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Presents an international comparative study of a mode of emancipation that worked to reinforce the institution of slavery. This book presents a volume of essays that comprises a comparative study of manumission - the act of freeing a slave while the institution of slavery continues - as it affected slave systems on both sides of the Atlantic.

Traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites, from the fourth century to the twentieth, and, from Africa, Sicily, Wales, and Iceland to Canada, Boston, Brazil, and the Caribbean. This inter-disciplinary collection charts the changing images and meanings of holy people as their veneration traveled from the Old World to the New.

International scholars explicate such diverse ramifcations of the Haitian revolution as the spawning of slave resistance and the stimulation of slavery's expansion, and the formation of black and white disaporas. The revolution is shown to have embittered debates about race and abolition.

A study of the Huguenot migration. It sheds light on the Protestant experience both in and outside of France. Revealing how minority status at home affected the creation of refugee communities outside France, it traces the Huguenots' eventual integration into different host societies.

An exploration of South Carolina's slave system, economy, and complex social and cultural life. Topics covered include the colony's reliance on slave labour, the institution and abandonment of Indian slavery, the reproductive capabilities of slave women and the social position of skilled slaves.