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An Analysis of David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
How was it possible for opponents of slavery to be so vocal in opposing the practice, when they were so accepting of the economic exploitation of workers in western factories – …
Slavery Evolution Cherokee Society
Remembering the Tatas: Domestic Women and Slavery in Tetouan (19th - 20th Centuries)
This book sheds light on the final process of slavery in Morocco, unraveling the contemporary roots of servility and stereotypes about blackness in the Arab world. Unlike other …
Creating Memorials, Building Identities
This book investigates memorials and monuments to slavery throughout the African diaspora, but with an emphasis on Europe. It analyses not only the increasing number of physical …
Islam and the Abolition of Slavery
In this important book, Clarence-Smith provides the first general survey of the Islamic debate on slavery. Sweeping away entrenched myths, he hopes to stimulate more research on …
Slavery and Reform in West Africa
A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region’s role in Atlantic …
German Entanglements in Transatlantic Slavery
Germany has long entertained the notion that the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery involved only other European players. Countering this premise, this collection …
Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom
An exploration of life on the Virgin Islands in a distinctive black community that gained its freedom from slavery more than 40 years prior to emancipation in 1848. Douglas …
Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia
This book - previously published as a special issue of the journal Slavery and Abolition - provides pioneering studies on the nature and structure of resistance to forms of bondage …