Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires 9781472141446

Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Overthrow of Europe's Empires in the East 9781846145636, 1846145627, 9781846145629

The end of Europe's empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper's re

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Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption 9780691186405, 9780691130095, 9780691130101, 2006050993

If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25

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Empires of the Imagination 9781861978592

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The overthrow of colonial slavery, 1776-1848 9781789600865, 9781844674763, 9781844674756

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Reconstructing the Slave: The Image of the Slave in Ancient Greece 9781472555731, 9780715638026, 9781472504425

Although the importance of slavery to Greek society has long been recognised, most studies have primarily drawn upon rep

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A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa 9780231549554

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passe

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The freedom of the will

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Distant Freedom : St Helena and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1840-1872 [1 ed.] 9781781383858, 9781781382837

This book is an examination of the island of St Helena's involvement in slave trade abolition. After the establishm

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The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas 0807143359, 9780807143353

In June 1825 the Cuban countryside witnessed a large African-led slave rebellion -- a revolt that began a cycle of slave

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Empires of the Dead 9780007456659, 9780007457243

The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarka

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