Nathalie Dessens, Richard Marin. Les mots de l’esclavage aux Amériques by Anne-Claire Faucquez

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Separation of Church and State, American Exceptionalism, and the Contemporary Social Moment: Viewing Church–State Separation from the Priority of Slavery by Joseph Prud'homme

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The Amistad case by Andrey A. Shumakov

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US Political Economy and the Clash over Emancipation on the Eve of the Civil War by Matteo Rossi

“…The essay reconstructs the conflict over emancipation that unfolded in the United States in the decades before the Civil War, focusing on the discourse of Northern political economy and particularly on the writings of Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879). …”
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L’Atlantique de l’esclavage, 1775‑1860. by Marie-Jeanne Rossignol

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The Underground Railroad: main aspects of operation by S. T. Khapchaev

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ORLEANS SLAVE REVOLT OF 1811: CAUSES, COURSE, CONSEQUENCES by Shumakov A.A.

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An Abolitionist Heteroglossia: Racial Reconstruction in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted by Nisa Harika GÜZEL KÖŞKER

“…Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted has been widely discussed in relation to the ways in which the novel caters to the popular gender ideologies that deny and devalue black womanhood in both the antebellum and postbellum United States. This article, however, argues that Iola Leroy can further be considered a reformist novel that explores the questions of racial identity and slavery as well as diverse constructions of abolitionism in the postbellum United States. …”
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Escaping Slavery by Sea in Antebellum America: A Labor History by Marcus Rediker

“…This article explores a relatively neglected topic in the histories of slavery and abolitionism in the antebellum United States: how enslaved people escaped by sea and more specifically how the waterfront was a zone of struggle over slavery from roughly 1820 to 1865. …”
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Debate: The Challenges and Perils of Reframing Trafficking as ‘Modern-Day Slavery’ by Janie Chuang

“…In the last five years, we have seen a rebranding of global anti-trafficking efforts as ‘modern-day slavery’ abolitionism. The United States of America (US) Department of State and powerful philanthropists are key proponents of the slavery makeover, prompting other governments, international organisations, and non-governmental organisations alike to adopt the ‘modern-day slavery’ frame. …”
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Mimicry of Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the formation of resistant slave narrative in Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada by Ramin, Zohreh, Roshnavand, Farshid Nowrouzi

“…African American novelist Ishmael Reed adopts the postmodern technique of mimicry to severely criticize and disrupt the racist structure of the United States. In his “resistant” slave narrative Flight to Canada (1976), he takes to task the traditional historiography, showing how a so-called antislavery novel like Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin employs racial essentialism to reinforce the stereotypical representations of blacks and distort history to the benefit of white dominators. …”
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