Modern slavery is widespread, but systemic injustice in society means this crime is able to perpetuate, hidden in plain sight. This expose shares moving survivor stories uncovering the harsh reality of modern slavery, and reveals what is going on behind closed doors, encouraging all of us to challenge this current atrocity.
How did the evil nature of slavery become enshrined in law in Great Britain? What drove the change in public perception? What were the key victories on the journey to abolition and who were the key players? What is to prevent a similar evil gaining acceptance again today? Just as Britain's industrial development in the eighteenth and early ......
How American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American identity that helped unify a divided people. A language of freedom played a similar role in shaping the new nation. The Declaration of ......
Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire
Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large ......
Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.
The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Tells the story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. This book demonstrates that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule.
On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet more than half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In Beyond Slavery's Shadow, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. draws from a wide array of sources to demonstrate that from the colonial period through the Civil War, the ......
A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate
A little-know story of mutiny and murder illustrating the centrality of smuggling and slavery in early American society On the night of June 1, 1743, terror struck the schooner Rising Sun. After completing a routine smuggling voyage where the crew sold enslaved Africans in exchange for chocolate, sugar, and coffee in the Dutch colony of ......
