Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World

by Paul E. Lovejoy (Editor)

This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West.

Hardcover

First published December 31, 1993

About the author

"Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at York University, holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and is Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. He is the author or editor of numerous volumes on the African diaspora." -from Bloomsbury Publishing website