The faces of freedom : : the manumission and emancipation of slaves in Old World and New World slavery / / edited by Marc Kleijwegt.

• Superior document: The Atlantic world, v. 7
• Author: International Centre for the History of Slavery.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kleijwegt, Marc.; International Centre for the History of Slavery.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Notes: "Originally delivered as papers at the second ICHOS-conference held at the University of Nottingham in September of 2001 under the title Freed slaves: Exclusion or Integration"--Ack.

This volume is concerned with 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.