Societies After Slavery: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South Africa and the British West Indies

Slavery, seemingly an inevitable consequence of empire, has existed as an economic institution since the earliest times of human history and, in particular, has formed a major part of European imperial history over the past 400 years. It has left an impact on the modern society of the European, African and American continents and has produced a richer and more multi‐faceted condition of relations between people of different races, colours and religious backgrounds. One of the massive transformations that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the movement of millions of people from the status of slaves...