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Slavery
Medieval
How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe
General History
Kris Manjapra
“Black communities have had to pay for the failures of emancipation”
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Victorian
Escaping slavery in the American South
Georgian
The Demerara slave uprising
Georgian
The Zong Massacre: what the dark episode meant for the British slave trade and abolition
Victorian
How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology
Georgian
Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded
Roman
Q&A
Could Roman slaves buy their own freedom?
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Roman
Slavery in ancient Rome: how important were enslaved people to Roman society?
Victorian
Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire
Ancient Greece
Slavery in ancient Greece: what was life like for enslaved people?
Georgian
How should we teach the slave trade?
Victorian
Emma Dabiri
"William Cuffay's story is more relevant now than ever"
Georgian
George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch
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