General Paper Topics for Slavery and Abolition

 

 

Themes

 

Slavery and Racism

Slavery and Religion

Slave Religion

Slave Culture

Slavery in the Ottoman Empire

Slavery and Warfare in Africa

Capitalism and Abolition

Gender and Slavery

Manumission

Freed persons in Europe or Americas

Missionaries and Slavery

Black Africans in Europe

Antislavery Literature

Women and Antislavery

Antislavery Art

Anti-abolitionists

Antislavery in Latin America

Antislavery in Africa

Haitian Revolt

 

Organizations

 

American Anti-Slavery Society

American Colonization Society

Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Britain)

The British Antislavery Squadron

Society  for the Amelioration and Gradual Abolition of Slavery  (Britain)

Clapham Sect

Sugar Boycott

Sierra Leone

Liberia

 

Legal Decisions and Legislative Acts (excluding the 1807 Abolition of Trade)

 

Zong Case

Amistad Case

British Emancipation Act (1833)

Abolition of Slavery in French colonies (1794)

Code Napoleon

Thirteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

 

Black Abolitionists (excluding Equiano)

 

Quobna Cugoano

Frederick Douglass

Martin Delany

William Wells Brown

Harriet Jacobs

Henry Highland Garnet

Toussaint Louverture

David Walker

 

White Abolitionists (excluding Wilberforce)

 

John Woolman

Anthony Benezet

John Newton

Granville Sharp

Aphra Behn

Abb� Gregoire

Olympia de Gouge

Thomas Clarkson

William Lloyd Garrison

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Folwell Buxton