Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.

By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring s

Explores the long-neglected rural dimensions of northern slavery and emancipation in New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley. Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

Examines the history of slavery in Maryland and discusses the conditions of life of Maryland's slaves and free Blacks.

The contributors investigate the cultural consequences of manumission as well as the changing economic conditions that limited the practice by the eighteenth ce