Scholars of Atlantic slave systems and antislavery movements will welcome this volume containing 14 of Seymour Drescher’s essays, written over the past 25 years, on the Atlantic slave trade and abolitionist movements. Stanley Engerman has written a foreword with his own judicious assessment of Drescher’s contributions to the ongoing historical debates on slavery and slave systems in countries around the Atlantic Basin. This collection does not include everything Drescher has written, but it highlights his innovative contributions in a number of different areas. Best known for his work Econocide and other studies of the British abolition of slavery, some of which appear in this collection, this book also contains essays that range farther afield into comparative studies. These contain Drescher’s more recent and often pioneering studies, putting into comparative perspective abolitionist movements that have been studied too frequently in isolation. He also includes a 1997 report card on Eric Williams’s...
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