… of who Wang Xitian was, and why he mattered to the Empire of Japan. It reveals how Wang’s life overlapped with … bridged two previously dichotomized worlds at the empire’s core, and was representative of how the historically … about the amount of tension and insecurity present in the Empire of Japan around these “anti-Japanese foreigners” like …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… century Colombia; slavery and the law in the Spanish empire; and the history of Indian and black royalists in … University and author of Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain (Cornell, 2012). He is a member … from their similar origins in the expansion of England’s empire to 1838, when slavery ended in Jamaica and South …