Slavery: annual bibliographical supplement (2018)

Abstract

For 2018 the bibliography continues its coverage of secondary writings published since 1900 in western European languages on slavery or the slave trade anywhere in the world: monographs, notes and articles in scholarly periodicals, substantial reviews and review essays, dissertations, conference papers, and chapters in edited volumes and Festschriften focused primarily on slavery or slave trading. Readers unfamiliar with other technical aspects of the presentation may refer to the notes introducing previous supplements in this journal. Full bibliographic references to edited collections of essays and conference proceedings appear under editors’ names, with cross references to their contents under the names of contributing authors in sections of the bibliography specific to their separate topics and different from the placing of the volume as a whole. The corresponding individual entries provide short-title references to the full collective entry. A special thank you and acknowledgement to Professor Joseph C. Miller who died this year. This bibliography grew out of a course he taught at the University of Virginia in the 1970s and when published as Slavery: A Comparative Teaching Bibliography in 1977 it consisted of 1645 entries. Although, with great trepidation, I took over the annual compilation of the bibliography in 2004, Joe was never uninvolved in its production. Every year he’d send me entries that he’d come across during his research, some of which are included in this latest compilation, and every chance we had we’d get together and talk bibliography talk, something only bibliographers can do with any genuine enthusiasm. Joe was a wonderful friend and mentor: always excited to share his latest work and to hear of mine, always friendly and gracious, and always with that Joe Miller sparkle in his eye. This will be the first bibliography I’ll have submitted without cc’ing Joe. I will miss him.*