A Global Struggle to Abolish Slavery 

A global struggle for freedom, fought with ships, laws, and ideals. 

Are there historical board games that explore the rise of human rights? Yes! Pax Emancipation takes you to the heart of the Enlightenment, where you play as a reformer leading the global abolitionist movement. Through a mix of politics, naval strategy, and grassroots activism, you’ll work to dismantle the transatlantic slave trade, one law, one region, one rebellion at a time.

Send warships to challenge colonial powers. Influence imperial courts to pass abolition laws. Support resistance movements across three continents. With solo, co-op, and competitive modes, Pax Emancipation is both a historically grounded simulation and a compelling strategic experience.

Why should you purchase Pax Emancipation?

• Lead the abolitionist cause: Influence politics, command ships, and support uprisings

• Rich historical theme: Based on real events during the Enlightenment and beyond

• Multiple play modes: Solo, cooperative, or competitive gameplay for 1–3 players

• Strategic depth meets historical simulation: Balance ideals with tactics across a global map

Game designer: Phil Eklund

Artist: Karim Chakroun, Johanna Petterson

Complexity: 4.50

How to play Pax Emancipation?

Assign warships to blockade slave ports or intercept slave ships, install missions, trading posts, and colonies in foreign lands steeped in serfdom, challenge the institution of slavery on moral and legal grounds in courts, and sanction underground railroads, slave revolts and revolutions. Play in cooperative-competitive, cooperative, or solitaire modes. If victorious, you achieve the greatest political accomplishment in history: making slavery everywhere illegal.

• Rulebooks
• Cards
• Map
• Finance boards
• Custom meeples
• Custom tokens
• Cubes
• Disks
• Dice

Downloads

Game designer: Phil Eklund

Living rules and other files, administrated by respective game designer.

• DOWNLOADABLE RULES Pax Emancipation
• Playtest Pax Emancipation on Tabletop Simulator
• Board Game Geek Pax Emancipation

Videos

• Pax Emancipation — game overview at SPIEL '18 by BoardGameGeek
• Unboxing Pax Emancipation by Bored Online? Board Offline!
• Pax Emancipation 3p Teaching & Play-through by Heavy Cardboard
• How to play Pax Emancipation by Ion Game Design 
• Daily Game Unboxing - Pax Emancipation by The Dice Tower
• Unboxing -Bored Online? Board Offline!
• Gameplay Part 1 -Bored Online? Board Offline!
• Gameplay Part 2 -Bored Online? Board Offline!
• Gameplay Part 3 -Bored Online? Board Offline!
• How to Play Part 1 -Bored Online? Board Offline!
• How to Play Part 2 -Bored Online? Board Offline!
• Pax Emancipation - part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4 by Ricky Royal