Download or read book The Routledge History of Slavery written by Gad Heuman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery spanning the last two milennia. With the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the UK just passed, this volume comes at a timely moment. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies the book concentrates on the major advances in the field over the past decades in which the study of slavery has become so prominent.