Journal articles

This database consists of articles on labour and topics related to this issue and some reviews. Click here for a list of the journals included in this database. We are still working to add a larger variety of journals and reviews from different countries and continents.

Title Author Year Journalsort ascending Online
Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834–1866 Altink 2011 Slavery and Abolition yes
‘Let the constitution perish’: Prigg v. Pennsylvania, Joseph Story, and the flawed doctrine of historical necessity Plaag 2004 Slavery and Abolition yes
Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790–2010 Newman 2014 Slavery and Abolition yes
Protection, Political Exile, and the Atlantic Slave Trade: History and Collective Memory in Dahomey Bay Slavery and Abolition yes
A New Look at the African Slave Trade in Puerto Rico Through the Use of Parish Registers: 1660–1815 Stark 2009 Slavery and Abolition yes
A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said Lovejoy 2012 Slavery and Abolition yes
Review Essay: Putting New World Slavery in Perspective 2007 Slavery and Abolition yes
‘The Righteous Will Shine Like the Sun’: Writing an Evocative History of Antebellum American Slavery Burnard 2015 Slavery and Abolition yes
Slave-Trade Nomenclature and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Evidence from Early Eighteenth-Century Costa Rica Lohse 2002 Slavery and Abolition yes
‘Their Coats were Tied Up like Men’: Women Rebels in Antigua's 1858 Uprising Lightfoot 2010 Slavery and Abolition yes
In the Fields of a ‘Strange Land’: Enslaved Newcomers and the Adjustment to Cotton Cultivation in the Antebellum South Alan Pargas 2013 Slavery and Abolition yes
A tale of two plantations: slave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia Petley 2015 Slavery and Abolition yes
Engendering Whiteness White Women and Colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865 Brereton 2009 Slavery and Abolition yes
From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775–1807 Petley 2012 Slavery and Abolition yes
Enslaved women and the law: Paradoxes of subordination in the post-Revolutionary Carolinas Edwards 2005 Slavery and Abolition yes
Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit Wheat 2014 Slavery and Abolition yes
Slavery and the Debate over Ratification of the United States Constitution Morgan 2001 Slavery and Abolition yes
Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and The Radical Enlightenment Dash 2010 Slavery and Abolition yes
The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the Ending of Slavery Rupprecht 2013 Slavery and Abolition yes
‘Free from the tyrannous Spanyard’? Englishmen and Africans in Spain's Atlantic World Guasco 2008 Slavery and Abolition yes
The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation Hörmann 2011 Slavery and Abolition yes
Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba Helg 2015 Slavery and Abolition yes
Voices and Silences: The Problem of Slave Testimony in the English West Indian Law Court Zacek 2003 Slavery and Abolition yes
Children in Slavery through the Ages Diptee 2011 Slavery and Abolition yes
Slave Suicide, Abolition and the Problem of Resistance Bell 2013 Slavery and Abolition yes

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