THE FACES OF FREEDOM. THE MANUMISSION AND EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES IN OLD WORLD AND NEW WORLD SLAVERY

This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern states of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of emancipation in the twentieth century. The aim of this work is to present a comparative forum for the study of freedpeople. By identifying what is separate and what is universal about freedpeople it hopes to add to a better understanding of the role and impact of manumission and emancipation in different slave societies.

Contributors include: Valentina Arena, Steeve Buckridge, Mariana Dantas, Marc Kleijwegt, Martin Klein, Rita Reynolds, Chandima Wickramasinghe, Swithin Wilmot, and Nigel Worden.

Marc Kleijwegt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Ancient Youth: The Ambiguity of Youth and the Absence of Adolescence in Graeco-Roman Society (Gieben, 1991) and co-editor, with Wim Jongman, of After the Past: Essays in Honour of H.W. Pleket (Brill, 2002).