The Cambridge World History of Slavery

Editors

Craig Perry, Emory University, Atlanta
Craig Perry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. His research on slavery in the medieval Middle East has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Oxford University, and the Foundation for Jewish Culture.

David Eltis, Emory University, Atlanta
David Eltis is Emeritus Professor of History at Emory University, and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Universities. He is author of four prize-winning books and articles on slavery and the slave trade.

Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester, New York
Stanley L. Engerman is Emeritus Professor of Economics and former Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities, and has written over one hundred essays and co-authored or co- edited 25 books on slavery and related subjects. He is a recipient of the Bancroft Prize and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

David Richardson, University of Hull
David Richardson is founder and former director (2004-2012) of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, Hull. He has held visiting positions at Harvard and Yale Universities. He has written extensively on transatlantic slavery and its impacts and more recently on contemporary slavery in historical perspective. He authored (with David Eltis) the award winning Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale, 2010).

Contributors

Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, David Richardson, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hussein Fancy, Michal Biran, Hannah Barker, Judith Evans Grubbs, Shaun Marmon, Steven A. Epstein, Don J. Wyatt, Seung B. Kye, Leslie C. Orr, Matthew S. Gordon; Ali Anooshahr, Stephan Conermann, Nur Sobers-Khan, Alice Rio, Noel Lenski, David Wyatt, Debra Blumenthal, Paul J. Lane, Camilla Townsend