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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 ...
May 30, 2024 · These countries were involved both through the slave trade itself and through ownership of overseas plantations. Regarding Germany or German-speaking territories, it seems that German players were not involved in any of this. Thanks to a growing movement in Germany in recent years, which wants to expose the historically grown and still present ...
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
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 ...
Feb 28, 2021 · How important was the slavery system to Europe?: Slavery & Abolition: Vol 42 , No 1 - Get Access. Slavery & Abolition. A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies. Volume 42, 2021 - Issue 1: Europe and Slavery: Revisiting the Impact of Slave-Based Activities on European Economies, 1500-1850. Guest Editors: Tamira Combrink & Matthias van Rossum.
The “individuality” of antique slavery, in view of the mass enslavement of women, children, and prisoners of war in kin-slaveries and worldwide with the rise of other slaveries “without the name of slavery”, and in cultures with different norms, is rather a product on the one hand of the process of the sharper characterization of antique slave status in Roman law, and on the other hand ...
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