British workhouses were intimately bound up with slavery and imperialism throughout the early modern period, new research from Cardiff University finds. Published in the journal Antipode, the article ...

Introduction -- Buying Oroonoko in Salem : sentimentality, spectacle, slavery, and the Salem Social Library -- "Whatever is, is right" : the Redwood Library and the reception of Pope's poetry in ...

Few lives in British history stretch as far morally as John Newton’s. Born in London in 1725, he grew up to captain slave ships across the Atlantic, transporting human beings in conditions so brutal ...