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Antislavery Opinion Building (2020)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2020). Antislavery Opinion Building. In K. Bales, & Z. Trodd (Eds.), The Antislavery Usable Past: History’s Lessons for How We End Slavery Today (160-76). Nottingham: University of Nottingham Rights Lab

Afterword (2015)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2015). Afterword. In J. Metcalf, & C. Spaulding (Eds.), African American Culture and Society After Rodney King: Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism' (303-307). Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565989

After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire (2013)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2013). After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire. In M. Taylor (Ed.), The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World, 1837–1901 : The Sea and Global History (43-63). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312662_3

In the 26 years between 1807 and 1833, Britain not only put an end to its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, but also abolished slavery in the British Caribbean. These momentous events figure largely in the nation’s imagination and, indeed... Read More about After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire.

(Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer (2010)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2010). (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer. In C. Kaplan, & J. Oldfield (Eds.), Imagining Transatlantic Slavery (33-46). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277106_3

In recent years we have become accustomed to thinking of abolition, and specifically the campaign against the transatlantic slave trade, as a grass roots movement. Narrating the history of the early abolitionist movement from below is problematic, ho... Read More about (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer.