Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World
1st Edition
Edited
By Beth R. Wilson, Emily West
December 02, 2024
This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion. Combining methods from the history of emotions with those from slavery studies often for the first time, this collection provides new and important perspectives on the role that emotion played in various ...
Slavery and Europe: Exploring the Economic Impact of Atlantic Slavery
1st Edition
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By Tamira Combrink, Matthias van Rossum
May 27, 2024
The question of the impact of slavery has gained new importance in debates on the history of economic development, capitalism and inequality. This edited volume explores how Atlantic slaved-based economic activities and their spin-offs have contributed to the economic development of Europe. The ...
Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia
1st Edition
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By Edward A. Alpers, Gwyn Campbell, Michael Salman
April 27, 2016
This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a region stretching from Southern and Eastern Africa to the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and the Far East. Slavery studies have traditionally ...
Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838
1st Edition
By Henrice Altink
April 24, 2014
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and...
Abolition and Its Aftermath in the Indian Ocean Africa and Asia
1st Edition
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By Gwyn Campbell
September 18, 2012
This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a region stretching from Southern and Eastern Africa to the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and the Far East. Slavery studies have traditionally ...
Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia
1st Edition
By Gwyn Campbell
September 15, 2003
The abolition of slavery in and around the Western Indian Ocean have been little studied. This collection examines the meaning of slavery and its abolition in relation to specific indigenous societies and to Islam, a religion that embraced the entire region, and draws comparisons between similar ...
Classical Slavery
1st Edition
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By Moses I. Finley
May 16, 2003
Slavery in Greece and Rome has always prompted comparisons with that of more recent history. This volume includes discussions of the relationship between war, piracy and slavery, early abolitionist movements as well as the supply and domestic aspects of slavery in these ancient societies....
Representing the Body of the Slave
1st Edition
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By Jane Gardner, Thomas Wiedemann
August 31, 2002
From the ancient world through to modern times the bodies of slaves have been represented in literature, documentary and personal narrative writing, and in art. This volume presents evidence of the past sins of mankind in both art and literature....
Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil
1st Edition
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By Edna G. Bay, Kristin Mann
September 01, 2001
As a result of new research, we can now paint a more complex picture of peoples and cultures in the south Atlantic, from the earliest period of the slave trade up to the present. The nine papers in this volume indicate that a dynamic and continuous movement of peoples east as well as west across ...
After Slavery: Emancipation and its Discontents
1st Edition
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By Howard Temperley
August 31, 2000
A collection of essays in which every contributor focuses upon some aspect of slave emancipation with the aim of assessing to what extent the outcome met with expectation. The hopes and disappointments that characterized the transition from slavery to freedom are depicted....
From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World
1st Edition
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By Sylvia R. Frey, Betty Wood
May 31, 1999
This collection examines the effects of slavery and emancipation on race, class and gender in societies of the American South, the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa. The contributors discuss what slavery has to teach us about patterns of adjustment and change, black identity and the extent ...
Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa
1st Edition
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By Martin A. Klein, Suzanne Miers
November 01, 1998
This book brings together a series of new case studies, some by young scholars, others by widely published authors. All are based on original research and designed to enhance our understanding of the process of the abolition of slavery in Africa at the grass-roots level. Part of the studies are on...