This series contributes to breaking the mold of slavery studies by offering a platform for a wide range of historiographical approaches springing from a critical re-examination of primary sources. As the history of slavery and the legacy of its global abolition continue to fascinate scholars, this series takes as a starting point the idea that any understanding of slavery and its societal afterlife necessarily calls for an analysis of the distribution of historical power, as well as an acknowledgement of the fact that – while varying in scale and intensity – forms of enslavement can be found throughout human civilization and across the globe.

As such, it pays close attention to the legacies of slavery, such as cultural production, cultures of remembrance and forms of exclusion, as well as the struggle for equality and emancipation. We welcome proposals that deal with topics such as, but are not exclusive to, enslaved lifeways, legal foundations, economies of slavery, abolition of slavery, representations, cultures of resistance, and emancipation.

Forthcoming (contracted) titles include:

• The Legal Framework of Slavery in the Dutch Republic and Its Colonies, Bastiaan D. van der Velden
• The Private Slave Trade in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam. On Jochem Matthijs and Coenraad Smitt, Ramona Negrón and Jessica den Oudsten
• News Making, Contested Publics and Stories of Belonging in the Dutch Caribbean, Sanne Rotmeijer
• Slavery and Post-Apartheid Cultural Production in South Africa. Holding Memory, Nicola Cloete
• Postcolonial Caribbean Literature from Suriname and the Antilles. Navigating Memory, Rewriting Violence, Yra van Dijk and Thalia Ostendorf