In 1789 the West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France. The entire structure of what was arguably the most profitable colony in the…

Historian James Walvin looks at the history of our collective sweet tooth, beginning with the sugar grown by enslaved people who had been uprooted and shipped vast distances to undertake…

The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship Zong and the lasting repercussions of this horrifying event

The British role in the shaping and direction of the African diaspora was central, since the British carried more Africans across the Atlantic than any other nation. This book presents…

This volume describes the life of Henry Clarke, a teacher, a cleric politician, a businessman, an inventor, and the father of eleven children who lived in Jamaica for the last…

This title brings together essential writings on slavery, focusing on Atlantic slavery between the 15th and 19th centuries. Themes include: the origins and development of American slavery, work, slave culture…

Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade