Research
Browse a list of PhD theses about the history of slavery and the list of university teachers who teach this topic. Completed theses are available from the University library of the institution where the thesis was submitted.
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Theses
An analysis of slave abolitionists in the north-west of England
Brian Howman
Supervised by: Professor Gad J. Heuman and Dr. Sarah Richardson
Warwick Ph.D. Awarded 2006
Place, identity and memory: a study of American ante-bellum autobiographical slave narratives, and Holocaust survivor accounts by Jews living in Bialystok, Poland, after 1918 and up to 1943
Margaret Marlow
Supervised by: Professor A.R.J. (Tony) Kushner and Dr. John R. Oldfield
Southampton Ph.D. Awarded 2006
Domination and slave resistance on Cuban plantations, 1808-48
Manuel Barcia-Paz
Supervised by: Dr. Matthias Röhrig Assunção
Essex Ph.D. Awarded 2005
Sold! Slaves in advertising during the age of segregation
Marion Gibrill
Supervised by: Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin
Essex M.A. Awarded 2005
The ideology of slavery: a comparative study of slavery in the military of the Byzantine and 'Abbasid empires in the 9th-century
Robina Nawaz
Birmingham M.Phil. Awarded 2005
The development of slave laws in Louisiana, 1724-1834
Maxine A. Clarke
Cambridge Ph.D. Awarded 2004
Legacies of slavery: presenting the history of American slavery in the plantations and historic homes of the southern United States
Fiona J.L. Handley
London Ph.D. Awarded 2004
Slavery in ancient Greek poleis and ancient Sri Lanka: a comparison
Chandina S.M. Wickramasinghe
Nottingham Ph.D. Awarded 2004
Destroying the Upas tree: the role of Scottish churches and people in the abolition of black slavery, 1756-1838
Iain A. Whyte
Edinburgh Ph.D. Awarded 2004
Slave societies in Jamaica and Surinam
Henrice Altink
Supervised by: Professor David Richardson
Hull Ph.D. Awarded 2002
Black slave drivers in the antebellum South
Joanne Berry
Supervised by: Dr. Steven J. Sarson
Wales Ph.D. Awarded 2002
West Indian slave revolts and the British discourse on slave emancipation, c.1790-1833
Gelien Matthews
Supervised by: Professor David Richardson and Professor David Eltis
Hull Ph.D. Awarded 2002
The geographies of global humanitarianism: the Anti-Slavery Society and the Aborigines Protection Society, 1884-1933
Roderick E. Mitcham
Supervised by: Professor Felix F. Driver
London Ph.D. Awarded 2002
Slavery in the marginal colonies of the British West Indies
Roy Murray
Supervised by: Dr. Francis J.D. Lambert and Dr. Michael J. French
Glasgow Ph.D. Awarded 2002
Women slaveholders in the Georgia and South Carolina low country, 1750-75.
Ingeborg R. Dornan
Cambridge Ph.D. Awarded 2001
The logical outcome of the non-slaveholders' philosophy? Hinton Rowan Helper on race and class in the antebellum South
David Brown
Supervised by: Mr. Louis Billington
Hull Ph.D. Awarded 2000
That most perfidious institution: the slow death of slavery in the 19th-century
Trevor R. Getz
Supervised by: Professor Richard J.A.R. Rathbone
London Ph.D. Awarded 2000
Scottish women and the American anti-slavery movement
Patricia A. Rinker
Supervised by: Dr. William W. Knox
St. Andrews Ph.D. Awarded 2000
White women, slavery and racism: images of the British Caribbean in women's published writing, 1770-1845
Joanne Liddy
Supervised by: Dr. Michael Tadman
Liverpool Ph.D. Awarded 1999
Slave women and work in the American South
Liese Perrin
Supervised by: Dr. Andrew G. Miles and Dr. M.M. Smith
Birmingham Ph.D. Awarded 1999
Charles Stuart and the transatlantic anti-slavery connection.
David A. Van Dyke
Edinburgh Ph.D. 1998
Teachers
Henrice Altink
Research interests: Slavery & emancipation; Caribbean social & gender history 1838-1938
York (Dept. of History)
John Ashworth
Research interests: Coming of U.S. Civil War; slavery debate
Nottingham (School of American & Canadian Studies)
Martin S. Crawford
Research interests: Britain & the slave south; Potteries emigration to the U.S.
Keele (Dept. of American Studies)
Madge J. Dresser
Research interests: Social history of English religion 1750-1830; slavery & popular memory
West of England, Bristol (School of History)
Richard Follett
Research interests: Slavery in Louisiana; the history, economy & mechanisation of the sugar industry
Sussex (School of History)
Rebecca Fraser
Research interests: Gender & sexuality in the antebellum South; the cultural world of the enslaved
East Anglia (Dept. of History)
Richard J. Geary
Research interests: Unemployment in inter-war Europe; comparative history of slavery
Nottingham (School of History & Art History)
Douglas J. Hamilton
Research interests: 18th c. Atlantic world; slavery; British empire
Hull (Dept. of History)
Sheryllynne Haggerty
Research interests: 18th c. British Atlantic trade & networks; slave trade; 18th c. towns
Nottingham (School of History)
Gad J. Heuman
Research interests: Slavery & freedom in Caribbean
Warwick (Dept. of History)
Brian Kelly
Research interests: Directs the AHRC-funded After Slavery Project (www.afterslavery.com); American Civil War and Reconstruction, with a special interest in emancipation in the Carolinas
Queen's University Belfast (Dept. of History)
Jeremy M. Krikler
Research interests: Race & class; agrarian history; labour movements; the world of the slave trade
Essex (Dept. of History)
Robin C.C. Law
Research interests: Social history of Ouidah (Benin); English Royal African Company; Atlantic slave trade
Stirling (Dept. of History)
Robert M. Lewis
Research interests: Louisiana; slavery; recreation
Birmingham (School of Historical Studies)
Tim Lockley
Research interests: Slavery, race, gender & reform in the colonial and antebellum South
Warwick (Dept. of History)
Keith Mason
Research interests: Loyalism; U.S. constitution; slavery
Liverpool (School of History)
Kenneth J. Morgan
Research interests: British overseas trade & expansion 1650-1850; slavery in the British Caribbean; early American history
Brunel University (Dept. of American Studies & History)
John R. Oldfield
Research interests: Slavery & abolition in the Atlantic world; black-white relations in the U.S. in the 19th & 20th c.
Southampton (Dept. of History)
Diana Paton
Research interests: Comparative slavery; slave emancipation; 18th-19th c. Anglophone Caribbean; gender
Newcastle upon Tyne (School of Historical Studies)
Christer Petley
Research interests: White society in Jamaica; slavery & abolition in the Americas; British colonialism
Leeds Metropolitan (School of Cultural Studies)
David Richardson
Research interests: Transatlantic slavery, incl. Africa
Hull (Dept. of History)
Matthias Röhrig Assunçao
Research interests: Slavery & post-emancipation in Brazil & the Caribbean; Afro-American culture, esp. martial arts & capoeira
Essex (Dept. of History)
Ulrike Roth
Research interests: Roman republican history; ancient slavery; gender in history
Edinburgh (Dept. of Classics)
Anita Rupprecht
Research interests: History of slavery
Brighton (School of Historical & Critical Studies)
Suzanne Schwarz
Research interests: N.W. social & economic history; slave trade
Liverpool Hope (Dept. of History)
Michael Tadman
Research interests: Slavery in America
Liverpool (School of History)
Howard R. Temperley
Research interests: Early 19th c. America; slavery & anti-slavery
East Anglia (School of English & American Studies)
David M. Turley
Research interests: Slavery & the consequences of emancipation; African-American intellectuals
Kent at Canterbury (School of History)
Megan A. Vaughan
Research interests: Mauritius in 18th c.: creation of colonial society & history of slavery; Malawi & Zambia recent history
Cambridge (King's College)
Emily R. West
Research interests: Slavery & the antebellum South
Reading (School of History)
David R. Wyatt
Research interests: Slavery in medieval Britain & Ireland
Cardiff (School of History & Archaeology)