James Walvin is an Emeritus Professor of History, having taught for many years at the University of York. His extensive publications focus on the history of slavery and the slave trade, for which he received the prestigious Martin Luther King Memorial Prize. He has also explored the history of football, with a pioneering book remaining in print over thirty years after its initial publication. Walvin's works are valued for their deep historical insight and meticulous research.
'Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resistance. In time, their defiance was to prove the crucial final factor in bringing down slavery itself.' James Walvin, in Freedom
A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world