09.10.2020

New publication "'Wer helfen kann, der helfe!' Deutsche SklavereigegnerInnen und die atlantische Abolitionsbewegung, 1780–1860" by Sarah Lentz

The historical study shows that between the end of the 18th and the middle of the 19th century German activists formed more and more networks with abolitionists in the Atlantic region and brought their own critical statements on slavery into the cross-border discourse. The study on German anti-slavery activists not only expands and changes the view of the abolitionist movement as a historical cross-border phenomenon, but also of the German region as part of the so-called Atlantic hinterland.

The publication is available in open access or as hardcover on the publisher's website.




Sarah Lentz is a research associate and postdoc in the Arbeitsgruppe Frühe Neuzeit at the University of Bremen. Her seven-month doctoral fellowship at the IEG in 2017 contributed to the development of the dissertation.

Sarah Lentz
»Wer helfen kann, der helfe!«
Deutsche SklavereigegnerInnen und die atlantische Abolitionsbewegung, 1780–1860
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Band 261: Abt. Universalgeschichte
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020
ISBN 978-3-88467- 310-2
DOI: 10.13109/9783666360992