Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem

Building on her distinguished record of publications, Suzanne Miers carefully traces the development of the international antislavery movement during the last century. She assiduously chronicles the campaigns of the London-based Anti-Slavery Society (now AntiSlavery International) within changing systems of international power. — Seymour Drescher, (University of Pittsburgh)

Emerita Suzanne Miers of Ohio University has capped her careerlong interest in slavery with a masterpiece of historical research. — Anthony Q. Cheeseboro

Her willingness to tackle this vast subject, to approach it from a truly global perspective, and to probe the complex forces that have shaped national and international responses to slavery and forced labor make for a work that will be the standard study of twentieth-century slavery and abolition for many years to come. Equally important, it will also be a major guide to the problems, questions, and issues that future research on slavery and forced labor in the contemporary world will need to explore and address.

A major guide to the problems, questions, an dissues that future research on slavery and forced labor in the contemporary world will need to explore and address.

Suzanne Miers is one of the leading authorities on the slave trade in Africa. This long-awaited book is based on a wide range of archival sources and is a balanced enquiry into the question of slavery not only in Africa but in Arabia and the Gulf. It is a fine work, comprehensive in scope, exact in detail, and illustrative of one of the great themes in human history. — Wm Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin

Slavery in the Twentieth Century is the bridge that links the extensive scholarship of historical slavery and the growing literature on contemporary slavery. This an invaluable service and the foundation for an expanded social and historical discipline of slavery studies, one that transcends the current focus on slavery in the anti-bellum American south. . . . As a textbook it was excellent, well-written, well-organized, and with sections that could stand alone as needed.