Theme

Slavery and the Slave Trade

Featured Items

Detail of title page shows red and black printed text reading "Oronoko, traduit de l'anglois, de Madame Behn."

Oronoko

Aphra Behn
1745

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Recent Acquisition on Commercial Bureaucracy in the Spanish Empire

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Sugar and the Visual Imagination in the Atlantic World, circa 1600-1860

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Trans-American Crossings Conference Attracts Slavery Scholars to Providence

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April 12, 2018
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Fresh Ink: Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico by Pablo M. Sierra Silva

April 12, 2018
detail from a page in Charles de Rochefort’s Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l’Amerique 1681

A View of Slave Cabins on the Margins

March 8, 2018
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Researching the Slave Trade in the JCB Collections

March 8, 2018

See Also

Colonial Law

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