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The passage of the International Labour Organization’s Forced Labour Convention (No. 29) in 1930 was a momentous event in global labor history, signaling an ...

The vogue for "ethnicity" in many fields of historical study has reified a concept for which there is little direct evidence in the historical record before ...

The lecture will discuss how the construction of open-source relational databases has altered the scholarly study of slavery. Once it was thought that there ...

How did Islamic law change the status of slave mothers and their children? While granting certain protections, such as freedom upon the owner's death and ...

What has education to do with dependency? In a famous letter, Jerome (d. 419) narrates that, in a dream vision, he was called before Christ and accused of ...

This lecture uses a range of printed materials and analytical methods to address the vocabulary of slavery in England during the long seventeenth century and ...

How did enslaved individuals in the Americas navigate the path to freedom? Focusing on Trujillo, Peru, this lecture contends that legal manumission alone did ...

The lecture investigates the history of coffee in the longue durée, from its first emergence in the commercial networks of the Ottoman Empire to the world ...

Beyond chattel slavery, who really built the global plantation complex? This lecture takes a global, longue durée approach, challenging the assumption that ...

How did labor relations evolve in colonial Hispanic America, and what factors contributed to the increased coercion in the seventeenth century? Hypothesizing ...