New Approaches to the Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

Jesús Sanjurjo is an Early Career Fellow of the Leverhulme and Isaac Newton Trusts at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is the author of In the Blood of Our Brothers. Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain’s Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870 (2021). Manuel Barcia is Chair of Global History at the University of Leeds. He is a scholar in the field of Atlantic and Slavery Studies. He has published extensively on the subjects of slave resistance, slave rebellion and the transfers of West African warfare knowledge to the Americas, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century Brazil and Cuba.

Introduction 1. The Cape Lopez Africans at Maranhão: Geo-political literacy, British consuls, and the demise of the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil 2. On the frontlines of slave trade abolition: British consuls combat state capture in Cuba and Mozambique 3. From abolition of the slave trade to protection of immigrants: Danish colonialism, German missionaries, and the development of ideas of humanitarian governance from the early eighteenth to the nineteenth century 4. Guerrilla inscription: Transatlantic abolition and the 1851 census 5. In the shadows between slave and free: A case for detangling the word “slave” from the word “chattel” 6. Shared Atlantic legal culture: the case of a freedom suit in Benguela