The objective of this conference is to discuss the multiple faces of slavery of women and girls in America and Africa, from a comparative, regional or local perspective. We welcome communications that address, among others, the following topics: sources for the study of slavery; theoretical and methodological perspectives; forms of enslavement; social, economic and political experiences; religion and slavery; life trajectories; forms of labour exploitation; marriage, family, childhood and motherhood; body and sexuality; slavery, rights and justice; slavery and material culture; intercontinental and regional slave trade; collective or individual resistance strategies; abolitionism; post-abolition societies; marginalisation and citizenship; social memories of slavery.