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Slavery is a topic of enormous historical importance. It continues to resonate across the twentieth century in film and literature. This companion provides a unique compendium of essential facts and figures on the interlinked issues of slavery, emancipation and civil rights. It gives the essential background to the defining fate of the African diaspora in the Americas and the carribean from the 15th to the 20th centuries. The Long-running resistance against slavery in the Americas and the Carribean, including the Haitian revoultion is clearly covered, as is the abolitionist movement in Britain. The companion explores the American Civil War and emancipation and finally the black civil rights movement in the United States, the Carribean and South America, including a comparative chronology of apartheid in South Africa.