"This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences. A model of state policy which aims to abolish prostitution through legislation, Neo-abolitionism criminalises the buyer of sex but not the selle…
Iain Whyte investigates the history of slavery and its abolition with a particular assessment of Scotland's role in emancipation.
Iain Whyte investigates the history of slavery and its abolition with a particular assessment of Scotland's role in emancipation.
Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Lon…
Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Lon…
Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Lon…
This book is a historical account of the slave trading system of the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century and of the attempts, which were eventually successful, to suppress it. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest prin…
Gabrial analyzes the role of the news media in the shaping of national and local understandings of slavery, resistance to slavery, and the abolition movement in the U.S. between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries.
An examination of how press coverage of slave revolts forced public discussions that ultimately influenced public opinion.
