Daring to Be Free

A revelatory history of enslaved people's resistance and self-emancipation, across the Atlantic world and beyond. The ending of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery by European powers during the nineteenth century is generally told as the work of enlightened liberals. Sudhir Hazareesingh turns this narrative on its head, showing the extraordinary degree to which the enslaved resisted their oppressors and emancipated themselves. Daring to Be Free portrays the struggle for liberation from