History in Focus

Atlantic Ocean with bordering continental areas, 1680.

Moses Pitt, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica (Oxford, 1680). (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University).

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record, Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr.

Articles

Slavery

History in Focus invited eight academics to write short pieces on various aspects of slavery, the slave trade and its abolition from their own research perspectives. The resulting articles cover a broad range of issues, including resistance among slaves, runaway slave communities, proslavery arguments in the British West Indies, aspects of abolishing the slave trade including the economic consequences, and memories of slavery in Africa. We hope they will be of interest to historians and students of slavery and its consequences which still resonate today.

Articles index

• Britain, slavery and the trade in enslaved Africans

  by Marika Sherwood

• Enslaved women and slavery before and after 1807

  by Diana Paton

• British links and the West Indian proslavery argument

  by Christer Petley

• Reading the rebels: currents of slave resistance in the eighteenth-century British West Indies

  by Natalie Zacek

• Runaway slave communities in South Carolina

  by Tim Lockley

• Abolishing the slave trade

  by James Walvin

• The Big Disappointment. The economic consequences of the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, 1833-1888

  by Pieter C. Emmer

• Political uses of memories of slavery in the Republic of Benin

  Ana Lucia Araujo

• How could we do without sugar and rum?

  Graham Ullathorne

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Created Spring 2007 by the Institute of Historical Research.
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