Michaël Roy, Young Abolitionists : Children of the Antislavery Movement by Anne-Claire Faucquez

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Force de la pudeur by Suzanne Fraysse

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Dětství v otroctví pohledem dobových ego-dokumentů by Šárka Bubíková

“…It further contrasts the reality of slave childhood with the period’s idealization of childhood as a fragile state of innocence, purity and joyfulness and mentions how this contrast was used by the abolitionist movement. …”
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Voix du Sud : étude de trois autobiographies de femmes esclaves by Dominique Aurélia

“…This essay examines the presence of the half-muted and marginalized women slaves’ voices which nevertheless inform the audience of the time as well as the contemporary scholar on their desire to inscribe their being within the public sphere as they question the issue of identity and emancipation through their texts. Beyond the pro-abolitionist debate context, they speak as true and free human beings living in a post-slavery society.…”
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Evangélisme et politique dans la jeune République by Lucia Bergamasco

“…Today we see the conflation of hitherto separate historiographical trends : namely, the study of the evangelical movement, of its radical abolitionist wing, and of the changing political attitudes of the Americans before the Civil War.…”
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On Archival Research: Recovering and Rewriting History. The Case of Sarah Parker Remond by Sirpa Salenius

“…Sharing stories recovered from various archives, such as that of the African American abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, and doctor Sarah Remond, generates awareness of the ways in which experiences and the contribution of the marginalized, many of them women, may remain overshadowed by mainstream narratives. …”
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Cugoano on Redressing Slavery: The Demands of Liberty by Iziah C Topete

“…To elucidate the arguments that make Cugoano radical in his context, this article compares Cugoano with his abolitionist contemporary Thomas Clarkson. Clarkson developed a social contract theory, claiming that mentality endows all humans with liberty as a natural right. …”
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John Locke, Abolitionism, and the Reactionary Enlightenment by Brian Smith

“…In the increasingly polemical abolitionist and pro-slavery literature of the eighteenth century, John Locke’s thought was often tokenized. …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…It was the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 which showed William Wells Brown (and Frederick Douglass) that fiction might serve the abolitionist cause as much as a true narrative faithfully attested.In 1853, with the publication of his novel Clotel, William Wells Brown took African American narrative in a direction that was new and dangerous. …”
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La panique morale au cœur du débat sur la peine de mort en Algérie by Belkacem Benzenine

“…This debate has generated a confrontation of ideas between abolitionists and human rights defenders on the one hand and death penalty advocates on the other.…”
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