Author: Alessandro Stanziani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317320131
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of numerous societies which continues even today.
Author: Alessandro Stanziani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131732014X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of numerous societies which continues even today.
Author: David Eltis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521840686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777
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The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Author: Mary Ann Fay
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137597550
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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This edited volume determines where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that have been developed to analyze it. To that end, the authors focus on a question about Islamic slavery that has frequently been asked but not answered satisfactorily, namely, what is Islamic about slavery in the Islamic world. Through the fields of history, sociology, literature, women's studies, African studies, and comparative slavery studies, this book is an important contribution to the scholarly research on slavery in the Islamic lands, which continues to be understudied and under-represented in global slavery studies.
Author: Milton Meltzer
Publisher: New York : Cowles Book Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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The life, hardships, struggles, punishments, pleasures and revolts of slaves from ancient times.
Author: Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and credit systems reaching across the Atlantic Ocean. The author details the anatomy of slave supply chains and the chains of credit and commodities that intersected with them in virtually every corner of the pre–Civil War United States, and explores how an institution that destroyed lives and families contributed greatly to the growth of the expanding republic’s capitalist economy.
Author: Noel Lenski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108607403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
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The practice of slavery has been common across a variety of cultures around the globe and throughout history. Despite the multiplicity of slavery's manifestations, many scholars have used a simple binary to categorize slave-holding groups as either 'genuine slave societies' or 'societies with slaves'. This dichotomy, as originally proposed by ancient historian Moses Finley, assumes that there were just five 'genuine slave societies' in all of human history: ancient Greece and Rome, and the colonial Caribbean, Brazil, and the American South. This book interrogates this bedrock of comparative slave studies and tests its worth. Assembling contributions from top specialists, it demonstrates that the catalogue of five must be expanded and that the model may need to be replaced with a more flexible system that emphasizes the notion of intensification. The issue is approached as a question, allowing for debate between the seventeen contributors about how best to conceptualize the comparative study of human bondage.
Author: Julie M. Svalastog
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004446214
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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An account of the emergence of England’s earliest chartered Africa companies and their traders. It questions the interaction between company and private interests and their mutual impact on the emerging Atlantic of the seventeenth century and beyond.
Author: Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351671332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
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The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin. The study explores the conceptual problems of studying slavery in Africa and the broader Atlantic world from a perspective that focuses on Africa and the historical context that accounts for this influence. Paul Lovejoy focuses on the parameters of the enforced migration of enslaved Africans, including the impact on civilian populations in Africa, constraints on migration, and the importance of women and children in the movement of people who were enslaved. The prevalence of slavery in Africa and the transformations of social and political formations of societies and political structures during the era of trans-Atlantic migration inform the book’s research. The analysis places Africa, specifically western Africa, at the center of historical change, not on the frontier or periphery of western Europe or the Americas, and provides a global perspective that reconsiders historical reconstruction of the Atlantic world that challenges the distortions of Eurocentrism and national histories. Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa will be of interest to scholars and students of colonial history, African history, Diaspora Studies, the Black Atlantic and the history of slavery.
Author: Paulin Ismard
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674660072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to ancient Athens, where the functioning of civic government depended on skilled, knowledgeable experts who were literally public servants—slaves owned by the city-state rather than by private citizens.
