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"L'esclave, tel qu'on se le représente généralement c'est tantôt l'homme-bétail de l'Antiquité, pliant le genou sous les coups de fouet des pharaons, tantôt l'homme-machine de l'époque contemporaine, chaînes aux pieds dans les plantations de coton nord-américaines... Quant au Moyen Âge, on l'a longtemps cru réservé à un autre type de subordination, celle du serf; attaché à la terre et au seigneur. Or, à rebours de ces idées reçues, la chute de l'Empire romain est loin d'avoir marqué la fin de l'esclavage. Bien au contraire, les nombreux conflits du temps, des intrusions mongoles aux raids vikings, ont assuré la pérennité de cet asservissement de l'homme par l'homme : du bassin méditerranéen aux confins septentrionaux en passant par les terres byzantines, l'esclavage fut un phénomène très largement répandu durant les mille ans que dura l'époque médiévale. Slaves transitant vers les contrées méridionales, populations d'Afrique noire vendues par les commerçants ibériques, chrétiens en terre d'islam, musulmans en terre chrétienne, les esclaves sont partout, aussi bien en ville qu'à la campagne, affectés à des tâches domestiques, artisanales, industrielles, dans une diversité de situations et de statuts qui a longtemps dissuadé les historiens de considérer le phénomène dans son ensemble - c'est précisément le défi que relève aujourd'hui cet ouvrage pionnier."--Page 4 of cover.

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In Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving--cannibalism--was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of potential cannibals.

Cannibalism --- Slavery --- Anthropophagy --- Ethnology --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- History. --- Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Enslaved persons

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After Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, a squadron of Royal Navy vessels was sent to the West Coast of Africa tasked with suppressing the thriving transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on previously unpublished papers found in private collections and various archives in the UK and abroad, this book examines the personal and cultural experiences of the naval officers at the frontline of Britain's anti-slavery campaign in West Africa. It explores their unique roles in this 60-year operation: at sea, boarding slave ships bound for the Americas and 'liberating' captive Africans; on shore, as Britain resolved to 'improve' West African societies; and in the metropolitan debates around slavery and abolitionism in Britain. Their personal narratives are revealing of everyday concerns of health, rewards and strategy, to more profound questions of national honour, cultural encounters, responsibility for the lives of others in the most distressing of circumstances, and the true meaning of 'freedom' for formerly enslaved African peoples. British anti-slavery efforts and imperial agendas were tightly bound in the nineteenth century, inseparable from ideas of national identity. This is a book about individuals tasked with extraordinary service, military men who also worked as guardians, negotiators, and envoys of abolition.

Slave trade --- Slavery --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- History --- Great Britain. --- צי הבריטי --- England and Wales. --- Great Britain --- History, Naval --- Enslaved persons --- 1800-1899

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Slavery --- Slave trade --- Collective memory --- Slavery and Islam. --- Esclavage --- Esclaves --- Mémoire collective --- History. --- Histoire --- Commerce --- Aspect religieux --- Islam --- Slavery and Islam --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- History --- Islam and slavery --- Slavery (Islam) --- Enslaved persons

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Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the 19th century jurist Antonio Pereira Rebouças (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key - and conflicted - role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics. One of the most prominent specialists in civil law of his time, Rebouças explained why blacks fought stridently for their own inclusion in society but also complicitly embraced an ethic of silence on race more broadly. Grinberg argues that while this silence was crucial for defining spaces of social mobility and respectability regardless of race, it was also stifling, and played an important role in quelling political mobilization based on racial identity.

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