A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Empire

About the author

Mariana P. Candido is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor of History, Emory University. She is the author of Wealth Land and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality (2022); An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World (2013); and Fronteras de esclavización: esclavityd, comercio e identidad en Benguela, 1780-1850 (2011). She has co-edited African Women in the Atlantic World. Property, Vulnerability and Mobility, 1680-1880 (2019); Laços Atlânticos: África e africanus durante a era do comércio transatlântico de escravos (2017) and Crossing Memories: Slavery and the African Diaspora (2011).Benjamin N. Lawrance is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, USA. He is the author of Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling (2014). He is also the co-editor of several books, including Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status: The Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony (2015; with Galya Ruffer) and Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa (2012; with Richard L. Roberts).

Product details

• Assisted by: Mariana P. Candido (Editor), Benjamin N. Lawrance (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.12.2024
• EAN: 9781350053793
• ISBN: 978-1-350-05379-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Illustrations: 36 bw illus
• Series: The Cultural Histories Series
• Subjects: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / World, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, General & world history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Empires & historical states, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Other Geographical Groupings, Oceans & Seas