New approaches to the slave trade, slavery, abolition and emancipation across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

Abstract

ABSTRACT Taking the theme of “abolition” as its point of departure, this collection of essays builds on the significant growth in scholarship on unfree labour in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds during the past two decades. The essays revisit some of the persistent problems posed by the traditional comparative literature on slavery and indentured labour and identify new and exciting areas for future research.