Join Dr. Brooke Newman for a discussion of her new book, 'The Crown’s Silence,' a wide-ranging study of the British monarchy’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery.

Enslaved waterman Moses Grandy struggled to purchase his freedom in early nineteenth-century North Carolina. His skilled labour in a region knit together by rivers and canals positioned him to earn...

In 1795 Jamaican Maroons from the island’s Cockpit Country revolted against British colonial authority. The resulting conflict erupted into the large-scale Second Maroon War, in which British milit...

In 1795 Jamaican Maroons from the island’s Cockpit Country revolted against British colonial authority. The resulting conflict erupted into the large-scale Second Maroon War, in which British milit...

Join Dr. Brooke Newman for a discussion of her new book, 'The Crown’s Silence,' a wide-ranging study of the British monarchy’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery.

The endurance of the monarchy in the Caribbean is not simply a constitutional inheritance, but the product of deeper social and political structures formed during the colonial period

The city of Rio de Janeiro depended on water carriers for four hundred years, and the vast majority were enslaved. Water carriers allowed the city to be situated and to grow in a location without e...

The Afro-Brazilian poet, abolitionist and lawyer Luiz Gama, is one of Brazil’s most celebrated historical figures, not only because of his decades of activism in the struggle to bring an end to sla...

By Estherine Adams, Randy Browne, Juanita Cox, Philippa Hellawell, Linsey McMillan, Diana Paton and Kimberley Thomas. The authors are members of the

Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean

Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

YouTube video by Marsh Family

Examines the enslaved people who rose up in rebellion across Cornwall County in Jamaica, in what became the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean.

Examines the enslaved people who rose up in rebellion across Cornwall County in Jamaica, in what became the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean.

Taking a class analysis, he links the histories of capitalists and workers in Britain and the Caribbean, tracing the dynamics of profit-seeking & exploitation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Taking a class analysis, he links the histories of capitalists and workers in Britain and the Caribbean, tracing the dynamics of profit-seeking & exploitation on both sides of the Atlantic.

This article looks at General Horatio Gates’ relationship to slavery. Although born in England, Gates moved to Virgina in 1772, where he purchased a plantation and enslaved labourers. As a general ...

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

Join Dr Camillia Cowing, University of Warwick, to discuss how a new slave society was forged in Cuba’s nineteenth century through a bitter, transformational set of struggles.

Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present. Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling, and Esteban Salas. Volume 46, Issue 3 of Slavery & Abolition

Authors and peer reviewers are failing to disclose the use of LLMs despite journal policies limiting their use.

Recent studies have revised narratives about slavery and freedom in the aftermath of Indigenous Southerners’ dispossession in the United States during the nineteenth century. Black Indigenous peopl...