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The particular experience of enslaved women, across different cultures and many different eras is the focus of this work.
Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821417258
The particular experience of enslaved women, across different cultures and many different eras is the focus of this work.
Author : David Eltis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521840686
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Author : David Eltis
Publisher :
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521840678
In this volume, leading scholars provide essay-length coverage of slavery in a wide variety of medieval contexts around the globe.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793648298
People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most painful experiences, and no one was guaranteed exemption from it. High-ranking nobles and royalties were often the victims of imprisonment and, at times, had to wait many years until their ransom was paid. Similarly, slavery existed throughout Christian Europe and in the Arab world. However, while imprisonment occasionally proved to be the catalyst for major writings and creativity, slaves in the Ottoman empire and in Egypt succeeded in rising to the highest position in society (Janissaries, Mamluks, and others).
Author : Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 885 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1851097880
This work is the first encyclopedia on the labor practices that constitute modern-day slavery—and the individuals and organizations working today to eradicate them. Slavery in the Modern World: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression helps bring to light an often-ignored tragedy, opening readers' eyes to the devastated lives of those coerced into unpaid labor. It is the first and only comprehensive encyclopedia on practices that persist despite the efforts of antislavery advocates, nongovernmental organizations, and national legislation aimed at ending them. Ranging from the late-19th century to the present, Slavery in the Modern World examines the full extent of unfree labor practices in use today, as well as contemporary abolitionists and antislavery groups fighting these practices and legislative action from various nations aimed at exposing and shutting down slave operations and networks. The 450 alphabetically organized entries are the work of over 125 of the world's leading experts on modern slavery.
Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 1998-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081471904X
Explores the stories of African Muslim slaves in the New World. The author argues that although Islam as brought by the Africans did not outlive the last slaves, "what they wrote on the sands of the plantations is a successful story of strength, resilience, courage, pride, and dignity." She discusses Christian Europeans, African Muslims, the Atlantic slave trade, literacy, revolts, and the Muslim legacy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 1997-12
Category : History
ISBN :
The first work of its kind to document slavery on a global scale, The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery is a two volume set that provides an in depth portrayal of human bondage and the slave trade from ancient times to the present. The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery presents 700 topics of world slavery in 500- to 1,500-word entries that are extensively cross-referenced with bibliographical citations for further research. The encyclopedia contains 100 illustrations, with maps accompanying core essays involving specific geographic locations. Biographies portray the lives of notable figures such as the remarkable life of the fugitive slave, nurse, spy, and abolitionist Harriet Tubman; Mali's ninth ruler, Mansa Musa; and the early ruler of Kievan Russia, Laroslav the Wise. This is the first work of its kind to document slavery on a global scale and is an essential addition to every reference collection. Academic, high school, and public libraries, as well as genealogists, historical societies, and museum reference collections, will find this an invaluable resource on the topic of slavery throughout the world. Presents 700 topics of world slavery in 500 to 1,500 word entries that are extensively cross referenced with bibliographical citations for further research Biographies portray the lives of notable figures such as Harriet Tubman, Mansa Musa, Laroslav the Wise 100 illustrations, with maps accompanying core essays involving specific geographic locations
Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1780232047
We all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas. But much of the writing on the subject has focused on the European traders and the arrival of slaves in North America. In Crossings, eminent historian James Walvin covers these established territories while also traveling back to the story’s origins in Africa and south to Brazil, an often forgotten part of the triangular trade, in an effort to explore the broad sweep of slavery across the Atlantic. Reconstructing the transatlantic slave trade from an extensive archive of new research, Walvin seeks to understand and describe how the trade began in Africa, the terrible ordeals experienced there by people sold into slavery, and the scars that remain on the continent today. Journeying across the ocean, he shows how Brazilian slavery was central to the development of the slave trade itself, as that country tested techniques and methods for trading and slavery that were successfully exported to the Caribbean and the rest of the Americas in the following centuries. Walvin also reveals the answers to vital questions that have never before been addressed, such as how a system that the Western world came to despise endured so long and how the British—who were fundamental in developing and perfecting the slave trade—became the most prominent proponents of its eradication. The most authoritative history of the entire slave trade to date, Crossings offers a new understanding of one of the most important, and tragic, episodes in world history.
Author : Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1139475045
Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of all races across the world would be immeasurably improved by their enslavement? In the Old South but in no other slave society a doctrine emerged among leading clergymen, politicians, and intellectuals - 'Slavery in the Abstract', which declared enslavement the best possible condition for all labor regardless of race. They joined the Socialists, whom they studied, in believing that the free-labor system, wracked by worsening class warfare, was collapsing. A vital question: to what extent did the people of the several social classes of the South accept so extreme a doctrine? That question lies at the heart of this book.
Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0195339444
Davis begins with the dramatic "Amistad" case, and then looks at slavery in the American South and the abolitionists who defeated one of human history's greatest evils.