This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations

While the memorialization of slavery has generated an impressive number of publications, relatively few studies deal with this subject from a transnational, tra

How is the slave trade remembered in West Africa? In a work that challenges recurring claims that Africans felt (and still feel) no sense of moral responsibilit

Between 1500 and 1870, European traders transported millions of Africans to the Americas to work as slaves—yet despite the wealth of scholarship on this perio

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped acro