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‘Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country’: Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionist Writings on India and its Legacies Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Yue Qiu
This article examines nineteenth century American abolitionist writings on India. My sources include abolitionist newspapers, primarily focusing on William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper the Liberator,...
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Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Peter Hunt
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Jeremy D. Popkin
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Erik Mathisen
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic World Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Kalle Kananoja
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Exceptions to the Abolition of Chinese Indenture: Chinese workers on rubber estates in Interwar British Malaya Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Claire Lowrie
In a 1931 report investigating the status of labourers in British colonies, the Colonial Office declared that the system of indenture had been abolished across Malaya. This claim belied the realiti...
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Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Bill L. Smith
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Shipping, 1680-1807 Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Matthew David Mitchell
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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In Memoriam Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Gad Heuman Editor, Slavery & Abolition
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered: William Johnson and Black Masculinity in the Antebellum South Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Aisha Djelid
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Erin Shearer
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2023) Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Indigenous Slavery in the Circum-Caribbean: The Miskitu’s Slave Trade and Its Consequences Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Samantha R. Billing
This article details a trade in Indigenous slaves that was controlled by the Miskitu, a group indigenous to the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and Honduras. During the eighteenth century, the Miskitu...
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Finding George Freeman: a ‘Liberated African’ in Berkshire in the Age of Abolition Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Graham Moore
This article comprises a biography of George Freeman, an African boy ‘liberated’ from enslavement in West Africa and relocated to the countryside of Berkshire, UK. The article contributes to schola...
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Queen Victoria’s ‘Liberated African’: Sarah ‘Sally’ Forbes Bonetta and Her Extraordinary Apprenticeship by the British Royal Family, 1850–1862 Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Henry B. Lovejoy
In 1848, Dahomey’s army enslaved a five-year-old Yoruba girl, named Aina, whose fate on the surface was unusual. She was given as a ‘gift’ to a British diplomat who presented her to Queen Victoria ...
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A New System of Slavery at Age Fifty Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Richard B. Allen
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Muslims for and Against Slavery: Debates on the European Abolitionism Within the Muslim Elite of Saint-Louis, Senegal (1844) Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Thiago H. Mota
This article explores the efforts of an inquiry in Saint-Louis, Senegal to abolish slavery in the nascent French colony between 1842 and 1844. It discusses the perspectives of a professional Muslim...
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‘Master Said He Was Over All the Magistrates’: Intimacy, Belonging, and Power Struggle within a Jamaican Houseful Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Michael Becker
This article examines the struggle of an enslaved mother, Catherine Whitfield, and adult daughter, Ann King, to seek legal redress for their abuse while working as domestic servants to a leading Ja...
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Provision Grounds, Fruit, and Labour Conflicts in Jamaica, 1830s–1850s Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Leah Slocum
This article contributes to the scholarly literature on the rent controversy and labour shortages in Jamaica and the moral panic over idleness that attended the ‘Quashee’ stereotype, which prolifer...
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Middle Passages: The Multiple Forced Migrations of Enslaved Africans Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Rachael L. Pasierowska
This article proposes a linguistic shift for scholars of trans-Atlantic slavery regarding the quintessential term ‘the Middle Passage' to the plural ‘Middle Passages'. As a singular noun, ‘the Midd...
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Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Graham Kerr
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2024)
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Who’s Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 George E. Boulukos
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2024)
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The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime and Clemency in Early Virginia; Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Will Comben
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2024)
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The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth Century United States Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Catherine Armstrong
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2024)
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Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Miles Ogborn
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2024)
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Patchwork Freedoms: Law Slavery and Race Beyond Cuba’s Plantations Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Miguel Valerio
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2024)
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Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Chris J. Gismondi
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2024)
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‘Liberating’ Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: A Review of LiberatedAfricans.org Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Anita Rupprecht
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Colonial-Imposed Slavery and African Abolitionism: The Early Twentieth- Century Lagos Elites’ Campaign Against the Native House Rule Ordinance Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Michael Ehis Odijie, Uzoamaka Nwachukwu
This article examines the efforts of early-twentieth-century abolitionists in Lagos, Nigeria who campaigned against the Native House Rule Ordinance/Proclamation, a colonial law perceived as perpetu...
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The Origins and Destinations of Captives from the Bight of Biafra, 1807–1843: New Evidence from the Identification of African Names and Languages Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 David Eltis, Philip Misevich, G. Ugo Nwokeji, Adenike Ogunkoya
Between 1807 and 1843, British naval officers liberated more than thirty thousand Africans from slave vessels that embarked enslaved people along the Bight of Biafra. Large ledger books display the...
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An Abolitionist Vicious Circle: Slaving, Antislavery, and Violence on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika at the Onset of Colonial Occupation Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Benedetta Rossi
In the late nineteenth century, abolitionists felt entitled to use all possible means to save the African victims of the slave trade. As European imperialism rose, abolitionism legitimized interven...
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The National Story of Racial Science and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Carolyn Eastman
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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The Morant War of Representation: Freedom and Whiteness in Jamaican Narratives of the Morant Bay Uprising Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Liz Egan
This article approaches Jamaican responses to the Morant Bay uprising as part of the earlier ‘war of representation’ fought between abolitionists and pro-slavery writers at the beginning of the nin...
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Fear, Dependency and Complicity in Late Eighteenth-Century Grenada, 1784–1796 Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Kit Candlin
This article uses an unusual case of murder in the British, formally French, colony of Grenada in 1784 as a useful window to explore the themes of fear and dependency among planters, and complicity...
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Jacob D. Green and Britain’s Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist Network Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Hannah-Rose Murray, Calvin Schermerhorn
Jacob D. Green’s speaking career in England (1863-66) is an exploration of how an independent, self-financed Black speaker became a networked abolitionist building on the achievements of other expa...
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Making Marriages at the ‘End of Slavery’: Religion, Identity, and Law in the Early Colonial French Soudan Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Wallace Teska
This article examines how formerly enslaved people in the early colonial French Soudan (today Mali) negotiated and contested the meanings of marriage at the ‘end of slavery’. Because the abolition ...
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‘Horrible Enough to Stir a Man's Soul’: Enslaved Men, Emotions, and Heterosexual Intimacy in the Antebellum U.S. South Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Kaisha Esty
This article analyses enslaved men's emotive responses to slavery's sexual economy in the antebellum U.S. South. It joins the growing historical literature on everyday forms of resistance and refus...
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Whose Emotions? Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Hannah Cusworth
This article is intended both as a methodological intervention and as a provocation. It calls on us to think very carefully about how, why and (ultimately) if we should do this work of combining th...
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Introduction Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Beth R. Wilson, Emily West
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2024)
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The Performance and Appearance of Confidence Among the Enslavers of South Carolina and Cuba Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Liana Beatrice Valerio
For decades the public and private documents of enslavers have been examined to produce seminal studies of slavery. This article explores the interval between public and private, exposing it as a l...
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‘Her Work of Love’: Forced Separations, Maternal Grief, and Enslaved Mothers’ Emotional Practices in the Antebellum US South Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Beth R. Wilson
This article considers enslaved mothers’ emotional responses to the separation of their children. While slavery studies scholars have discussed the individual impact sales had on enslaved people, a...
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‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Katherine Burns
This article examines formerly enslaved people’s use of Information Wanted advertisements to reconnect with lost family after the American Civil War. This article argues that physical reunification...
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Trials of Enslavers in Former French Colonies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Testimonies of the Enslaved between Gratitude and Fear Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Teresa Göltl
This article sheds light on a rarely considered aspect of colonial reality: trials of enslavers. The focus lies on lawsuits against members of the slaveholding elite in which enslaved people appear...
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‘Enslavement, Emotions and Oppositional Insolence in the Slave Society of British Guiana’ Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Gordon Gill
Enslavers utilized various methods of physical and psychological violence to effect emotions of terror and fear in their African captives in order to create and maintain systems of enslavement thro...
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Memory, Trauma and ‘Affective Autonomy’: Displaying Emotion and Trauma at the International Slavery Museum Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Matthew Jones
This article attempts to answer the question of how museums might communicate the affective experience of enslavement, and the history of emotions and slavery, to their audiences. By using the Inte...
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Well Fed but ‘at the Same Time, Well Beaten’: Amelioration in the Seychelles Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jane Hooper
In the years prior to legal emancipation, British officials enacted a series of laws intended to ameliorate the condition of those held in slavery in their colonies. This article investigates the i...
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The Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison, and Fear in the Antebellum Press Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Erin Austin Dwyer
When enslaved people were accused of poisoning enslavers, it was newsworthy throughout the antebellum United States. Part of the broad appeal of such articles was their malleability; as reports of ...
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Happiness in Havana? Día de Reyes as an Emotional Refuge in Colonial Cuba Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 William Perez
This article draws on William Reddy’s framework of emotional regimes and refuges to assess marginalized emotionality in colonial Cuba and to position Día de Reyes as an important emotional refuge. ...
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The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Sukriti Issar
How did property in persons manifest itself in late eighteenth-century Bombay? This article uses judicial records to explore how the master-slave relationship could be inverted: a woman sued a man ...
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The Re-enslavement of Guadeloupe: Criminal Courts in the Re-establishment of Slavery, 1802–1806 Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Elyssa Gage
While the re-establishment of slavery has become better known, the process by which this return was effected remains understudied. While scholars have examined the return of colour prejudice and th...
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Workers, Wives and Radicals: Women and Abolitionism in the North-East of England, 1792–1865 Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 F.S. Aird
This article provides a systematic and localized analysis of how female anti-slavery activity in the North-East of England influenced and impacted the transatlantic campaign to abolish slavery in t...
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Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Northern Encounters with Self-Emancipated Black Southerners in Fuelling the U.S. Civil War and Slavery’s Collapse Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Hunter Moyler
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2024)
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Rendered Useless: The Business of Slavery, a Sick African Girl, and the Law in Colonial Newport Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Sherri V. Cummings
During the eighteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island stood at the centre of the Transatlantic slave trade, producing commodities like rum to be traded for African captives from Senegambia, the Gold...
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A ‘Liberal Solution’ to Slave Emancipation: State Institutions, Party Politics, and the Trials of Political Abolitionism in Mid-1880s Brazil Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Filipe Nicoletti Ribeiro
The article examines slavery and abolitionism in Brazil in the mid-1880s and thereby contributes to historiography and expands our understanding of the Brazilian Empire’s political conflicts in its...
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‘Refuge in the British Lines’: Refugees from Slavery and Sanctuary Status in New York City, 1782–1783 Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 James Mackay
This article explores how Black freedom seekers in New York City gained recognition from the British military as refugees in the twelve months between the signing of the provisional Treaty of Paris...
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Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Adrian Brettle
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Caroline Wood Newhall
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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Islamic Tombstones for Slaves from Abbasid-Era Egypt Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jelle Bruning
This article studies tombstones from eighth- to tenth-century CE Egypt that are designed to mark the grave of a Muslim slave. These funerary inscriptions are unusual in that they do not marginalize...
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Editor’s Note: A 40th Anniversary Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Gad Heuman Editor
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World: Texts and Contexts Slavery & Abolition (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jelle Bruning, Said Reza Huseini
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)