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From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents (2023)
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Heys, A. (2023). From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents. Oxford University Press

Description: From Conflict to Modern Slavery considers the lives of people after they have fled conflict and arrived in the UK. The book draws on insights from interviews with those who have experienced the UK immigration system, and observations ar... Read More about From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents.

Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution (2023)
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Burnard, T. (in press). Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press

Based on a close reading of nearly four hundred articles in leading journals published over the past decade, Trevor Burnard provides an unprecedented examination and analysis of the direction of the field encompassed by the popular hashtag #VastEarly... Read More about Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution.

From "Little Better than Slaves" to "Cowskin Heroes": Poor White People in Jamaica, 1655-1782 (2021)
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Burnard, T. (2021). From "Little Better than Slaves" to "Cowskin Heroes": Poor White People in Jamaica, 1655-1782. Berlin: EB-Verlag

The principal axes along which seventeenth and eighteenth-century Jamaica divided were those of colour and of freedom. By the late eighteenth century, it became axiomatic that all Protestant whites were free and that all blacks were either enslaved o... Read More about From "Little Better than Slaves" to "Cowskin Heroes": Poor White People in Jamaica, 1655-1782.

Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones (2020)
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Evans, N., & McCarthy, A. (Eds.). (2020). Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

As the British expanded their empire from near colonies such as Ireland to those in remote corners of the world, such as Barbados, Ceylon, North America and Australia, they left a trail of physical remains in every parish where settlement occurred. B... Read More about Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones.

The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865 (2020)
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Oldfield, J. (2020). The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Monograph on international anti-slavery during the mid-nineteenth century. This ground-breaking book deals with two inter-related themes, opinion-building and transatlanticism, and includes chapters on abolitionist politics, songs, agent and popular... Read More about The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865.

Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020)
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Burnard, T. (2020). Jamaica in the Age of Revolution. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press)

Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in British America. White Jamaican slaveowners presided over a highly productive economic system, a pr... Read More about Jamaica in the Age of Revolution.

Heritage and festivals in Europe: Performing identities (2019)
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Kockel, U., Clopot, C., Tjarve, B., & Craith, M. N. (Eds.). (2019). Heritage and festivals in Europe: Performing identities. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429202964

© 2020 selection and editorial matter, Ullrich Kockel, Cristina Clopot, Baiba Tjarve and Máiréad Nic Craith. Heritage and Festivals in Europe critically investigates the purpose, reach and effects of heritage festivals. Providing a comprehensive and... Read More about Heritage and festivals in Europe: Performing identities.

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016 (2017)
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Eltis, D., Engerman, S. L., Drescher, S., & Richardson, D. (2017). D. Eltis, S. Engerman, S. Drescher, & D. Richardson (Eds.). The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139046176

© Cambridge University Press 2017. Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. Th... Read More about The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016.

The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (2016)
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Burnard, T., & Garrigus, J. (2016). The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293012

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by plan... Read More about The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica.

Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867 (2014)
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Richardson, D. (2014). D. Richardson, & F. Ribeiro da Silva (Eds.). Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004280588

Studies of the South Atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections between Angola and Brazil, and specifically on the flows of enslaved Africans from Luanda and the relations between Portuguese-Brazilian traders and other agents and their... Read More about Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867.

Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820 (2011)
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Oldfield, J. R. (2011). Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139344272

Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution offers a fresh exploration of anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It challenges traditional perceptions of early anti-slavery activity as an entirely parochia... Read More about Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820.

Extending the frontiers: Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database (2008)
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Richardson, D., & Eltis, D. (Eds.). (2008). Extending the frontiers: Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300134360.001.0001

Since 1999, intensive research efforts have vastly increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A huge database of slave trade voyages from Columbus' era to the mid-nineteenth century is now available on an... Read More about Extending the frontiers: Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database.

'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery (2007)
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Oldfield, J. (2007). 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery. Manchester: Manchester University Press

How should we as Britons remember transatlantic slavery? How has slavery been remembered in the past? 'Chords of freedom' sets out to answer these questions and, in doing so, traces the way in which British transatlantic slavery has been absorbed int... Read More about 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery.

Popular politics and British anti-slavery: The mobilisation of public opinion against the slave trade 1787-1807 (1998)
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Oldfield, J. R. (1998). Popular politics and British anti-slavery: The mobilisation of public opinion against the slave trade 1787-1807. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203061794

In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth... Read More about Popular politics and British anti-slavery: The mobilisation of public opinion against the slave trade 1787-1807.