Books in the Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures series

This work explains how the expression of support for black people in 1792, when 400,000 people called for the abolition of the slave trade, was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain.

A collection of essays in which every contributor focuses upon some aspect of slave emancipation with the aim of assessing to what extent the outcome met with expectation.

This volume examines the various abolitionist impulses in the Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and assesses their efficacy within a context of a growing demand for labour resulting from an expanding international economy and European colonisation.

This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of 'mothering' that took place in Atlantic slave societies. This book comprises two special issues, originally published in Slavery & Abolition and Women's History Review.