Slavery & Abolition

Papers
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Racial Punishment from Slavery to Settler Colonialism: John Picton Beete in Demerara and Swan River8
Managing ‘Old Mammy’, Making ‘Mother Wit’: Older Enslaved Women, Efficiency, and Survival on the Plantation5
Setting Slavery's Limits: Physical Confrontations in Antebellum Virginia, 1801–18605
Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling and Chocolate5
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South4
From South Africa to the World: The Political and Legal Legacies of Chinese Indenture in the Transvaal4
Patchwork Freedoms: Law Slavery and Race Beyond Cuba’s Plantations Patchwork Freedoms: Law Slavery and Race Beyond Cuba’s Plantations , by Adriana Chira, Cambridge, Camb3
Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean , by David Alston, Edin3
The Abolition of Slavery in the South American Republics2
War, Fire, and Rebellion in Jamaica2
Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community2
Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade2
Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery2
The Origins and Destinations of Captives from the Bight of Biafra, 1807–1843: New Evidence from the Identification of African Names and Languages2
Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–18502
Introduction: Enslavement and the Slave Trade in Asia2
Slavery, Wealth and Britishness2
Middle Passages: The Multiple Forced Migrations of Enslaved Africans1
The Samarra Mutiny of 256/8691
African Voices Describe the Middle Passage1
Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 , by Steven J. Brady, Ithaca, NY, Cornell Unive1
In the True Blue’s Wake: Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation1
‘New to Freedom but by no Means New to Faith’: Visions of an Abolitionist Black Catholic Church in Early Haiti (1808-1825)1
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress1
Happiness in Havana? Día de Reyes as an Emotional Refuge in Colonial Cuba1
Trials of Enslavers in Former French Colonies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Testimonies of the Enslaved between Gratitude and Fear1
Coloniality and the Criminal Justice System: Empire and its Legacies in Guyana1
Unfreedom: Enslaving in New Jersey Through Gradual Abolition and Emancipation1
Al-Ḥakam I in the Andalusi Sources: His Slaves, Eunuchs, and Concubines1
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War1
Workers, Wives and Radicals: Women and Abolitionism in the North-East of England, 1792–18651
‘Refuge in the British Lines’: Refugees from Slavery and Sanctuary Status in New York City, 1782–17831
Forum: Histories of Incarceration in Guyana1
Borderless Empire: Dutch Guiana in the Atlantic World, 1750-18001
Free to Bury Their Dead: Baptism and the Meanings of Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean1
Re-Producing the Meaning of the Geography of Enslavement: Henry Box Brown’s Subversive Geographical Resistance0
How Much Do We Really Know About Somerset v. Stewart (1772)? The Missing Evidence of Contemporary Newspapers0
The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World0
Historicising Ancient Slavery0
Retaining Chinese Indentured Labour in Interwar British and French Pacific colonies0
The Hazards of Love: Family Formation Against the Financial Environment of Slavery in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti0
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 Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean0
‘Enslavement, Emotions and Oppositional Insolence in the Slave Society of British Guiana’0
Illegally Sold: The Josefa Segunda and Its Captives in New Orleans, 1818–18320
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation0
Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–18650
Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire0
‘Slavery Dies Hard’: A Radical Perspective on the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica0
The Overseers of Early American Slavery0
Contested Pasts and Mythic History: Formerly Enslaved Women, Francis Pickens, and the Federal Writer’s Project0
Capitalism and Slavery Revitalized: Reflections on Berg and Hudson0
African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery0
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition0
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
An Abolitionist Vicious Circle: Slaving, Antislavery, and Violence on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika at the Onset of Colonial Occupation0
‘An Extremely Mild Form of Slavery … of the Worst Sort’: American Perceptions of Slavery in the Sulu Sultanate, 1899–19040
Afflicted Slaves, Faithful Vassals: Sevícias, Manumission, and Enslaved Petitioners in Eighteenth-Century Brazil0
‘They Gave Me Nothing’: Marriage, Slavery and Divorce in Twentieth-Century Abeokuta0
The Journeys of Eleven African Captives to the Mines of Antioquia, New Kingdom of Granada (1573-1589)0
Maritime Marronage: Archaeological, Anthropological, and Historical Approaches0
The Same in All but Name? The Intersections of Marriage and Slavery in Sierra Leone, 1890–19300
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
Anti-slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?0
The Re-enslavement of Guadeloupe: Criminal Courts in the Re-establishment of Slavery, 1802–18060
A Haitian Revolutionary Manifesto? New Perspectives on the ‘Letter of Jean-François, Biassou, and Belair’0
Memory, Trauma and ‘Affective Autonomy’: Displaying Emotion and Trauma at the International Slavery Museum0
Black Rangers, Enslaved Mobilities, and the Black Geography of Early Nineteenth-Century Grenada0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom0
Bonded: Elite Marriage and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho0
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
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States0
Provision Grounds, Fruit, and Labour Conflicts in Jamaica, 1830s–1850s0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
Indigenous Freedom Suits, Epistemological Mobilities, and the Deep Archive0
Slavery, Fatherhood, Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long-Nineteenth Century0
The National Story of Racial Science and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America0
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2023)0
De la Nouvelle-Néerlande à New York : La naissance d’une société escalavagiste (1624–1712) [From New Netherland to New York: The Birth of a Slave Society, 1624–1712)0
For the Record: Muzio Costanzo, ‘Franciscus Etiopem’, and Paris Bordon’s Portrait of a Man in Armour with Two Pages0
Captive Wives or Conjugal Slaves? The Slavery-Marriage Nexus in Northern Uganda Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century0
‘Dere never wuz a war like dis war’: The WPA Narratives and the Emotional Echoes of the Civil War0
‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements0
Brokering Abolition by Land and Sea: Africans in the British Consulate and Navy in Zanzibar, c. 1860–19070
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America0
From ‘Political Captivity’ to ‘Economic Captivity’: Korean Peninsula Slaves in the Tang Dynasty China (618–907)0
Rendered Useless: The Business of Slavery, a Sick African Girl, and the Law in Colonial Newport0
Religion and Antislavery in Revolutionary France and Saint-Domingue0
Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Northern Encounters with Self-Emancipated Black Southerners in Fuelling the U.S. Civil War and Slavery’s Collapse0
‘The Science of Human Rights:’ American Abolitionism and the Language of Human Rights0
Female Captive Mobilities and the ‘Countervoyage’ in the Luso-Atlantic World0
Muslims for and Against Slavery: Debates on the European Abolitionism Within the Muslim Elite of Saint-Louis, Senegal (1844)0
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations0
Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles0
Queen Victoria’s ‘Liberated African’: Sarah ‘Sally’ Forbes Bonetta and Her Extraordinary Apprenticeship by the British Royal Family, 1850–18620
Household Servants and Slaves. A Visual History 1300–1700 Household Servants and Slaves. A Visual History 1300–1700 , by Diane Wolfthal, New Haven and London, Yale Unive0
Debating Slavery After the Southampton Insurrection: A Crisis among North Carolina Slave Owners, 1831–18320
Sick Minds, Unproductive Bodies: Nostalgia, Slavery, and Feeling in Late-Eighteenth-Century Cuba0
In Memoriam0
The Political Ideas of the Haitian Revolutionaries: A Forum0
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
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
Rumour, Royalty, Revolt: Mexico City’s 1612 Slave Conspiracy in the Atlantic Context0
On the Verge of War: Black Insurgency, the ‘Christie Affair’, and British Antislavery in Brazil0
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2021)0
Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania , by Beverley C. Tomek, Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 2021, Xiv, 129pp., $19.95 0
Jacob D. Green and Britain’s Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist Network0
Introduction0
A ‘Liberal Solution’ to Slave Emancipation: State Institutions, Party Politics, and the Trials of Political Abolitionism in Mid-1880s Brazil0
Liberators or Perpetrators? Co-Opting, Committing, and Condoning Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in the Early Belgian Congo0
American Slavery, American Imperialism: US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–19140
‘[A]s Fast as Ships Return he Will Send Every one a Boy’: Enslaved Children as Gifts in the British Atlantic0
‘A Very Thorny’ Question: Debates on Slavery between Capuchin Missionaries and the Roman Holy Office in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries0
‘Thousands Now Unhappy’: Slave Petitions in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut0
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Found0
‘I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism0
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 Ties That Bind: Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820–18650
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
Caribbean Slavery, British Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution(s)?0
A Sea of Caribbean Islands: Maritime Maroons in the Greater Caribbean0
Duet with John Bull: The Black Abolitionist Mission to the British Isles During the American Civil War0
In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History0
The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay0
Freedom, Faith & Sovereignty: The 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt as an Afro-Catholic Royalist Rebellion0
Revisiting the Slave Ship Enterprise in Post-Emancipation Bermuda0
A Slave at the Press: Peter Fleet and Reports of Slave Unrest in the Boston Evening-Post, 1735–17580
Fear, Dependency and Complicity in Late Eighteenth-Century Grenada, 1784–17960
Demanding Racial Equality: Free People of Color and the 1791 Concordats in Saint-Domingue0
A New System of Slavery at Age Fifty0
Legislating Liberty: Liberated Africans and the Abolition Act, 1806–18240
Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean0
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory0
Slavery and Marriage in African Societies0
Slavery in the Dutch Colonial Empire in Southeast Asia: Seventeenth-Century Amboina Reconsidered0
Chinese Perspectives on Chinese Indentured Labourers during the First World War0
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South0
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana, 1500-18600
The Guyana Maroons, 1796–1834: Persistent and Resilient until the End of Slavery0
The Morant War of Representation: Freedom and Whiteness in Jamaican Narratives of the Morant Bay Uprising0
A Narrative of Escape: Self Liberation by Sea and the Mental Worlds of the Enslaved0
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France0
From a Chicken in Every Pot to a Time of Scarcity: Rethinking Slavery in the Crimean Khanate0
Well Fed but ‘at the Same Time, Well Beaten’: Amelioration in the Seychelles0
Enslavement between Worlds: Manuel Zapata’s Many Captive Mobilities0
Introduction: Historicizing the Abolition of Chinese Indentured Labour0
Whose Emotions?0
Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital0
A Question of Freedom: The Families who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War0
Slavery Represented in Bactrian Documents0
The Haitians: A Decolonial History0
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges0
The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade0
African Indentured Labor in Senegal and Ste. Marie, Madagascar, 1817–18300
Visions of an Ancient Ethiopian Church and the Africanization of Catholic History in José Antonio Aponte’s Afro-Cuban Codex0
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century0
The Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison, and Fear in the Antebellum Press0
Les Mondes de L’esclavage. Une Histoire Comparée0
‘She Refused to Be Left Behind’: The Sinews of Modern Day Trafficking in the Late Illegal US-Brazil Slave Trade, ca. 1860s–1880s0
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom0
Slavery, Capitalism and the British Economy0
Macao's Moral Maze: Sino-Portuguese Efforts Against the Early Modern Chinese Slave Trade0
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War0
Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–18740
Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Colour in the South0
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2020)0
Finding George Freeman: a ‘Liberated African’ in Berkshire in the Age of Abolition0
Enslaveability, Slavery and Global Micro Histories: Reflections through the Case of Cali0
Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World: Texts and Contexts0
‘I was an Eye-witness’: John Newton, Anthony Benezet, and the Confession of a Liverpool Slave Trader0
Convicts: A Global History Convicts: A Global History , by Clare Anderson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, xv+476 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-84072-9(hardback)£74.990
The International Trafficking of Chinese Children and its Conflicting Legalities in Mid-Nineteenth Century Treaty-Port China0
Overseen and Overlooked: Spanish and British Silencing of Labor Resistance in Post-Emancipation Puerto Rico0
Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery0
Haunting the Landscape: Fear and Empowerment in Slavery and its Aftermath in the U.S. South0
Captive Mobilities: Movement, Slavery, and Knowledge Production in the Iberian World0
Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean: Sexual Exploitation, Freedom Struggles, and Black Atlantic Biography0
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana0
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps0
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
Catholic Antislavery: Epifanio Moirans’ Servi Liberi ( All Slaves Must be Freed , 1681), Lorenzo Da Silva Mendoza, and the Holy Office Dec0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery0
Editor’s Note: A 40th Anniversary0
Black Refugees and the Legal Fiction of Military Manumission in the American Revolution0
The Ambiguity of Freedom: Kinship and Motivations for Manumission in Eighteenth-Century Suriname0
Making Marriages at the ‘End of Slavery’: Religion, Identity, and Law in the Early Colonial French Soudan0
The London Emancipation Society and Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Civil War Era, 1859–18650
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code0
Recultivating Connections across the Indian Ocean0
The Persistence of Memory: Remembering Slavery in Liverpool, ‘slaving capital of the world’0
Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation0
The Persistence of Indigenous Unfreedom in Early American Newspaper Advertisements, 1704–18040
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London0
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
I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America0
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
Slavery on Display0
Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s History of Slavery0
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
Immigration, Intoxication, Insanity, and Incarceration in British Guiana0
‘Liberating’ Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: A Review of LiberatedAfricans.org0
Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South0
‘Sterile Citizens’ & ‘Excellent Disbursers’: Opium and the Representations of Indentured Migrant Consumption in British Guiana and Trinidad0
In the Wake of Maritime Marronage0
The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South0
Surrender to a Slave Society: Fighting the Illegal Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century Suriname0
‘The People of All Kinds Who Walk Along the Lines’: The Precarious Mobilities of Unfree Workers on Cuba's Early Railroads0
Exceptions to the Abolition of Chinese Indenture: Chinese workers on rubber estates in Interwar British Malaya0
Beyond 1619: The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery0
In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History0
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–18500
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World ,0
Old Age and American Slavery0
Enslaved Women and Creoles in Guadalajara’s Slave Market, 1615–17350
Flights of Opportunity: An Investigation of Runaway Assimilation and Employment Opportunity in the Cape Colony, 1830–18420
Natural Rights in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Religion and the Emergence of Antislavery in Enlightenment France0
A Global History of Slavery in the Medieval Millennium0
Coercion and Enslavement in Motion: An Introduction0
Slavery in an Authoritarian Republic: The Policing of Dissent and the Rise of State Slavery in Paraguay (1821–1840)0
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas0
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
‘Her Work of Love’: Forced Separations, Maternal Grief, and Enslaved Mothers’ Emotional Practices in the Antebellum US South0
‘A Blessing of God’: Marriage and Amelioration in Early Nineteenth-Century Montserrat0
The smell of slavery: olfactory racism and the Atlantic world0
‘Very Fond of Spirituous Liquors’: Alcohol and Fugitive Black Life in the Slaveholding South0
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
The Performance and Appearance of Confidence Among the Enslavers of South Carolina and Cuba0
‘I Request Charity and Justice’: The Lives of Enslaved and Free African Descent Peoples in New Spain’s North Frontier0
What ‘The Books … Would Tell’: Slavery, Freedom, and History in Slave Traders’ Archives0
Introduction: Catholicism and Antislavery: Connecting Histories in the Atlantic World0
The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond0
Exporting the Unfortunate: The European Slave Trade from India, 1500–18000
Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative0
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction0
Colonial-Imposed Slavery and African Abolitionism: The Early Twentieth- Century Lagos Elites’ Campaign Against the Native House Rule Ordinance0
‘Master Said He Was Over All the Magistrates’: Intimacy, Belonging, and Power Struggle within a Jamaican Houseful0
Enslavement for Manumission: The Creation of Byzantine ‘Private Subjects’0
‘Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country’: Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionist Writings on India and its Legacies0
The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade0
Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790-18480
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation0
‘Horrible Enough to Stir a Man's Soul’: Enslaved Men, Emotions, and Heterosexual Intimacy in the Antebellum U.S. South0
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement0
Indenture Beyond the ‘Coolie’ Trade: Reinitiating Chinese Indentured Migration to Cuba after the Chinese Commission Report (1874–1920)0
Land and the Plantation Order in Post-Abolition Saint-Domingue, 1795–18020
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
Britain’s Black Past0
Warfare, Bestowal, Purchase: Dutch Acquisition of Slaves in the World of Eastern Indonesia, 1650–18000
Slave Trade Insurance in the Age of Abolition: Archives, Politics, and Legalities0
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