The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a