40th Anniversary0
The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay0
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
‘Very Fond of Spirituous Liquors’: Alcohol and Fugitive Black Life in the Slaveholding South0
Indigenous Slavery in the Circum-Caribbean: The Miskitu’s Slave Trade and Its Consequences0
Navigating Discourses of Family, Freedom and Enslavement: Reconstructing the Early Life of Luiz Gama, an Afro-Brazilian Abolitionist0
‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–17910
‘Sterile Citizens’ & ‘Excellent Disbursers’: Opium and the Representations of Indentured Migrant Consumption in British Guiana and Trinidad0
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
Fear, Dependency and Complicity in Late Eighteenth-Century Grenada, 1784–17960
Illegally Sold: The Josefa Segunda and Its Captives in New Orleans, 1818–18320
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp0
The Guyana Maroons, 1796–1834: Persistent and Resilient until the End of Slavery0
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
A New System of Slavery at Age Fifty0
The Hazards of Love: Family Formation Against the Financial Environment of Slavery in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti0
Slavery on Display0
The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles Over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West Africa Port0
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
The Sound Engineers: The Inaudible Institution, Sonic Concealment and Enslaved Resistance in the Antebellum South0
Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–18650
Legal Consciousness, Gender, and the Manumission of Ana de los Ángeles, an Enslaved Woman in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City0
Introduction: Catholicism and Antislavery: Connecting Histories in the Atlantic World0
Indenture Beyond the ‘Coolie’ Trade: Reinitiating Chinese Indentured Migration to Cuba after the Chinese Commission Report (1874–1920)0
Underwriting and Investing in Slavery: The London Assurance Company in the Atlantic World0
The Matrix of Human Commodification in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World0
Flights of Opportunity: An Investigation of Runaway Assimilation and Employment Opportunity in the Cape Colony, 1830–18420
Anti-slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?0
Jacob D. Green and Britain’s Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist Network0
Duet with John Bull: The Black Abolitionist Mission to the British Isles During the American Civil War0
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean0
Rendered Useless: The Business of Slavery, a Sick African Girl, and the Law in Colonial Newport0
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 17560
The Performance and Appearance of Confidence Among the Enslavers of South Carolina and Cuba0
An Illegible Archive: Reading Omar ibn Said Against the Grain0
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