History in Focus

An illustration from an anti-slavery publication, showing a female slave in shackles. The verse by William Cowper (1731-1800) reads 'I would not have a slave to till my ground/To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,/And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth/That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd./We have no slaves at home - why then abroad?'

From Female Society for Birmingham, West-Bromwich . . . and Their Respective Neighborhoods, for the Relief of British Negro Slaves, The second report of the Female Society for Birmingham, West-Bromwich . . . and Their Respective Neighborhoods, . . . for the Relief of British Negro Slaves, established, 1825 (Birmingham, 1826).

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

Book reviews

The reviews below are taken from the Institute of Historical Research's online journal Reviews in History.

Brief Histories: The Caribbean

by Gad Heuman
Review by Henrice Altink

The Harem, Slavery and British Imperial Culture: Anglo-Muslim Relations in the Late-Nineteenth Century

by Diane Robinson-Dunne
Review by Sarah Ansari

The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade

by João Pedro Marques
Review by Manuel Barcia

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

by David B. Davis
Review by Douglas R. Egerton

A Concise History of Brazil

by Boris Fausto
Review by Colin M. Lewis

The Dutch Slave Trade 1500-1850

by Pieter C. Emmer
Review by J. Leslie Price

Questioning Slavery

by James Walvin
Review by Professor David Richardson

Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800

by Kenneth Morgan
Review by David Richardson

Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion

by Eva Sheppard Wolf
Review by Howard Temperley

Created Spring 2007 by the Institute of Historical Research.
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