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Trevor Burnard considers how historians can write a history of slavery that spans different societies, empires, and periods. He questions approaches that take the experience of the antebellum United States as the principal model, asking how other forms of dependence, ownership, and coercion can be understood on their own historical terms.
The book connects slavery with the changing institutions of empire and examines what comparisons can reveal or obscure. Burnard also considers sources that preserve the lives, experiences, and thoughts of enslaved people, alongside insights drawn from the study of modern slavery. The result is a concise discussion of the concepts, evidence, and historical scales involved in studying slavery globally.
Trevor Burnard. Writing the History of Global Slavery. Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009406284. CC BY-NC 4.0. Original edition unchanged.