Periodic Reporting for period 2 - Shades of Black (The Darker Shades of Black. The Value of Skin Colour in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Slave and Labour Markets, 1750-1886)

At the beginning, the objective of my project was to examine how the skin colour (as described by the sources) of captives, slaves and people under other forms of serfdom affected their value in economic transactions before and after the legal abolition of slavery in the...