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A comparison of the two images suggests that the sketch was drawn from memory, and as such it tells us something both about the circulation of slavery and anti-slavery discourses in continental Europe in the late eighteenth century.
The conquest of liberties and the ideology of human rights in the European political space was initially built on the legitimizing of slavery, especially of Africans, by prompting its racialization. Beginning in 1750, the abolitionist movement developed starting from its English origins, combining arguments of an economic, philosophical, and religious nature.
Jun 29, 2021 · In fact, the expansion and development of the pervasive and many-sided informal forms of slavery encountered today seem, to a large extent, to have taken place during the early modern expansion of commodified legal regimes of slavery and slave trading across the globe, especially in those environments where formal slavery occurred alongside and in interaction with existing local and informal ...
Sep 29, 2017 · Structure of contributions to this collection. The essays in this collection aim at tracing intellectual, political, and literary entanglements of Germany with slave economies in the transatlantic world. The first three essays examine the economic, religious, and cultural points of contact German traders, missionaries, and immigrants had with ...
- Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Pia Wiegmink
- 2017
Dec 20, 2022 · The project has been supported by research and funding from a diverse range of sources, including the International Bar Association and the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens programme. Of the 500 case studies, 180 relate directly to colonial and slavery-era legacies. They range from the island of Gorée in Senegal, to the Coolela ...
Jun 23, 2023 · Contains chapters on Islamic slavery to 1500, slavery in late medieval Europe (this has been reprinted in Damian Alan Pargas and Felicia Roşu, eds., Critical Readings on Global Slavery, Volume 2 [Leiden: Brill, 2017]), and slavery in sub-Saharan Africa to 1650. It also has chapters on early Atlantic slavery, including connections between Africa, the Atlantic islands, and Iberia.
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The history of Atlantic slavery is tightly linked to that of European colonization of the rest of the world that went hand in hand with the production of Eurocentric knowledge. European global voyages, ca. 1400, were largely motivated by commerce and later colonization that meant economic and political control over new resources, territories, and their inhabitants.
