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 descending Online
‘Goin' back over there to see that girl’: Competing social spaces in the lives of the enslaved in Antebellum North Carolina Griffin 2004 Slavery and Abolition yes
Rivers of gold, lives of bondage: Governing through slavery in colonial Quito Hunefeldt 2015 Slavery and Abolition yes
If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade Richardson 2008 Slavery and Abolition yes
Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution Roth 2014 Slavery and Abolition yes
Gorge: An African Seaman and his Flights from ‘Freedom’ back to ‘Slavery’ in the Early Nineteenth Century Hawthorne 2010 Slavery and Abolition yes
Catholic Conspirators? Religious Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Cuba (pages 495-520) Landers 2015 Slavery and Abolition yes
Notes and documents - On the Early Use and Origin of the Term 'Obeah' in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean Handler 2001 Slavery and Abolition yes
Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest Faulkner 2011 Slavery and Abolition yes
'An Outrage on All Decency': Abolitionist Reactions to Flogging Jamaican Slave Women, 1780-1834 Altink 2002 Slavery and Abolition yes
The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World Dornan 2014 Slavery and Abolition yes
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln Lundberg 2007 Slavery and Abolition yes
Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, & the Law Fraser 2013 Slavery and Abolition yes
The Ultimate Sin: Christianising Slaves in Barbados in the Seventeenth Century Gerbner 2010 Slavery and Abolition yes
The Akan diaspora in the Americas Littlefield 2012 Slavery and Abolition yes
Notes of a serf woman by M. E. Vasilieva MacKay 2000 Slavery and Abolition yes
Reviews 2005 Slavery and Abolition yes
The Two lives of Sally Miller West 2009 Slavery and Abolition yes
‘Freedom Narratives’ of Transatlantic Slavery Lovejoy 2011 Slavery and Abolition yes
Ties that Bind: Baptismal Sponsorship of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico Stark 2015 Slavery and Abolition yes
After the Slavers: Law, Liberation and Captive-taking in the New Mexican Borderlands Francis Castro 2007 Slavery and Abolition yes
Mary Prince, Grand Turk, and Antigua Maddison-MacFadyen 2013 Slavery and Abolition yes
‘The Heavenization of Earth’: African American Visions and Uses of the Afterlife, 1863–1901 Gin 2010 Slavery and Abolition yes
‘The horrid villainy’: Sarah Bassett and the poisoning conspiracies in Bermuda, 1727–30 Maxwell 2000 Slavery and Abolition yes
Negotiating freedom: Women of colour and the transition to free labour in Cuba, 1870–1886 Cowling 2005 Slavery and Abolition yes
Building Slavery in the Atlantic World: Atlantic Connections and the Changing Institution of Slavery in Cabo Verde, Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries Green 2011 Slavery and Abolition yes

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