A social and transnational history of black abolitionism in BrazilFreedom’s Horizon is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last country to abolish slavery in the Western...

One of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish CaribbeanCaptives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish...

Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic worldBy the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed...

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor...

Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and...

In the decades following England’s 1655 conquest of Spanish Jamaica, the western Caribbean became the site of overlapping and competing claims—to land, maritime spaces, and people. English Jamaica,...