Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)

Manumission―the act of freeing a slave while the institution of slavery continues―has received relatively little scholarly attention as compared to other aspects of slavery and emancipation.

To address this gap, editors Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J.

Sparks present a volume of essays that comprise the first-ever comparative study of manumission as it affected slave systems on both sides of the Atlantic.