Slavery and abolition in the Caribbean and Brazil: Blood, fire, and freedom

Abstract

– Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, by Marjoleine Kars, The New Press, 2020.

– Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire, by Tom Zoellner, Harvard University Press, 2020.

– In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain’s Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870, by Jesús Sanjurjo, The University of Alabama Press, 2021.

– The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro, by Jeffrey D. Needell, Stanford University Press, 2020.