Introduction to Modern Slavery

Since the 1990s, modern slavery has been recognized as a global problem, with campaigners around the world providing assessments of its nature and extent, its drivers, and possible solutions for ending it.

The Voice of Survivors

However, largely absent from the global antislavery movement's discourse and policy prescriptions are the voices of survivors of slavery themselves. Survivors' authentic voices are underemployed vital tools in the fight against modern slavery in all its forms.

Exploring Slave Narratives

Through close readings of over 200 contemporary slave narratives, Andrea Nicholson repositions the history of the genre and exposes the conditions and consequences of slavery, and the challenges survivors face in liberation.

The Importance of Narratives

Far from the trope of capture, enslavement, escape, she argues that narratives are rich and vitally important sources that enable the antislavery community to gain important insights and build more effective interventions.