For almost thirty years JASNA has published essays in Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line that fall within the theme of this special issue, “Beyond the Bit of Ivory: Jane Austen and Diversity.”  This bibliography brings together past essays, from a variety of perspectives, examining the issues of slavery, abolition, and Empire in Jane Austen’s work and the Georgian era.  A number of the papers were presented at Annual General Meetings.  The research and historical perspectives provided in these essays have been a foundation for continuing scholarship.  A good starting point is Ruth Perry’s 1994 essay “Austen and Empire: A Thinking Woman's Guide to British Imperialism” and Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara’s “Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Property, and the British Empire.”  The essays collected here supplement and engage with the new scholarship published in the current issue of Persuasions On-Line.

• Ballinger, Gillian.  “Austen Writing Bristol: The City and Signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma.”  Persuasions On-Line 36.1 (2015). 
• Burns, Margie.  “‘Pride and Prejudice’ and Slavery in America.”  Persuasions On-Line 40.1 (2019). 
• Burns, Melissa.  “Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park: Determining Authorial Intention.”  Persuasions On-Line 26.1 (2005). 
• Capitani, Diane.  “Moral Neutrality in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.”  Persuasions On-Line 23.1 (2002). 
• Clark, Robert.  “Mansfield Park and the Moral Empire.”  Persuasions 36 (2014): 136–50. 
• DeForest, Mary.  “Mrs. Elton and the Slave Trade.”  Persuasions 9 (1987): 11–12. 
• Ford, Susan Allen.  “Fanny’s ‘Great Book’: Macartney’s Embassy to China and Mansfield Park.”  Persuasions On-Line 28.2 (2008). 
• Groenendyk, Kathi.  “Modernizing Mansfield Park: Patricia Rozema’s Spin on Jane Austen.”  Persuasions On-Line 25.1 (2004). 
• Hall, Lynda A.  “Jane Fairfax’s Choice: The Sale of Human Flesh or Human Intellect.”  Persuasions On-Line 28.1 (2007). 
• Harris, Jocelyn.  “Jane Austen and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.”  Persuasions 34 (2012): 134–39. 
• Hemingway, Collins.  “When a Slave Island Does Not Mean Slavery: An Audit of Mrs. Smith’s Encumbered Funds.”  Persuasions 40 (2018): 213–20. 
• Howard-Smith, Stephanie.  “‘Hearty Fow Children’: The Penrhyns, Pugs, and Mansfield Park.”  Persuasions 35 (2013): 191–99. 
• Jones, Christine Kenyon.  “Ambiguous Cousinship: Mansfield Park and the Mansfield Family.”  Persuasions On-Line 31.1 (2010). 
• Kaplan, Laurie.  “The Rushworths of Wimpole Street.”  Persuasions 33 (2011): 202–14. 
• Kelly, Helena.  “Mansfield Park Reconsidered: Pheasants, Game Laws, and the Hidden Critique of Slavery.”  Persuasions 30 (2008): 170–80. 
• Kuwahara, Kuldip Kaur.  “Jane Austen’s Emma and Empire: A Postcolonial View.”  Persuasions On-Line 25.1 (2004). 
• _____.  “Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Property, and the British Empire.”  Persuasions 17 (1995): 106–10. 
• _____.  “Sanditon, Empire, and the Sea: Circles of Influence, Wheels of Power.”  Persuasions 19 (1997): 144–48. 
• Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor.  “From the Polar Seas to Australasia: Jane Austen, ‘English Culture,’ and Regency Orientalism.”  Persuasions On-Line 28.2 (2008). 
• Mellor, Anne K., and Alex L. Milsom.  “Austen’s Fanny Price, Grateful Negroes, and the Stockholm Syndrome.”  Persuasions 34 (2012): 222–35. 
• Morgan, Susan.  “Captain Wentworth, British Imperialism and Personal Romance.”  Persuasions 18 (1996): 88–97. 
• Parry, Sarah.  "Mansfield Park vs. Sotherton Court: Social Status and the Slave Trade."  Persuasions On-Line 35.1 (2014).
• Perkins, Moreland.  “Mansfield Park and Austen’s Reading on Slavery and Imperial Warfare.”  Persuasions On-Line 26.1 (2005). 
• Perry, Ruth.  “Austen and Empire: A Thinking Woman's Guide to British Imperialism.”  Persuasions 16 (1994): 95–106. 
• Sturrock, June.  “Money, Morals, and Mansfield Park: The West Indies Revisited.”  Persuasions 28 (2006): 176–84. 
• Terry, Judith.  “Sir Thomas Bertram’s ‘Business in Antigua.’”  Persuasions 17 (1995): 97–105. 
• Walker, Linda Robinson.  “Jane Austen, the Second Anglo-Msyore War, and Colonel Brandon’s Forcible Circumcision: A Rereading of Sense and Sensibility.”  Persuasions On-Line 34.1 (2013). 
• Wiltshire, John.  “Some Names in Mansfield Park: A Critique of Margaret Anne Doody’s Jane Austen’s Names: Riddles, Persons, Places.”  Persuasions 42 (2020): 218–26.