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During the first European globalization, the slave trade imparted the Atlantic world with its main distinctive feature in the form of American métissage, whose sociocultural effects are still being felt today in former slave trading powers following migratory flows.
Dec 20, 2022 · 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 Monument in Mozambique, to the Josephine Bonaparte statue in Martinique, to Valongo Wharf in Brazil, and more than a dozen sites in continental Europe.
Jun 29, 2021 · Abstract. This article argues that we need to move beyond the “Atlantic” and “formal” bias in our understanding of the history of slavery. It explores ways forward toward developing a better understanding of the long-term global transformations of slavery.
It also reveals the extent to which visions of the slave Atlantic took root in the consciousness of Europeans of whom we might presume that they were at best observers of, and not party to, the traffic in human lives and the exploitation of human bodies that the pictures critique.
Sep 29, 2017 · This essay aims at bringing together research on Germany’s colonial past and imperialist endeavors with current trends in scholarship in Atlantic history and slavery studies.
- Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Pia Wiegmink
- 2017
Over the past six decades, the historiography of Atlantic slavery and the slave trade has shown remarkable growth and sophistication. Historians have marshalled a vast array of sources and offered rich and compelling explanations for these two great tragedies in human history.
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Slavery represents a dark and unclosed page in the history of mankind. Even if legally abolished by all countries of the world, its legacies shape the present in a plurality of ways and often overlap with the phenomena that scholars, activists and policy-makers target as new slaveries.
