Urban Slavery in the Age of Abolition: Volume 28, Part 1

• Introduction: urban slavery in the age of abolition Karwan Fatah-Black; 1. Comparative perspectives on the urban black Atlantic on the eve of abolition Wim Klooster; 2. Slaves and slavery in Kingston, 1770–1815 Trevor Burnard; 3. The expansion of slavery in Benguela during the nineteenth century Mariana P. Candido; 4. Freedom of movement, access to the urban centres, and abolition of slavery in the French Caribbean Marion Pluskota; 5. Families, manumission, and freed people in urban Minas Gerais in the era of Atlantic abolitionism Mariana L. R. Dantas and Douglas C. Libby; 6. Disappearing from abolitionism's heartland: the legacy of slavery and emancipation in Boston Jared Ross Hardesty; 7. Runaway slaves in antebellum Baltimore: an urban form of marronage? Viola Franziska Müller; 8. Remembering slavery in urban Cape Town: emancipation or continuity? Samuel North; Afterword: ghosts of slavery Ana Lucia Araujo.

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