Afro-Latin America in Flesh and Blood: Lives from the Battlefield, Cane Field, and Courtroom; Representations from Literature, Politics, and the Genomics Lab by Lowell Gudmundson

“…Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro. By Camillia Cowling. …”
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Dissenter Protestantism and moral and social change by Arne Rasmusson

“…Dissenter Protestantism, Pietist, and revivalist movements have played a crucial but often overlooked role in the emergence and development of democracy, the abolition of slavery and the struggle for women’s rights. …”
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Collecting worlds: biocultural comparison and the HMS Beagle voyage, 1831-1836 by Gilbert, DL

“…Further, contemporaneous with the abolition of slavery and the burgeoning of natural resource commodification under industrialisation, the expedition collected materials and recorded observations that prompted a new approach towards understanding the world’s diversity of life. …”

Changing Caribbean geographies: connections in flora, fauna and patterns of settlement from Indian inheritances by Brinsley Samaroo

“…However, most analyses have dealt with the sugar industry in the colonies after the abolition of slavery. This paper will argue that, apart from the sugar industry, Indian labour and ingenuity made other significant contributions to plantation economies. …”
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Blackness in America and the Presumption of Innocence: How the American Police and Mass Media Poisoned Everything by Williams Iheme

“…In American history, the ‘Black body’ has been commodified both during the slavery era and in the contemporary period whereby the private management of prisons has partly resulted to mass Black incarceration. The abolition of slavery some 150 years ago is still fairly recent compared to the 400 years it was practiced: thus some of the heinous treatments by slave owners were carried over into the criminal justice system, causing the police, jury, judges, etc., to treat Black people unequally and unfairly compared to their White counterparts. …”
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Origin and spread of leprosy in Suriname. A historical and biomedical study by William R. Faber, Karin Sewpersad, Henk Menke, Henk Menke, Charlotte Avanzi, Annemieke Geluk, Els M. Verhard, Maria Tió Coma, Mike Chan, Toine Pieters

“…The presence of the Asian strains 1D-2 probably reflects an introduction by contract workers from India, China and Indonesia during the late 19th and early 20th century after the abolition of slavery. There is currently no definite evidence for the occurrence of the European strain 3 in the 26 patients. …”
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Mickiewiczowska hermeneutyka "tego, co religijne". Próba lektury postsekularnej by Agnieszka Bednarek-Bohdziewicz

“…According to this poet-politician, the revival of the religioncentered spirit is associated with the freedom revolution (the abolition of slavery, equality of women, emancipation of nations). …”
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Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1862-1934): uma mulher fora de seu tempo? by Magali Gouveia Engel

“…In this sense, women are shown to have had a fundamental role in political struggles for the abolition of slavery and the end of the monarchical regime and to have conquered a position and respect in the eminently masculine intellectual milieu. …”
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