Global Slavery Books

New and Published Books

1. Abolitionist Places

   Edited by Martha Schoolman, Jared Hickman

   From David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, some of the most influential conceptualizations of the Atlantic World have taken the movements of individuals and transnational organizations working to advocate the abolition of slavery as...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. Frances Trollope

   Beyond “Domestic Manners”

   Edited by Tamara Wagner

   Long overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances Trollope is almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans. Her impressively prolific career as a writer, however, covered and...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Maritime Slavery

   Edited by Philip Morgan

   Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage – the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic – readily comes to mind. This so-called ‘middle leg’ – from Africa to the Americas – of a supposed trading triangle linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge