Abolition

Slavery has helped to change the world, and the world has transformed the institution. From the 1450s, when Europeans first interacted with peoples of other continents to create the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history, to the twentieth century, where a new system of slavery, larger and more deadly than before, has inundated Europe, this book examines the impact of violence, economics, and civil society on slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.