Pathways from Slavery

Seymour Drescher is Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

1. White Atlantic? The choice for African Slave Labor in the Plantation Americas 2. The Shocking Birth of British Abolitionism 3. Whose Abolition? Popular Pressure and the Ending of the British Slave Trade 4. Cart Whip and Billy Roller: Antislavery and Reform Symbolism in Industrializing Britain 5. Women’s Mobilization in the Era of Slave Emancipation: Some Anglo-French Comparisons 6. Civilizing Insurgency: Two Variants of Slave Revolts 7. Liberty, Equality Humanity: Antislavery and Civil Society in Britain and France 8. Emperors of the World: British Abolitionism and Imperialism 9. History’s Engines: British Mobilization in the Age of Revolution 10. Civil Society and Paths to Abolition 11. Abolition and Civil Society: East and West 12. Britain, India and Bondage, Part One: Birth of the "Slow Death of Slavery" 13. Britain, India and Bondage, Part Two: Indentured Emigration