»Eine unterhaltsame, informative und zugleich erschreckende Globalgeschichte eines wichtigen Stof...

An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . ....

James Walvin plots the story of black slavery and traces the intellectual and historical argument...

For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent o...

When Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described him as an Englishman, yet he had only spent...

The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a prominent African in late 18th-century Britain, is quoted...

The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. En...

The British role in the shaping of the African diaspora was central: the British carried more Afr...

When the Reverend Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described him as an Englishman. Yet he h...

Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia, today’s Iraq, where a male slave was worth...

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-...

We all know the story of the slave trade--the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions ...