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The Journal of Global Slavery (JGS) aims to advance and promote a greater understanding of slavery and post-slavery from comparative, transregional, and/or global perspectives, as well as methodological and theoretical aspects of its study. It especially underscores the global and globalizing nature of slavery in world history.
As a practice in which human beings were held captive for an indefinite period of time, coerced into extremely dependent and exploitative power relationships, denied rights (including potentially rights over their labor, lives, and bodies), could be bought and sold, were vulnerable to forced relocation by various means, and forced to labor against their will, slavery in one form or another has existed in innumerable societies throughout history. JGS fosters a global view of slavery by integrating the latest scholarship from around the world and providing an interdisciplinary platform for scholars working on slavery in regions as diverse as ancient Rome, Pre-Colombian Mexico, Han dynasty China, the Ottoman Empire, the antebellum United States, and twenty-first-century Mali.
The journal also promotes a view of slavery as a globalizing force in the development of world civilizations. Global history focuses heavily upon the global movement of people, goods, and ideas, with a particular emphasis on processes of integration and divergence in the human experience. Slavery straddles all of these focal points, as it connected and integrated various societies through economic and power-based relationships, and simultaneously divided societies by class, race, ethnicity, and cultural group.
JGS is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles based on original research, book reviews, short notes and communications, and special issues. It especially invites articles that situate studies of slavery (whether historical or modern-day forms) in explicitly comparative, transregional, and/or global contexts. Themes may include (but are not limited to):
• the different and changing social, cultural, and legal meanings of slavery across time and space;
• the roles that slavery has played in the development of intersecting and interdependent relationships between societies throughout world history;
• comparative practices of enslavement (through warfare, indebtedness, trade, etc.);
• human trafficking and forced migration;
• transregional dialogues and the movement of ideas and practices of slavery and anti-slavery across space;
• slave cultures and cultural transfer;
• political, economic, and ideological causes and effects of slavery;
• religion and slavery;
• resistance;
• abolition, emancipation, and manumission practices from global or comparative perspectives;
• the psychological effects, memories, legacies, and representations of slave practices.
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Ismael M. Montana, Northern Illinois University (USA)
Book Review Editor
Viola Müller, Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands)
Area Editors
Sub-Saharan Africa (contemporary): Eric Hahonou, University of Roskilde (Denmark)
Sub-Saharan Africa (historical): Olatunji Ojo, Brock University (Canada)
Asia: Kerry Ward, Rice University (USA)
Near East and North Africa: Ismael M. Montana, Northern Illinois University (USA)
Europe/Mediterranean: Jeff Fynn-Paul, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Americas (North): Damian Alan Pargas, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Americas (Latin America): Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine (USA)
Americas (Caribbean): Michael L. Dickinson, Virginia Commonwealth University (USA)
Advisory Board
Omar H. Ali, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (USA)
Jean Allain, Monash University (Australia)
Richard B. Allen, Framingham State University (USA)
Edward A. Alpers, UCLA (USA)
Catherine Armstrong, Loughborough University (UK)
Manuel Barcia, University of Bath (UK)
Felicitas Becker, University of Cambridge (UK)
Abdelilah Benmlih, University of Fès (Morocco)
Debra Blumenthal, UC-Santa Barbara (USA)
Marcus Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil)
Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College (USA)
Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
Richard Eaton, University of Arizona (USA)
Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester (USA)
Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University (USA)
Ana Frega, Universidad de la República, Montevideo (Uruguay)
Jennifer Glancy, Le Moyne College (USA)
Jesús Guanche Peréz, Universidad de Habana (Cuba)
Milton Guran, Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil)
Stefan Hanβ, The University of Manchester (UK)
Luuk de Ligt, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Paul Lovejoy, York University (Canada)
Aurelia Martín Casares, University of Granada (Spain)
Joseph C. Miller†, University of Virginia (USA)
Beatrice Nicolini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy)
Ugo Nwokeji, University of California – Berkeley (USA)
Joel Quirk, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Junius P. Rodriguez, Eureka College (USA)
Robert Ross, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
John David Smith, University of North Carolina – Charlotte (USA)
Ehud R. Toledano, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Konstantinos Vlassopoulos, University of Nottingham (UK)
Holger Weiss, Abo Akademie University (Finland)
Nigel Worden, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
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Oran Kennedy, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Thomas Mareite, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
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Paul E. Lovejoy Prize
Brill and the editorial team of the Journal of Global Slavery are pleased to provide an annual prize of €500 for excellence and originality in a major work (defined as a monograph or feature documentary) on any theme related to global slavery.
The Paul E. Lovejoy Prize is named after the esteemed slavery scholar and distinguished professor of African Studies and African Diasporic Studies at York University in Canada. The author of more than thirty books and a hundred articles, Lovejoy pioneered new approaches to the historical study of slavery in West Africa and its diasporic communities, and played a critical role in revealing the interconnectedness between various African, Atlantic and Islamic systems of enslavement in the early modern and modern periods. He was the founding Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and a former board member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Routes Project “Resistance, Liberty, Heritage” from 1996 to 2012.
Submissions for the Lovejoy Prize must be in English (in the case of documentaries they may be subtitled in English) and accompanied by a cover letter. For submission of monographs, please send both a digital version (E-Book or pdf) and a hard copy. All digital files should be submitted to Ismael Montana and Damian Pargas. Hard copies of books should be mailed to Ismael Montana, Associate Professor & Assistant Chair, Department of History, Northern Illinois University, Zulauf 616, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA. For more information, please contact Ismael Montana or Damian Pargas. The Journal of Global Slavery appoints a jury consisting of 3-4 members, who are all active and prominent scholars in their fields, for a one-year period (renewable to a max of three years). The jury is headed by the editor in chief of the journal.
Prize Winners
Prize Winner 2024
The Journal of Global Slavery is pleased to announce this year’s Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of slavery studies published in 2023 is awarded to Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa for their excellent monograph Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire (Oakland: University of California Press, 2023).
Prize Winner 2023
The Journal of Global Slavery is pleased to announce this year’s Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of slavery studies published in 2022 is awarded to Michael Lawrence Dickinson for his excellent monograph Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807 (University of Georgia Press, 2022). Drawing from first-person accounts of African-born captives in North America and the Caribbean, this book astutely engages with Orlando Patterson’s concept “social death” and argues that urban environments provided unique barriers to and avenues for social rebirth among the enslaved.
Prize Winner 2022
The Journal of Global Slavery is pleased to announce this year’s Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of slavery studies published in 2021 is awarded to Zach Sell for his excellent monograph Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). In this meticulously researched study—which draws from archival material from all over the world, including England, India, Australia, Belize, and the United States—Sell examines the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the British Empire and Black emancipation in the United States.
Prize Winner 2020
The Journal of Global Slavery is pleased to announce this year’s Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for the best scholarly work in the field of slavery published in 2020 is awarded to Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds) for his excellent monograph The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-century Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press, 2020). Among the other strengths of this book is Barcia’s ability to amass disparate sources across the circum-Atlantic to lucidly reconstruct and advance our understanding of the medical history of the Atlantic slave trade in ways that would inspire future scholars for generations to come.
Prize Winners 2019
The first annual Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for the best academic work on the study of slavery published in 2019 is awarded to Hannah Barker, Arizona State University. Her fantastic book That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 (University of Pennsylvania Press) was unanimously chosen as the winner by an independent jury, which praised Barker's impressive command of the source material and the masterful way she reveals a "common culture of slavery" between various late-medieval Mediterranean societies.
An honorable mention is awarded to Lola Goma for her powerful documentary film Legacies of Slavery in Niger (2019). The Journal of Global Slavery encourages its readers to view the film here.
Journal of Global Slavery
Search for other papers by Ismael M. Montana in
Current site
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5 Year Impact Factor: 0,7
Read all about the Journal of Global Slavery's Paul E. Lovejoy Prize and the award winners in the award tab below.
Inquiries and correspondence relating to book reviews should be sent to Viola Müller, Book Review Editor. Contact information for the Editorial Office may be found in the Instructions for Authors, located under the "Submit Article" tab below.
As of 2025, the journal will appear as e-only.
The Journal of Global Slavery (JGS) aims to advance and promote a greater understanding of slavery and post-slavery from comparative, transregional, and/or global perspectives, as well as methodological and theoretical aspects of its study. It especially underscores the global and globalizing nature of slavery in world history.
As a practice in which human beings were held captive for an indefinite period of time, coerced into extremely dependent and exploitative power relationships, denied rights (including potentially rights over their labor, lives, and bodies), could be bought and sold, were vulnerable to forced relocation by various means, and forced to labor against their will, slavery in one form or another has existed in innumerable societies throughout history. JGS fosters a global view of slavery by integrating the latest scholarship from around the world and providing an interdisciplinary platform for scholars working on slavery in regions as diverse as ancient Rome, Pre-Colombian Mexico, Han dynasty China, the Ottoman Empire, the antebellum United States, and twenty-first-century Mali.
The journal also promotes a view of slavery as a globalizing force in the development of world civilizations. Global history focuses heavily upon the global movement of people, goods, and ideas, with a particular emphasis on processes of integration and divergence in the human experience. Slavery straddles all of these focal points, as it connected and integrated various societies through economic and power-based relationships, and simultaneously divided societies by class, race, ethnicity, and cultural group.
JGS is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles based on original research, book reviews, short notes and communications, and special issues. It especially invites articles that situate studies of slavery (whether historical or modern-day forms) in explicitly comparative, transregional, and/or global contexts. Themes may include (but are not limited to):
• the different and changing social, cultural, and legal meanings of slavery across time and space;
• the roles that slavery has played in the development of intersecting and interdependent relationships between societies throughout world history;
• comparative practices of enslavement (through warfare, indebtedness, trade, etc.);
• human trafficking and forced migration;
• transregional dialogues and the movement of ideas and practices of slavery and anti-slavery across space;
• slave cultures and cultural transfer;
• political, economic, and ideological causes and effects of slavery;
• religion and slavery;
• resistance;
• abolition, emancipation, and manumission practices from global or comparative perspectives;
• the psychological effects, memories, legacies, and representations of slave practices.
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