Volume 75 Issue 10 October 2025

‘Representation of an Insurrection on board a Slave-Ship’, by Carl Bernhard Wadström, 1794. Beinecke Library, Yale University. Public Domain.

Slavery After Abolition: Revolt on the Amelia

The slave trade was an international criminal enterprise. In 1811 an uprising on the slaving ship Amelia off the coast of West Africa revealed a complex network spanning four continents.

Zoroaster, 19th-century Indian illustration. Heritage Images/TopFoto.

Zoroastrians in the Great Game

In the early 1900s the small but influential Zoroastrian community in India contemplated establishing a colony in Iran. Could the Parsis rely on British support?