Re-imagining the History of British Abolition: The New Historical Consciousness in Winsome Pinnock’s Rockets and Blue Lights by Xiting Qiao

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Slavery, antislavery, political rivalry and regional networks in East African waters, 1877-1883 by Edward A. Alpers

“…This paper explores the dynamic between local, regional, and global forces for the Comoro Islands between the 1873 treaty mandating abolition of the export slave trade from Zanzibar to the imposition of French suzerainty over the Comoro Islands in 1886. …”
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The birth of the Yoruba hegemony in post-abolition candomblé by Luis Nicolau Parés

“…The birth of the Yoruba hegemony in post-abolition candomblé. Historical data indicates that critical Jeje and Nagô religious practices of West African origin were already well consolidated in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) in the 1860s, suggesting their rooting in the period of the slave-trade. …”
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“That Sottish and Selfish principle”: Cugoano on Self-Interest, Imagination, and Moral Wrongdoing by Aminah Hasan-Birdwell

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De l’évolution de l’esclavage à Cuba by Jean-Pierre Tardieu

“…For José Agustín Caballero (1762-1835), the main obstacle to the economic development of the island of Cuba is to be found in the conservatism of the big landowners whose attitude towards slavery manifests ineptitude, hence a high dependence on the slave trade’s foreign capital, and, as a result, a great financial fragility. …”
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