Search results
Sep 12, 2022 · Modern slavery shoots up by 10 million in five years Getty Images Modern slavery is a growing challenge thanks to a mix of armed conflict, climate change and the global pandemic, a new UN report says.
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
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.
People also ask
How did Germans participate in slavery?
Who brought facts about slavery to the German public?
Was Germany part of the history of New World Slavery?
Did Germany participate in the transatlantic slave trade?
How did inequalities in development affect the abolition of slavery?
How did slave enslavement occur?
The past and present of slavery: a history in the making. 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.
