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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 ...
- Matthias van Rossum
- 2021
The Atlantic slave trade contributed to the activity of many provision and redistribution markets, and enabled the creation of large fortunes that were invested in highly diverse activities and forms of consumption. Both justifications for and abolitionist campaigns against slavery fueled philosophical and religious movements that are at the ...
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
e. The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places.
Research on the intra-American slave trade has gained a renewed interest with publications like Greg O’Malley’s Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807. 96 The same could be said of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean with works like Richard Allen’s European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850. 97 One central debate that has recently been ...
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 ...
Mar 25, 2020 · Millions held in debt bondage. Under this form of slavery, victims are forced to work to pay off a debt. Often the debts continue to pile up, even if the whole family toils for 10 hours a day at ...
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