Writing the History of Slavery

David Stefan Doddington is Senior Lecturer in North American History at Cardiff University, UKEnrico Dal Lago is Professor of American History at National University of Ireland, Galway, UK

This is a fascinating volume on the historiography of slavery. It has interesting chapters on how historians have approached the global history of slavery and concepts such as empire, capitalism and antislavery. The book also deals with the methods and perspectives historians have used to explore slavery, including race, gender and memory. A valuable and important collection.

• Part I: Global approaches1 Defining slavery in global perspective (David Lewis, University of Edinburgh, UK)2 Writing global histories of slavery (Michael Zeuske, University of Cologne, Germany, University of Bonn, Germany, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba)3 Slavery and empire (Trevor Burnard, University of Hull, UK)4 The ‘Great Divergence’: Slavery, capitalism and world-economy, (Dale Tomich, Binghamton University, USA)5 Approaches to global antislavery (Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, USA)6 Comparative and transnational histories of slavery (Enrico Dal Lago, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)Part II: Themes and methods 7 Political and legal histories of slavery (Sue Peabody, Washington State University, USA)8 Writing national histories of slavery (Lewis Eliot, University of Oklahoma, USA)9 Writing the religious history of the enslaved in the Atlantic World (Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina, USA)10 What historians of slavery write about when we write about race, (Jacqueline Jones, University of Texas at Austin, USA)11 Gender history and slavery (David Stefan Doddington, Cardiff University, UK)12 Dispossessed lives: Enslaved women, violence, and the archive, (Marisa J. Fuentes, Rutgers University, USA with an introduction from Elizabeth Maeve Barnes, University of Reading, UK)13 Slavery, postcolonialism and the colonial archive, (Andrea Major, University of Leeds, UK)14 Imagining slavery in Roman antiquity (K.R. Bradley, University of Notre Dame, USA)15 Quantitative histories of slavery, (Andrea Livesey, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)16 Psychohistory and slavery, (Patrick H. Breen, Providence College, USA)17 Material culture, archaeology and slavery, (Lydia Wilson Marshall, DePauw University, USA)18 Slavery and the cultural turn, (Raquel Kennon, California State University, Northridge, USA)19 Re-tooling memory and memory tools: America’s ongoing re-memory of slavery, (Marcus Wood, University of Sussex, UK)