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Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to consider the limitations of 'new slavery' discourse.
Slavery --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Political aspects. --- Enslaved persons
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Liberata was a real-life character. Slave, then free, mother as a slave and mother already released, finally defunct, all in the first half of the 19th century. In this book, Liberata is almost fiction, or rather, an author of fiction. She proposes the enigma of her life, as recorded in the centenary documents kept by the National Archives in Rio de Janeiro, and she guides the investigator through the labyrinths of interpretation and evidence that will allow to decipher the enigma itself.
Slavery --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- HISTORY --- Enslaved persons
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Para além do Atlântico negro de Paul Gilroy, o Atlântico da escravidão, noção abrangente cujas fronteiras vão ao coração dos continentes, ainda que constantemente retrabalhado por subdivisões linguísticas (o Atlântico lusófono, francófono, anglófono...) ou hemisféricas (Atlântico Sul, Norte). Este livro, no entanto, desafia essas fronteiras: surge como uma história cruzada entre o Atlântico Sul e o Atlântico Norte, entre um espaço lusófono e um outro, francófono; entre datas da abolição da escravatura separadas no tempo. Busca definir os vínculos, os efeitos de convergência, bem como as diferenças entre esses mundos. O livro reúne 12 historiadores para pensar as ligações entre escravidão, pós-escravidão, cidadania e subjetividade, entre os séculos XVII e XX, no Atlânticoda Escravidão.
Slavery --- Race awareness. --- Subjectivity. --- Colonies --- History. --- Influence. --- Awareness --- Ethnopsychology --- Ethnic attitudes --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- cidadania --- escravidão --- Atlântico --- pos-abolição --- raça saaia --- Enslaved persons
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La libertad, antónimo de la esclavitud, fue el objectivo esencial de vida de aquellos seres humanos sometidos a tan aberrante práctica. Distintas fueron las formas que, tanto ellos y quienes por motivos diversos los alentaron, usaron para obtener su propósito, que a fin de cuentas era ineludible. Esta recopilación es muestra de algunas de las vías por las que los esclavos lograron sus fines. El itinerario seguido para obtener la libertad habría de ser difícil, los obstáculos, muchas veces vistos como insalvables, sin embargo fueron vencidos con acciones de participación directa que involucraba la violencia, hasta la sutil intervención que con ingenio y astucia desplegaron quienes carentes de todo pusieron en este propósito toda su imaginación e ingenio. Acciones comunes que se repiten sin límites fronterizos con fines similares, pero que a pesar de ello adquieren rasgos propios de su entorno, entre otros muchos: las formas de dominio y la cohabitación étnica. En esta breve muestra se recogen experiencias iberoamericanas acaecidas en periodos diferentes que cubren desde los tempranos destellos de rebelión del siglo XVI hasta las luchas sistematizadas del siglo XVIII. Juan Manuel de la Serna H., investigador de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, asignado al Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe tiene como líneas de investigación la historia social regional de México y el Caribe. Ha trabajado sobre la esclavitud de los africanos y sus descendientes desde varias perspectivas.
Slavery --- Blacks --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Social Classes --- History --- Social conditions --- Negroes --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Ethnology --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Black persons --- Black people --- africanos --- esclavitud --- libertad --- luchas --- afrodescendientes --- Enslaved persons
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'In Energy without Conscience' David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. Hughes centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the world's oldest petro-state, having drilled the first continuously producing oil well in 1866. Marrying historical research with interviews with Trinidadian petroleum scientists, policymakers, technicians, and managers, he draws parallels between Trinidad's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century slave labor energy economy and its contemporary oil industry. Hughes shows how both forms of energy rely upon a complicity that absolves producers and consumers from acknowledging the immoral nature of each. He passionately argues that like slavery, producing oil is a moral choice and that oil is at its most dangerous when it is accepted as an ordinary part of everyday life.
E-books --- Energy industries --- Slavery --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Environmental aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- History. --- Colonies --- Oil industries --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Industries --- Power resources --- History --- Climate change (general concept) --- Hydrocarbon --- Petroleum --- Port of Spain --- Trinidad --- Trinidad and Tobago --- Enslaved persons
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A classic text long out of print, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in Martinique during the period immediately preceding slave emancipation in 1848. Interpreting these events against the broader background of the world-economy, Dale W. Tomich analyzes the importance of topics such as British hegemony in the nineteenth century, related developments of the French economy, and competition from European beet sugar producers. He shows how slaves' adaptation-and resistance-to changing working conditions transformed the plantation labor regime and the very character of slavery itself. Based on archival sources in France and Martinique, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar offers a vivid reconstruction of the complex and contradictory interrelations among the world market, the material processes of sugar production, and the social relations of slavery. In this second edition, Tomich includes a new introduction in which he offers an explicit discussion of the methodological and theoretical issues entailed in developing and extending the world-systems perspective and clarifies the importance of the approach for the study of particular histories.
Slavery --- Slave labor --- Sugarcane industry --- Sugar trade --- Sugar bounties --- Sugar industry --- Sweetener industry --- Forced labor --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- History --- Martinique --- Economic conditions. --- Enslaved persons
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Dans la pensée contemporaine, l’esclavage est considéré comme un crime contre l’humanité, parce qu’il nie des droits universellement reconnus (la liberté, l’égalité), en faisant de l’être humain une propriété, un objet. Pourtant, l’affirmation de l’homme en tant qu’être juridique porteur de droits subjectifs est historiquement et culturellement marquée. Il a pu exister, même en droit français, un droit objectif de l’esclavage. Cette réalité conduit à s’interroger sur la logique de légitimation de l’esclavage, et à l’inverse sur l’émergence d’une définition juridique de l’homme comme sujet de droit. Le centre « Éthique et procédures » et la faculté de droit Alexis de Tocqueville (Université d’Artois), à l’initiative de Manuel Carius et de Tanguy Le Marc’hadour, ont invité juristes de droit public ou de droit privé et historiens du droit à réfléchir sur les rapports du droit et de l’esclavage. Leurs contributions, limitées à l’espace juridique français, mais étudiant des époques et des lieux variés, analysent le code noir et ses évolutions, ou le droit international contemporain, en passant par le droit du protectorat marocain ou le statut de l’indigène en Algérie. Le droit de l’esclavage ayant longtemps cohabité avec son interdiction, on constate un relativisme juridique qui lui donne des contours imprécis, sur deux points : il fait de l’esclave un être juridique hybride, à la fois chose et homme, dont le statut varie avec le temps, et il désigne aussi « l’autre humanité », susceptible d’être mise en esclavage, et « l’autre lieu », l’ailleurs où existera l’esclavage. Il crée alors une altérité mouvante qui prend des formes différentes selon les époques et les lieux. Les contributeurs du colloque présentent ainsi une réflexion sur un droit pris entre exigence morale et intérêts économiques ou sécuritaires.
Slavery --- Slave trade --- Blacks --- Law and legislation --- Colonies --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Justification --- France. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- esclavage --- histoire --- droit --- Actes de congrès --- Enslaved persons --- Black people
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This important book assesses the size and nature of Caribbean slavery's economic impact on British society. The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy, a grouping of West India merchants and planters, became active before the emancipation of chattel slavery in the British West Indies in 1834. Many acquired nationally significant fortunes, and their investments percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society. At its core, the book traces the development of merchant capital and poses several interrelated questions during an era of rapid transformation, namely, what impact the private investments of West India merchants and colonial adventurers had on metropolitan society and the economy, as well as the wider effects of such commerce on industrial and agricultural development. The book also examines the fortunes of temporary Scottish economic migrants who traveled to some of the wealthiest of the Caribbean islands, presenting the first large-scale survey of repatriated slavery fortunes via case studies of Scots in Jamaica, Grenada, and Trinidad before emancipation in 1834. It, therefore, takes a new approach to illuminate the world of individuals who acquired West Indian fortunes and ultimately explores, in an Atlantic frame, the interconnections between the colonies and metropole in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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 --- Enslaved persons --- History --- 1700-1899 --- Glasgow (Scotland) --- Caribbean Area. --- Scotland --- Economic conditions --- Glasgow --- Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region --- Glaschu (Scotland) --- Glasgow (Strathclyde) --- Glasgo (Scotland)
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Consacré à l’étude du groupe social formé par les milliers d’anciens esclaves qui peuplèrent les « mornes » (terres intérieures des hauteurs) à la Martinique, cet ouvrage propose de revoir, pour la période allant de 1840 à 1960, les interprétations fournies jusqu’à présent. Il s’agit de renverser la perspective sur cette population rurale et de ne plus la considérer comme restée sous la domination de la grande plantation héritée de la période esclavagiste et subissant son histoire, mais comme pleinement active dans la prise en charge de ses orientations collectives. L’auteur s’appuie sur des sources écrites (registres d’hypothèques et d’état civil) et orales (témoignages des habitants actuels des quartiers ruraux) qui font apparaître un processus d’accession aux terres paysannes de grande ampleur et établi de manière légale. La reconstitution sur le long terme de l’évolution foncière et démographique des hameaux paysans permet de mettre à jour les régularités sociales et le souci de préserver une existence en marge du dispositif répressif des planteurs. En présentant également une description de l’organisation sociale et économique paysanne, l’ouvrage parvient à dégager l’essentiel des rouages qui ont permis au groupe des anciens esclaves d’accéder à une forme d’autonomie sociale et de reconquérir la maîtrise de leur destin. Sur le plan plus théorique, l’auteur explore le lien entre espace et identité pour montrer en quoi il fut primordial à la Martinique et discute ses diverses représentations, y compris les plus récentes liées à une perspective post-moderne, produites sur le collectif des mornes.
Peasants --- Paysannerie --- History --- Histoire --- Martinique --- History. --- Slavery --- Freedmen --- Peasantry --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Ex-slaves --- Freed slaves --- Freedpersons --- Slaves --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Social conditions --- Martinica --- Département de la Martinique --- espace --- identité --- paysannerie --- Ex-enslaved persons --- Freed enslaved persons --- Enslaved persons --- Freed persons
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Esclavage, le mot est puissamment évocateur. S'imposent avec lui un espace, l'Atlantique ; une logique marchande, la traite ; un régime d'exploitation, la plantation ; un temps, la modernité ; une couleur, le noir. Lui adjoindre la Méditerranée éveillera sans doute une image seconde, celle des captifs de la course misérablement enchaînés dans les bagnes d'Alger, de Bougie ou de Tunis. Or, l'examiner depuis la Méditerranée et l'affirmer au pluriel, loin de sacrifier à un artifice rhétorique, situe l'ouvrage comme une interrogation de ces deux représentations singulières qui sont généralement confondues. Des rivages baltiques au Sahel, des steppes mongoles au Sahara, vers la mer Intérieure, se révèle un riche nuancier de pratiques de capture, de régimes légaux et de logiques économiques qui structurent les formes multiples et complexes de la privation de liberté : dette, course, piraterie et traites, comme autant de questions adressées à deux représentations de l'esclavage dont la prégnance même reflète ou l'ingénuité ou l'empreinte idéologique.
Slavery --- Slave trade --- History --- Esclavage --- Histoire --- Esclavos -- Mediterráneo (Región) -- Historia. --- Slave trade -- Mediterranean Region -- History. --- Slavery -- Mediterranean Region -- History. --- Trata de esclavos -- Mediterráneo (Región) -- Historia. --- Communities - Social Classes --- Esclavos --- Trata de esclavos --- Historia. --- History. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Slavery - Mediterranean Region - History --- Slave trade - Mediterranean Region - History --- traite des esclaves --- esclavage --- Méditerranée --- Enslaved persons
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