Ebook: Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires

In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance of the enslaved themselves from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings and its impact in overthrowing slavery. He also looks at the whole Atlantic world, including the Spanish Empire and Brazil. In doing so, he casts new light on one of the major shifts in Western history in the past five centuries.;1. People as things: the slave trade -- 2. Sinews of empire: Africans and the making of the American empires -- 3. Slave defiance -- 4. The slave owner's nightmare: Haiti -- 5. The friends of Black Freedom -- 6. Freeing Britain's slaves -- 7. The fall of US slavery -- 8. The end of slavery in the Spanish empire -- 9. The last to go: Brazil -- 10. Abolition in the wider world -- 11. Slavery in the modern age.