Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books

Book SynopsisWage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments, long recognized as a distinctive feature of certain areas under Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century. Focusing on Cuba, this book reveals that instead of providing a "path to manumission," the process was often rife with obstacles that blocked slaves from achieving liberty.Claudia Varella and Manuel Barcia trace the evolution of coartación in the context of urban and rural settings, documenting the lived experiences of slaves through primary sources from many different archives. They show that slaveowners grew increasingly intolerant and abusive of the process, and that the laws of coartación were not often followed in practice. The process did not become formalized as a contract between slaves and their masters until 1875, after abolition had already come. Varella and Barcia discuss how coartados did not see an improvement in their situation at this time, but essentially became wage-earning slaves as they continued serving their former owners.The exhaustive research in this volume provides valuable insight into how slaves and their masters negotiated with each other in the ever-changing economic world of nineteenth-century Cuba, where freedom was not always absolute and where abuses and corruption most often prevailed.

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Book SynopsisEngaging the past, the present, and the future, The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty shows how the lived experience of Jamaican Maroons is linked to the African Diaspora. In so doing, this interdisciplinary undertaking interrogates the definition of Diaspora but mainly emphasizes the term’s use. Mario Nisbett demonstrates that an examination of Jamaican Maroon communities, particularly their socio-political development, can further highlight the significance of the African Diaspora as an analytical tool. He shows how Jamaican Maroons inform resistance to abjection, a denial of full humanity, through claiming their African origin and developing solidarity and consciousness in order to affirm black humanity. This book establishes that present-day Jamaican Maroons remain relevant and engage the African Diaspora to improve black standing and bolster assertions of sovereignty.Trade ReviewMario Nisbett provides clear evidence of command of the corpus of texts on the Jamaican Maroons, covering a wide historical span. This study of ‘The Workings of Diaspora’ is a most welcome contribution to African Diasporic discourse and a substantive addition to the body of scholarship on the Jamaican Maroons. -- Carolyn Cooper, University of the West Indies at Mona, JamaicaTable of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter One: Jamaican Maroons: Histories, Politics and CultureChapter Two: Black AbjectionChapter Three: OriginChapter Four: Collective ConsciousnessChapter Five: Sovereignty Claims

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Book SynopsisReviewed by Astrid Lustulin for Readers' Favourite: It is time to learn the stories of some nations in a more equitable way - not from the point of view of the conquerors but of the oppressed. This is why books like The Black History Truth: Jamaica by Pamela Gayle arouse great interest in a conscious reader. This book tells the story of 'The Sharpest Thorn in Britain's Caribbean Colonies,' focusing on the 16th to 19th centuries. Through extensive use of sources and images, Gayle sheds light on the injustices perpetrated by the British and analyses the stigmatization of Eurocentric historiography, which portrayed unfavorably behaviors and customs of groups of people it could not understand. Although the subject is complex, this book is clear and precise. Gayle tackles so many topics that she arouses the admiration of readers with her profound knowledge of Jamaica. She is very direct when she blames the British, but the evidence she brings is overwhelming. In The Black History Truth: Jamaica, you will not only find descriptions of struggles and injustices but also valuable information on local heroes and heroines, such as Nana Yaa Asantewaa and Queen Nanny, as well as customs that Europeans have misunderstood. Aft er reading this book, readers will understand why Jamaica was actually (as the subtitle describes it) "the sharpest thorn in Britain's Caribbean Colonies." I recommend this book to all those who want to see the history of humanity from a new perspective.Trade ReviewReviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favourite: Exploring the time between the 16th and 19th centuries when Jamaica was a part of the British colonial empire, the work seeks to uncover racial injustices and celebrate the roots of the many different black cultures.

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Book SynopsisSlavery is attested throughout ancient Greek history and all over the Greek world. Unsurprisingly, then, scholarship on Greek slavery has proliferated in the past twenty-five or so years, making a holistic synthesis of such work especially desirable. This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to research on this subject, surveying recent scholarly trends and controversies and suggesting future directions for research. Topics include regional variation in slave systems; the economics of slavery; the treatment of enslaved people; sex and gender; agency, resistance, and revolt; manumission; and representations, metaphors, and legacies of Greek slavery. Readers, including those interested in slavery of other time periods, will find this book an essential resource in learning about key issues in Greek slavery studies or in pursuing their own research.

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Book SynopsisFrom Capture to Sale illuminates the experience of African slaves transported to Spanish America by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. It draws on exceptionally rich accounts of one of the most prominent slave traders, Manuel Bautista Pérez. These papers cover the whole journey of the slaves from Africa, through Colombia and Panama to their final sale in Peru. The prime focus of the study is on the diet, health and medical care of the slaves. It will not only be of interest to scholars of the slave trade, but also to those interested in the impact of the Columbian Exchange on diets, medicine and medical practice in the early modern period. The book is well illustrated and contains over thirty tables and seven appendices. From Capture to Sale has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2007). Originally published in hardcover.Trade Review"The importance of Newson and Minchin's work is two fold. In the first place, they have uncovered precious new documentation in the Archivo General de la Nación in Lima which gives perhaps the most detailed record we have for the entire proceedings of a slave-trading enterprise from the 1610s. In the second place, they have pieced together perhaps the most detailed account we have of the lives of slaves in this Iberian trade during every aspect of their transatlantic migration, from capture to sale, as their title suggests. [...] This is a book which scholars need to consider with care and detailed attention." – Tobias O. Green, University of Birmingham, in: H-Luso-Africa (May, 2010) "This outstanding book adds significantly to the understanding of a relatively understudied part of the Atlantic slave trade in a period that similarly suffers from neglect, when compared with the attention paid to the trade's later incarnations." – J.M. Rosenthal, in: Choice, 2007 "From Capture to Sale shows that Portuguese slave-trading in the early seventeenth century was indeed a risky business. Before the era of trading companies merchants like Manuel Bautista Pérez relied on far-flung networks of kin and compatriots for local knowledge and capital to carry out the many transactions necessary to move slaves safely and profitably from Africa to Peru. Though the authors' conclusion refers to the risks incurred by the Portuguese slave-traders at the heart of the book, the meticulously analyzed evidence on slaves' diets, health, and mortality richly documents the many hazards they too faced on the very long journey from capture to sale. [...] The text has more than a dozen photographs, maps, and illustrations and is supplemented with thirty-one tables, seven appendices, a glossary of Spanish and Portuguese terms, a bibliography, and an extensive index. This wealth of supporting material is increasingly rare in academic publishing, as is the use of footnotes rather than endnotes. Brill may be one of the few publishers to allow such relative extravagances, but they will be much appreciated by the book's scholarly readers." – Evelyn Powell Jennings, Saint Lawrence University, in: H-Atlantic "This study can be recommended to all readers interested in the history of the slave trade to Spanish America. A general audience as well as students of slave history will gain from the clear structure of the study following the different stages of slave trade. Thanks to the the rich material presented in 7 appendices, 7 figures, 7 maps, and 31 tables, the study is equally valuable to the specialist." – Dagmar Bechtloff, University of Bremen, in: Hispanica American Historical Review, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 730-731Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Maps and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: A Bureaucratic Business Chapter Two: The Acquisition of Slaves Chapter Three: Time on the Coast Chapter Four: The Middle Passage Chapter Five: In the Barracoons of Cartagena Chapter Six: The Final Passage Chapter Seven: Slave Doctors, Surgeons and Healers Chapter Eight: Medicines and Mortality Conclusion Appendices Appendix A: Textiles Sold on the Upper Guinea Coast 1613 to 1618. Appendix B: Beads Sold on the Upper Guinea Coast 1613 to1618. Appendix C: Other Commodities Sold on the Upper Guinea Coast 1613-1618. Appendix D: Nutritional Composition of Selected West African Staples. Appendix E: Lists of Daños Calculated on Slaves Purchased in Cartagena 1633. Appendix F: Business Associates of Manuel Bautista Pérez. Appendix G: Select Genealogy of the Pérez-Duarte Families. Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Studies of the South Atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections between Angola and Brazil, and specifically on the flows of enslaved Africans from Luanda and the relations between Portuguese-Brazilian traders and other agents and their local African and mulatto trading partners. While reaffirming the centrality of slaving activities and of the networks that underpinned them, this collection of new essays shows that there were major Portuguese-Brazilian slave-trading activities in the South Atlantic outside Luanda as well as the Angolan-Brazil axes upon which historians usually focus. In drawing attention to these aspects of the South Atlantic commercial world, we are reminded that this was a world of change and also one in which Portuguese-Brazilian traders were unable to sustain in the face of competition from northern European rivals the dominant position in slave trading in Atlantic Africa that they had first established in the sixteenth century.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award: "This collection is an impressive demonstration of the precision and sophistication with which historians are advancing understanding of the slave trade in the South Atlantic. For many readers, these cutting-edge essays will serve as a necessary, if heady, introduction to the field. The title is slightly misleading; the cultural issues inherent in this history are a secondary concern. At heart, the book is an updated reconstruction of the complex demographic, political, and economic forces of the slave trade in the South Atlantic. There are chapters on Brazil’s economy, the role of private investment in the trade, and, in a useful expansion of how the Atlantic is defined, the trade in Mozambique. The history of the trade in Angola is the subject of three chapters, and there is a chapter on the impact of abolition. In addition to careful work with Lusophone sources, a number of the chapters are based on work in Dutch archives, presenting a full, rich portrait of this world. A further strength of the book is that the contributors treat the data in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (CH, Feb'09, 46-3397) as a point of departure rather than as the final word. A necessary edition to any serious collection on Atlantic slave trade. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." - J. M. Rosenthal, Western Connecticut State University [This review appeared in the July 2015 issue of Choice, Vol. 52 No.11. Copyright 2015 American Library Association] "Networks and Trans-Cultural Exchange provides an important contribution to the literature on the history of the traffic. Not only does it focus on a neglected side of the trade—the South Atlantic—in the English-language literature, but it brings together research conducted by some of the leading experts in the field, one of whom, José Capela, to whose memory the book is dedicated, is no longer with us. The book’s main theme—networks and trans-cultural exchange— also sets it apart from most other collections, [...] Furthermore, perhaps because of the EU Framework Seven Project, or because of the editors’ primary audience, the book does not shy away from discussing the role of Europeans in the South Atlantic business." - Daniel B. Dominques Da Silva, Rice University, in: Journal of World History, June 2017, pp. 292-296 "This fine collection of essays, many drawn from more extensive monographic studies, well-edited and accompanied by an extensive bibliography, [are] excellent introductions to the South Atlantic as a key element in the history of slavery, Africa, the Atlantic world, and the global diaspora of African peoples." - Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University, in: Journal of Global Slavery 1 (2016) 113–133, pp. 121-125

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Book SynopsisThis anthology addresses and analyses the transformation of interconnected spaces and spatial entanglements in the Atlantic rim during the era of the slave trade by focusing on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and their Caribbean islands of Saint Thomas, Saint Jan and Saint Croix as well as on the Swedish Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. The first part of the anthology addresses aspects of interconnectedness in West Africa, in particular the relationship between Africans and Danes on the Gold Coast. The second part of this volume examines various aspects of interconnectedness, creolisation and experiences of Danish and Swedish slave rules in the Caribbean. *Ports of Globalisationis now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii List of Illustrations ... viii List of Contributors ... x 1 Introduction: Portals of Early Modern Globalisation and Creolisation in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade ... 1 Holger Weiss 2 The Entangled Spaces of Oddena, Oguaa and Osu: A Survey of Three Early Modern African Atlantic Towns, ca. 1650–1850 ... 22 Holger Weiss 3 ‘A Fine Flintlock, a Pair of Ditto Pistols and a Hat with a Gold Galloon’: Danish Political and Commercial Strategies on the Gold Coast in the Early 18th Century ... 68 Fredrik Hyrum Svensli 4 Slave Trade, Slave Plantations and Danish Colonialism ... 101 Per Hernæs 5 Pre-Colonial Visions of a Colony: The Construction of the Pligtarbejder in a Proposed Danish West African Colony ... 140 Jonas Møller Pedersen 6 The Question of Rights in a Colour-Conscious Empire: The Danish West Indies and the Global Age of Revolutions (1800–1850) ... 154 Christian Damm Pedersen 7 The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C.G.A. Oldendorp’s Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West Indies ... 191 Anders Ahlbäck 8 Freedom, Autonomy, and Independence: Exceptional African Caribbean Life Experiences in St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies, in the Middle of the 18th Century ... 218 Louise Sebro 9 Magic, Obeah and Law in the Danish West Indies, 1750s–1840s ... 245 Gunvor Simonsen 10 Thirty-Two Lashes at Quatre Piquets: Slave Laws and Justice in the Swedish Colony of St. Barthélemy ca. 1800 ... 280 Fredrik Thomasson Index ... 307

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Book SynopsisOn Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the “extreme” categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as “free labor” and “slavery.” The frame of reference is the observation that although chattel slavery has largely been abolished in the course of the past two centuries, other forms of coerced labor have persisted in most parts of the world. While most nations have increasingly condemned the continued existence of slavery and the slave trade, they have tolerated labor relationships that involve violent control, economic exploitation through the appropriation of labor power, restriction of workers’ freedom of movement, and fraudulent debt obligations. Contributors are: Lisa Carstensen, Christian G. De Vito, Justin F. Jackson, Christine Molfenter, David Palmer, Nicola Pizzolato, Luis F.B. Plascencia, Magaly Rodríguez García, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ... vii List of Maps, Tables and Figures ... viii Notes on Contributors ... ix 1 Introduction ... 1 Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law 2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11 Magaly Rodríguez García 3 Modern Slavery: The Legal Tug-of-war between Globalization and Fragmentation ... 30 Nicole Siller 4 Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporary India ... 50 Christine Molfenter Part 2 Convict and Military Labor 5 Forced Labor in Colonial Penal Institutions across the Spanish, u.s., British, French Atlantic, 1860s–1920s ... 73 Kelvin Santiago-Valles 6 Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750s–1910s): Comparative Perspectives ... 98 Christian G. De Vito 7 ‘A military necessity which must be pressed’: The u.s. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines ... 127 Justin F. Jackson 8 Foreign Forced Labor at Mitsubishi’s Nagasaki and Hiroshima Shipyards: Big Business, Militarized Government, and the Absence of Shipbuilding Workers’ Rights in World War II Japan ... 159 David Palmer Part 3 Agricultural and Industrial Labor 9 Coerced Coffee Cultivation and Rural Agency: The Plantation-Economy of the Kivu (1918–1940) ... 187 Sven Van Melkebeke 10 “As much in bondage as they was before”: Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935–1952) ... 208 Nicola Pizzolato 11 State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909–2014 ... 225 Luis F.B. Plascencia 12 “Modern Slave Labor” in Brazil at the Intersection of Production, Migration and Resistance Networks ... 267 Lisa Carstensen Part 4 In Lieu of a Conclusion 13 Dissecting Coerced Labor ... 293 Marcel van der Linden Bibliography ... 323 Index ... 369

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Book SynopsisOn Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the “extreme” categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as “free labor” and “slavery.” The frame of reference is the observation that although chattel slavery has largely been abolished in the course of the past two centuries, other forms of coerced labor have persisted in most parts of the world. While most nations have increasingly condemned the continued existence of slavery and the slave trade, they have tolerated labor relationships that involve violent control, economic exploitation through the appropriation of labor power, restriction of workers’ freedom of movement, and fraudulent debt obligations. Contributors are: Lisa Carstensen, Christian G. De Vito, Justin F. Jackson, Christine Molfenter, David Palmer, Nicola Pizzolato, Luis F.B. Plascencia, Magaly Rodríguez García, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ... vii List of Maps, Tables and Figures ... viii Notes on Contributors ... ix 1 Introduction ... 1 Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law 2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11 Magaly Rodríguez García 3 Modern Slavery: The Legal Tug-of-war between Globalization and Fragmentation ... 30 Nicole Siller 4 Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporary India ... 50 Christine Molfenter Part 2 Convict and Military Labor 5 Forced Labor in Colonial Penal Institutions across the Spanish, u.s., British, French Atlantic, 1860s–1920s ... 73 Kelvin Santiago-Valles 6 Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750s–1910s): Comparative Perspectives ... 98 Christian G. De Vito 7 ‘A military necessity which must be pressed’: The u.s. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines ... 127 Justin F. Jackson 8 Foreign Forced Labor at Mitsubishi’s Nagasaki and Hiroshima Shipyards: Big Business, Militarized Government, and the Absence of Shipbuilding Workers’ Rights in World War II Japan ... 159 David Palmer Part 3 Agricultural and Industrial Labor 9 Coerced Coffee Cultivation and Rural Agency: The Plantation-Economy of the Kivu (1918–1940) ... 187 Sven Van Melkebeke 10 “As much in bondage as they was before”: Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935–1952) ... 208 Nicola Pizzolato 11 State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909–2014 ... 225 Luis F.B. Plascencia 12 “Modern Slave Labor” in Brazil at the Intersection of Production, Migration and Resistance Networks ... 267 Lisa Carstensen Part 4 In Lieu of a Conclusion 13 Dissecting Coerced Labor ... 293 Marcel van der Linden Bibliography ... 323 Index ... 369

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Book SynopsisIn The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition, Erik Gøbel offers an account of the well-documented Danish transatlantic slave trade. Denmark was the seventh-largest slave-trading nation with forts and factories on the Gold Coast and a colony in the Virgin Islands. The comprehensive Danish archival material provides the basis for Gøbel’s descriptions of the volume and composition of the slave trade and trade cargoes, as well as the shipping and conditions on board along the Middle Passage. Attention is also paid to the 1791 Danish Slave Trade Commission report and the final decision to abolish the slave trade altogether. *The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolitionis now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Diagrams List of Tables Preface Part One: The Danish Slave Trade 1. Introduction 2. Volume and Composition of the Slave Trade and the Trade Cargoes 3. Transatlantic Slave Trade Shipping 4. Slave Trade in the Danish West Indies and in Asia Part Two: Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade 5. Prelude in Denmark prior to 1792 6. Ernst Schimmelmann 7. The Slave Trade Commission and its Report, 1791 8. The Abolition Edict, 1792 9. Transitional Period, 1792–1802 10. Developments after 1803 11. Conclusion Part Three: Sources The Slave Trade Commission’s Report, 1791 The Abolition Edict, 1792 Bibliography Abbreviations Index

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Book SynopsisThe present volume contains seventeen essays on the Mamluk Sultanate, an Islamic Empire of slaves whose capital was in Cairo between the 13th and the 16th centuries, written by leading historians of this period. It discusses topics as varied as social and cultural issues, women in Mamluk society, literary and poetical genres, the politics of material culture, and regional and local politics. The volume presents state of the art scholarship in the field of Mamluk studies as well as an in-depth review of recent developments. Mamluk studies have expanded considerably in recent years and today interests hundreds of active researchers worldwide who write in numerous languages and constitute a vivid and strong community of researchers, some of whose best research is presented in this volume. With contributions by Reuven Amitai; Frédéric Bauden; Yuval Ben-Bassat; Joseph Drory; Élise Franssen; Yehoshua Frenkel; Li Guo; Daisuke Igarashi; Yaacov Lev; Bernadette Martel-Thoumian; Carl Petry; Warren Schultz; Boaz Shoshan; Hana Taragan; Bethany J. Walker; Michael Winter; Koby Yosef; Limor Yungman.Trade Review"In my view this volume offers a nice entry point into the field of Mamlūk history. It offers a taster of the range of perspectives that have and are being taken by scholars in the field, as well as a fine introduction to a number of its historical sources." - Daisy Livingston, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 109 (2019) "... this collection of articles is highly recommended for anyone interested in the Mamlūks. With its combination of articles by both well-established scholars as well as relative newcomers to the discipline, it provides an excellent, remarkably rich and multifaceted cross section of the state of the art in the burgeoning field of Mamlūk history." - Laurenz Kern, Freie Universität Berlin, in: Die Welt Des Islams 59 (2019) "... the volume constitutes an important read for scholars and students of the Mamluk Period as well as of the respective fields of inquiry beyond that field. This is also true for further subjects such as numismatics, manuscript studies, institutional history, or food studies." - Torsten Wollina, Orient-Institut Beirut, in: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 95/2 (2018) "In their remarkable variety, these seventeen papers nicely illustrate the different terrains of scholarship on which Amalia Levanoni has been operating since the 1980s. Whereas some of them continue to situate themselves comfortably in longstanding research traditions and paradigms, quite a few simultaneously demonstrate the expanding range of research perspectives - including social theory, literary criticism, codicology, anthropology and archaeology - that have started to transform Mamluk studies into an interdisciplinary field by default. Beyond the individual value of quite a few of the papers in this volume, the latter general observation certainly also adds to the importance of this volume as a whole." - Jo Van Steenbergen, University of Gent, in: English Historical Review 134/569 (2019)Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration List of Pictures and Illustrations Acknowledgments Professor Amalia Levanoni’s Contribution to the Field of Mamluk Studies Michael Winter Introduction Yuval Ben-Bassat A. Social and Cultural Issues 1. Carl Petry “Already Rich? Yet ‘Greed Deranged Him’: Elite Status and Criminal Complicity in the Mamluk Sultanate” 2. Koby Yosef “Usages of Kinship Terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the Notion of the ‘Mamlūk Family’” 3. Limor Yungman “Medieval Middle Eastern Court Taste: The Mamluk Case” 4. Bernadette Martel-Thoumian “DU SANG ET DES LARMES: LE DESTIN TRAGIQUE D’AṢALBĀY AL-JARKASIYYA (m. en 1509)” 5. Daisuke Igarashi “The Office of the Ustādār al-ʿĀliya in the Circassian Mamluk Era” B. Women in Mamluk Society 6. Yaakov Lev “Women in the Urban Space of Medieval Muslim Cities” 7. Yehoshua Frenkel “Slave Girls and Learned Teachers: Women in Mamluk Sources” 8. Boaz Shoshan “On Marriage in Damascus, 1480-1500” C. Literary and Poetical Genres 9. Li Guo “Songs, Poetry, and Storytelling: Ibn Taghrībirdī on the Yalbughā Affair” 10. Frédéric Bauden “Maqriziana XIII: An Exchange of Correspondence Between al-Maqrīzī and al-Qalqashandī” 11. Michael Winter “Sultan Selīm’s Obsession with Mamluk Egypt according to Evliyā Ҁelebi’s Seyāḥatnāme” D. The Politics of Material Culture 12. Warren Schultz “Mamluk Coins, Mamluk Politics and the Limits of the Numismatic Evidence” 13. Hana Taragan “Mamluk Patronage, Crusader Spolia: Turbat al-Kubakiyya in the Mamilla Cemetery, Jerusalem (688/1289)” 14. Bethany J. Walker “The Struggle over Water: Evaluating the ‘Water Culture’ of Syrian Peasants under Mamluk Rule” 15. Élise Franssen “What was there in a Mamluk Amīr’s Library? Evidence from a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript” E. Regional and Local Politics 16. Reuven Amitai “Post-Crusader Acre in Light of a Mamluk Inscription and a Fatwā Document from Damascus” 17. Joseph Drory “Favored by the Sultan, Disfavored by his Son: Some Glimpses into the Career of Ṭashtamur Ḥummuṣ Akhḍar” Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAtlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass takes its bearings from the Maryland-born former slave Frederick Douglass’s 1845 sojourn in Ireland and Britain—a voyage that is understood in editors Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins’ collection as paradigmatic of the crossings between American, African American, and Irish historical experience and culture with which the collection as a whole is concerned. In crossing the Atlantic, Douglass also completed his journey from slavery to freedom, and from political and cultural marginality into subjective and creative autonomy. Atlantic Crossings traces the stages of that journey in chapters on literature, archaeology, and spatial culture that consider both roots and routes—landscapes of New World slavery, subordination, and state-sponsored surveillance, and narratives of resistance, liberation, and intercultural exchange generated by transatlantic connectivities and the transnational transfer of ideas. Contributors Lee M. Jenkins, Mark P. Leone, Katie Ahern, Miranda Corcoran, Ann Coughlan, Kathryn H. Deeley, Adam Fracchia, Mary Furlong Minkoff, Tracy H. Jenkins, Dan O’Brien, Eoin O’Callaghan, Elizabeth Pruitt, Benjamin A. Skolnik and Stefan WoehlkeTrade Review"[...] all of the essays in the volume provide ideas for interpreting the past in new and revealing ways. Mark Leone, his coeditor, Lee Jenkins, and their authors have produced an important model for forging crossdisciplinary conversations and they accomplished this through an impressively collaborative approach, involving senior scholars, advanced graduate students, two disciplines, and two institutions." - Julia A. King (St. Mary’s College of Maryland), Historical Archeology 52, 2018, p. 506–508.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF FIGURES INTRODUCTION : Frederick Douglass and the Transatlantic Classroom - MARK P. LEONE AND LEE M. JENKINS PART I: ROOTS AND ROUTES: SITES OF SLAVERY, PASSAGES TO FREEDOM 1. Transatlantic Roots: Cultural Uses of Plants at the Wye House Plantation - ELIZABETH PRUITT 2. Montpelier: The Making of an African-American Landscapes - STEFAN WOEHLKE 3. Between Freedom and Slavery: Understanding the Material Landscapes of Labour in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore and Texas, Maryland - ADAM FRACCHIA 4. Frederick Douglass, Arthur O’Connor, and the Columbian Orator - ANN COUGHLAN PART II: TRANSATLANTIC COMPARATIVES 5. Domestic Labour in Black and Green: Deciphering the Sensory Experiences of African-American and Irish Domestics Working in Alexandria, Virginia - MARY FURLONG MINKOFF 6. “A nice Catholic girl ruined by a dirty foreigner”: Foreign and Domestic Censorship in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy - DAN O’BRIEN 7. Negative Space and Narrative Elision in Twentieth-Century Soviet and American Fiction: Towards a Transnational Aesthetic of Paranoid Representation - MIRANDA CORCORAN PART III: CREATING IDENTI TI ES 8. Allies and Intersections: Douglass, Archaeology, and the Knitting Together of Progressive Movements - TRACY H. JENKINS 9. William Faulkner, Whiteness, and the Transnational Short Story - EOIN O’CALLAGHAN 10. Who’s Who and How Can We Tell?: The Archaeology of Group Identity and Demonstrating Belonging in Nineteenth-Century African-American Annapolis - KATHRYN H. DEELEY 11. “I read them, over and over again, with an interest that was ever increasing”: Language and Education in Frederick Douglass and Anzia Yezierska - KATIE AHERN CODA An Eagle on Their Buttons: Frederick Douglass, Archaeology, and Ideology - BENJAMIN A. SKOLNIK Notes on the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe truck system was a global phenomenon in the period 1865-1920, where workers were paid through the company store. In Beyond Racism and Poverty Karin Lurvink looks at how this system functioned on plantations in Louisiana in comparison with peateries in the Netherlands. In the United States, the system is often viewed as a 'second slavery' and strongly associated with racism. In the Netherlands, however, not racism but poverty has been seen as the main reason for its continued existence. By using a variety of historical sources and by analyzing the perspectives of both employers and workers, Lurvink provides new insights into how the truck system worked and can be explained. She reveals how the system was not only coercive but had advantages for the workers as well, which should not be overlooked.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations and Conventions Glossary Introduction  The Truck System—A Nineteenth-Century Global Phenomenon  American Historians Discussing the Truck System—Racism  Dutch Historians Discussing the Truck System—Poverty  Selecting the Research Cases  Rational Choice-Approach  Voice from the Past: Source Material  Outline 1 Bayous and Bogs—The Geography of Isolation  The Louisiana Countryside  Louisiana Rivers, Creeks, Lakes, and Bayous  Railroads—An Improved Connection to the Outside World  Dutch Roads and Highways of Water 2 Truck Payments  Fields of Cotton and Sugarcane  Permanent and Seasonal Peat Lands  Truck Payments   Direct Non-Cash—Something to Eat and a Few Rags to Wear?   Indirect Non-Cash—The Company Store   Colorful Tokens and Handwritten Store Notes   Living off Future Income  Piles of Greenbacks, Dollars, and Guilders  Conclusions 3 Abuse? The Effects of the Truck System  Whiskey, Jenever, and Alcoholics  High Price, Low Quality  Usurious Interest Rates  Debt Peonage  Conclusions 4 Costs and Benefits—The Employer’s Perspective  Costs—The Opposite of the Truck System  Economic Forces and Financial Difficulties   Strapped for Cash   Miserable Years and Declining Profits   ‘The Queerest Looking Creatures’—Labor Supply and Productivity  ‘The Misery of this Time’ and Truck Payment Methods  Conclusions 5 Carrots, Cake, and Candy—The Store as a Positive Incentive  Presents ‘Joyfully Accepted’  Facilitating Commerce   Self-sufficient Little Worlds of Their Own?   The Alternative Marketplace –‘A Welcome Sight to the Rural Resident’   Credit Scarcity  Consumerism and the Physical Artifacts of Modern Life   ‘From Something to Eat, to Something to Work, to Something to Wear’   Shopping in the Peat Employer’s Store—‘The More We Take, the More We Have’   Access to Desires  Conclusions 6 Sticks and Strikes—The Store as a Negative Incentive  Debating and Denouncing the Truck System  ‘No Way to Check the Honesty of the Records’  Lack of Freedom  Racist Truck System?  Conclusions 7 The Power of Racism and Class  Increasing Terror  Declining Resistance  Racism and the Truck System  No Truck, No Job  Lowest Class of Society  Conclusions Conclusion  Main Conclusions  Racism and Poverty  Beyond Louisiana and the Netherlands: Suggestions for Future Research Appendices  Appendix 1. Louisiana Database and Method of Analysis   Creating the Database   Method of Analysis  Appendix 2. Dutch Database and Method of Analysis  Appendix 3. Harry Baptiste and Samuel Taylor—Oral History Interview 2011  Appendix 4. Isolation and Infrastructure Sources  Unpublished Sources   Peateries   Plantation Administrations  Photographs  Tokens  Interviews  Printed Sources  Newspapers  Dutch Newspapers  Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit  Government Documents  Dutch Government Documents  Second Chamber Reports  First Chamber Reports  Maps  Miscellaneous  Published sources  Price Data  Travel Accounts  Miscellaneous Bibliography  Literature  Unpublished Studies Index

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Book SynopsisMaroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation sheds further light on the contemporary modes of Maroon circulation and presence in Suriname and in the French Guiana. The contributors assembled in the volume look to describe Maroon ways of inhabiting, transforming and circulating through different localities in the Guianas, as well as their modes of creating and incorporating knowledge and artefacts into their social relations and spaces. By bringing together authors with diverse perspectives on the situation of the Guianese Maroon at the twenty-first century, the volume contributes to the anthropological literature on Maroon societies, providing ethnographic, and historical depth and legitimacy to the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.

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Book SynopsisCommercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860 offers a fresh perspective on why, in the nineteenth century, the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities, instead of exporters of slaves. This study takes a long-term comparative approach and makes of use of new quantitative data. It argues that the timing and nature of the change from slave exports to so-called ‘legitimate commerce’ in the Gold Coast, the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin, can be predicted by patterns of trade established in previous centuries by a range of African and European actors responding to the changing political and economic environments of the Atlantic world.Table of Contents List of Figures, Maps and Tables  List of Appendices  Introduction: Historiography of the Commercial Transition  1 From Slaves to ‘legitimate commerce’: Different Places, Different Times  2 West African Trade with the Atlantic World  3 Accounting for Regional Differences  4 Organisation Part 1 Trends in the (Non-Slave) Trade with West Africa Over the Eighteenth Century  1 Regional Patterns of (Non-Slave) Trade in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 The Commodity Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century  2 Trade in Africa in the Eighteenth Century  2 Commercial Agriculture and Slave Ship Provisioning 1680–1800  1 Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Boost West African Commercial Agriculture?  2 Main Results  3 Changing Relative Prices and Trade Risks  4 Revised Estimates of West African Food Exports, 1681–1807  5 Why did British Provisioning Strategies Differ and What were the Impacts on Different Regions?  3 The Transatlantic Slave and Commodity Trades in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 Measuring the Volume and Value of the Commodity Trade  2 Real Value and Structure of West Africa’s Commodity Trade  3 Regional Trade  4 Market Exchange and the Slave Trade Part 2 The Long-Term Roots of the Commercial Transitions: Case Studies  4 The Gold Coast: Gold, Wealth and Power Amongst the Akans  1 Long-term Trade Contacts  2 A New Interpretation of the Impact of Abolition  3 Economic and Political Considerations in 1808  4 Gold and the Asante State  5 Household Labour Decisions  5 The Bight of Biafra: From Export Slavery to Slave Production  1 External Trade  2 The Value of the Commodity Trade and ‘comey’  3 Britain and Palm Oil Trading  4 Institutional Development in Biafra  5 The Demand for Labour and the Internal Slave Trade  6 Household Production of Palm Oil  6 The Bight of Benin: Dahomey and the Dominance of Export Slavery  1 Long-term Trends in Dahomey’s Trade  2 Comparative Value of the Slave and Commodity Trades  3 Trading Partners  4 Dahomean Militarism  5 Militarism and Labour  Conclusion  1 Long-Term Patterns of Trade  2 Diverging Trajectories  3 The Real Impact of Britain’s Abolition Campaign  4 Implications and Future Research  Bibliography   Published Contemporary Sources   Secondary Sources   Online Sources  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Possessed by the Right Hand, the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law. See Bernard Freamon live at Rutgers Law School (October 8, 2019). Listen to Possessed by the Right Hand: An Interview with Prof. Bernard Freamon from Network ReOrient on AnchorTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Maps Introduction 1 1 Slavery, Slave Trading and the Law in the Pre-Islamic Middle East 2 Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Islam 3 Slavery and Empire in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Worlds 4 The "Mamluk/Ghulam Phenomenon"—Slave Sultans, Soldiers, Eunuchs and Concubines 5 Plural Imperialisms and Multiple Diasporas 6 A Taxonomy of Slavery and Slave Trading in Muslim Cultures 7 The Rise and Impact of Abolitionism 8 A Tale of Three Sovereigns—the Shah, the Khedive, and the Sultan 9 The Illusion of Abolition 10 The Reemergence of Slavery and Slave Trading in the Muslim World Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.Trade ReviewWinner of the Portuguese Academy of History Award / Gulbenkian Foundation Award in History 2019 “With his assiduous tracking and identification of the humans trafficked across the Eastern hemisphere, the author has produced a new and slightly provocative standard that is unlikely to be easily duplicated, meanwhile also unwittingly calling attention to the need for even deeper research on some of the circuits of the uglier side of the slave trade, as seen with the Indian Ocean littoral. All in all, this is a commendable work and a great resource for students of medieval Japanese history and Portuguese “expansion.”” – Geoffrey C. Gunn, Nagasaki University, in: Monumenta Nipponica 74/2 (2019) "With no significant primary sources specifically on the Portuguese slave trade, the author has clearly made a prodigious effort to comb through documents at archives in Macau, India, Portugal, Italy, and Spain for references to Asian slaves and to compile an important account of a significant part of Portugal’s trade with Japan. The result is a comprehensive study in English on a topic that has received little attention but will be of interest to a wide range of scholars." – Jan Leuchtenberger, University of Puget Sound, in: The Journal of Japanese Studies 47/1 (2021)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction   Terminology   The Book’s Structure 1 The Chinese Stage   The Chinese Stage   Macao, Kurofune, and the Slave Trade in Japan: The Earliest Evidence   Examples from the Chinese Diaspora 2 The Japanese Stage   The Japanese Stage   The Iberian Union: The Opening of Private Trade between Macao and Manila and Financial Restructuring in Macao   Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Liberation of Macao Ship Slaves 3 The Korean Stage   The Macao Ship and Korean Slaves   European Missionaries and Traders and the Invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi 4 Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave Trade   The End of Korean and Japanese Slavery in the “Nau De Macau” and Its Replacement with Chinese Slavery in the Philippines (1600–14)   The Last Chapter of the Portuguese Presence in Japan 5 The Structure of Portuguese Slavery in Japan   Capture   Other Origins of Japanese Slaves Purchased by the Portuguese   Sale   Transportation   The Society of Jesus and the Ballot System   Price and Number of Slaves 6 Case Studies: Crossing Diasporas   The Chinese Slave Victoria Diaz and the Jewish Conversos   The Japanese slave Gaspar Fernandes and the Jewish Conversos   The 1640 Delegation and the “Korean” Miguel Carvalho   From Slave of the Society of Jesus to Franciscan Priest: The Case of Jerónimo Iyo (伊予)/Geronimo de la Cruz 7 The Iberian World and the Japanese Diaspora   Macao   The Philippines   Goa   Japanese Mercenaries Serving the Habsburgs in Asia   Mexico   Peru   Argentina   Portugal   Spain 8 Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation   From the Reconquista to   Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1550–80   Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1580–1600 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn “To Renew the Covenant”: Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism, Jon R. Kershner argues that Quakers adhered to a providential view of history, which motivated their desire to take a corporate position against slavery. Antislavery Quakers believed God’s dealings with them, for good or ill, were contingent on their faithfulness. Their history of deliverance from persecution, the liberty of conscience they experienced in the British colonies, and the ethics of the Golden Rule formed a covenantal relationship with God that challenged notions of human bondage. Kershner traces the history of abolitionist theologies from George Fox and William Edmundson in the late seventeenth century to Paul Cuffe and Benjamin Banneker in the early nineteenth century. It covers the Germantown Protest, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, Anthony Benezet, William Dillwyn, Warner Mifflin, and others who offered religious arguments against slavery. It also surveys recent developments in Quaker antislavery studies.

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Book SynopsisIn this book Jukka Korpela offers an analysis of the trade in kidnapped Finns and Karelians into slavery in Eastern Europe. Blond slaves from the north of Europe were rare luxury items in Black Sea and Caspian markets, and the high prices they commanded stimulated and sustained a long-distance trade based on kidnapping in special robbery missions and war expeditions. Captives were sold into the Volga slave trade and transported through market webs further south. This business differed and was separate from the large-scale raids carried out on Crimeans for enslavement in Eastern Europe, or the mass kidnappings characteristic of Mediterranean slavery. The trade in Finns and Karelians provides new perspectives on the formation of the Russian state as well as the economic networks of official and unofficial markets in Eastern Europe.

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Book SynopsisLong regarded as disturbing remnants of the Atlantic slave trade, the European forts and castles of West Africa have attained iconic positions as universally significant historical monuments and world heritage tourist destinations. This volume of original contributions by leading Africanists presents extensive new historical views of the forts in Ghana and Benin, providing both impetus and a scholarly basis for further research and fresh debate about their historical and geographical contexts; their role in the slave trade; the economic and political connections, centred on the forts, between the Europeans and local African polities; and their place in variously focused heritage studies and endeavours. Contributors are Hermann W. von Hesse, Daniel Hopkins, Jon Olav Hove, Ole Justesen, Ineke van Kessel, Robin Law, John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu, Jarle Simensen, Selena Axelrod Winsnes†, Larry Yarak.Trade Review'Very significantly, reader and researchers using Forts, Castles And Society In West Africa: Gold Coast & Dahomey will benefit from learning the fortresses roles in what critics have described as the abominable slave trade as well as the economic and political connections, which are centered on the forts, between the Europeans and local African polities; and also their place in various focused heritage studies and endeavors. The 276-page Forts, Castles And Society In West Africa: Gold Coast & Dahomey is a publication that can tremendously benefit college students at all levels as well as researchers and the general reader. Both the editor and the contributors deserve praise in giving an old subject matter a fresh overview to make it an appropriate sequel, where Ghana is concerned, to Professor Albert Van Dantzig’s 1980 pioneering work, Forts and Castles of Ghana'. Nana Abena D. Amoah-Ramey, Indiana University-Bloomington, in African and Asian Studies,18 (2019) pp. 213-231 'The multi-dimensional and thought-provoking nature of this book is a major contribution to our understanding of the West African forts and castles between 1450 and 1960. [...] Osei-Tutu is to be strongly credited for his efforts in bringing together a variety of scholars in order to provide a comprehensive and coherent presentation of what has been, until recently, a mostly sporadic and superficial attention to West African forts and castles'. Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Hampshire College, in African Archaeological Review (2020) 37: 639–641Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Forts, Castles, and Society in West Africa  John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu 2 Gold Coast Forts and Castles: Key Themes and Perspectives  Jarle Simensen 3 ‘Heaven Is High Above, and Europe Is Far Away’, so Christiansborg Prevails  Selena Axelrod Winsnes 4 ‘Creative and Expedient Misunderstandings’: Elmina-Dutch Relations in the 19th Century  Larry Yarak 5 Wax Prints in West Africa: Unravelling the Myth of Dutch Colonial Soldiers as Cultural Brokers  Ineke van Kessel 6William’s Fort: The English Fort at Ouidah, 1680s–1960s  Robin Law 7The Danish Guinea Coast Forts, Denmark’s Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and African Colonial Policy, 1788–1850  Daniel Hopkins 8Political Relations between Osu and Christiansborg, 1803–1826  Ole Justesen 9Cosmopolitan Conundrums: Impacts of Trade Fortresses on the Gã Space, 1450–1870  John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu and Hermann W. von Hesse 10Forts and Castles in the Colonial Period: Uses and Understandings of the Pre-colonial Fortifications  Jon Olav Hove `

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Book SynopsisIn Lobbying in Company, Joris van den Tol argues that people made a difference in the Dutch West India Company colony in Brazil (1630–1654). Through a combination of petitions, personal relations, and public opinion, individuals were able to exercise influence on the decision-making process regarding Dutch Brazil. His thorough analysis of these different elements offers a new perspective on the Atlantic and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century as well as a better understanding of lobbying in the early modern period.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Graphs and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 Lobbying for the Creation of the WIC 1 The Dutch Republic  1.1 The Cities  1.2 Provincial States  1.3 States General  1.4 The Stadtholders  1.5 Conflicting Powersbr/> 2 The West India Company  2.1 Willem Usselincx  2.2 The Layout of the WIC 3 Brazil 4 Conclusion 2 Lobbying in Brazil 1 1624/1630–1636: Ad Hoc Solutions 2 1637–1646: Consolidation and a Prince in the Tropics  2.1 The Diet as a Colonial Tool  2.2 The Brazilian Diet of 1640  2.3 The 81 Petitions of August 1640  2.4 Petitions for Regulations 3 Religious Affairs  3.1 The Power of the Church 4 Slavery  4.1 Access to Institutions for Non-European 5 The Possible Consequence of Top-Down Decision Making  5.1 Johan Maurits’ Reaction  5.2 The Reactions from the Council of Justice and the Ministers 6 Conclusion 3 Trading Regulations or Free Trade 1 The Opening Moves 2 Selecting the Playing Field 3 Making It Count 4 Making It Count Even More 5 The Role of the Amsterdam City Council 6 Delaying a Decision 7 Lobbying to and from the Colony 8 Conclusion 4 Petitioning the Public Sphere 1 What Is the Public Sphere? 2 The Dutch Public Sphere  2.1 Pamphlets and Dutch Brazil 3 Petitions and Public Opinion  3.1 Printed Petitions 4 Multiple Signatures on Petitions  4.1 Group Petitions to the States General 5 Managing Information of the Revolt in Brazil 6 Petitioning the Public Sphere on Brazil 7 Petitioning the Public Sphere on the Atlantic  7.1 Other Forms of Signatures 8 Conclusion 5 Personal Connections and Direct Lobbying 1 Personal Connections and Societal Capital 2 Appointing a New High Government in Brazil 3 Background Issues  3.1 Peace Negotiations in Münster  3.2 A Frisian Chamber in the WIC 4 Information Control 5 Personal Relations 6 Conclusion 6 The Last Hope, 1652–1654 1 The Second Battle of Guarapes 2 Why Was Brazil Lost? 3 The Delegates from Brazil 4 Requesting a Resolution from the States General 5 A Delegation to Friesland  5.1 The Report from the Friesland Commission 6 Accelerating the Admiralties 7 Seizing Momentum 8 Planning for the Future 9 It Is All about the Money  9.1 It Is about the People 10 The Loss of Brazil 11 Conclusion 7 Lobbying for Money in the Aftermath of Dutch Brazil 1 Return to the Republic 2 Claiming Wages 3 Travel Pennies 4 Shared Features 5 The Printed Petition from the Army 6 Conclusion 8 Making the Company Work Appendix A – Free Trade Exports from Brazil in 1637 Manuscript Sources Secondary Literature and Published Sources Index

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Book SynopsisIn Mulatto · Outlaw · Pilgrim · Priest, John K. Moore, Jr. presents the first in-depth study, critical edition, and scholarly translation of His Majesty’s Representative v. José Soller, Mulatto Pilgrim, for Impersonating a Priest and Other Crimes. This legal case dates to the waning days of the Hapsburg Spanish empire and illuminates the discrimination those of black-African ancestry could face—that Soller did face while attempting to pass freely on his pilgrimage from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela and beyond. This bilingual edition and study of the criminal trial against Soller is important for reconstructing his journey and for revealing at least in part the de facto and de jure treatment of mulattos in the early-modern Iberian Atlantic World.Trade Review"There are not many books like this one: it reads like a novel; it is exquisitely written; it is full of suspense and bursting with important new information. [..] The bilingual edition is particularly helpful since it could be used as text in courses dealing not just with Spain, but also in seminars on race in the early modern world. [...] The book is remarkable for the way it reconstructs events through primary manuscript materials. [...] This is a suspenseful and rewarding read, one that is the result of intense archival study, but one that hides its immense erudition through a clear style and a delightful way of telling. This book is a must-read for scholars in a number of areas, from race, to history, to Hispanic studies, and will have a deep impact in our appreciation of early modern culture." Frederick A. de Armas, University of Chicago, in Laberinto Journal 13 (2020) "...nos damos cuenta de la espléndida edición que Moore ha conseguido [..] escrito con profundidad, empatía y rigor [...] una buena y original aportación a los estudios sobre peregrinaciones y, singularmente, sobre las peregrinaciones a Santiago de Compostela..." Antón M. Pazos in Cuadernos De Estudios Gallegos 68 (134):437-41.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Chronology of José Soller Part 1 In Search of Soller 1 The Vineyards 2 The Legal Case against José Soller 3 Origins 4 The Nature of the Journey 5 Reconstructing Locales along the Way 6 On Trial, under Sentence, and in Absentia 7 Into Thin Air Part 2 His Majesty’s Representative versus José Soller, Mulatto Pilgrim, for Impersonating a Priest and Other Crimes: Edition and Translation Note on the Translation Editorial Norms Edition and Translation Part 3 Scholarly Supplement Proper Names in the Dossier Linguistic Variants Scribal Errors Case Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the Guinea Company and its members, aiming to understand the genealogy of several major changes taking place in the English Atlantic and in the Anglo-Africa trade in the seventeenth century and beyond. Little attention has been paid to the companies that preceded the Royal African Company, launched in 1672, and by presenting the Guinea Company – the earliest of England’s chartered Africa companies – and its relationship with the influential men who became its members, this book questions the inevitability of the Atlantic reality of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through its members, the Guinea Company emerged as a purpose-built structure with the ability to weather a volatile trade undergoing fundamental change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Introduction Foundations 1 Launching the Guinea Company, 1618–1630 1 Introduction 2 Members of the Early Guinea Company  2.1 Discoverers and Naval Men  2.2 Court Connections and Financial Trouble 3 The Two Merchants  3.1 John Davies  3.2 Humphrey Slaney 4 The Company in Court 5 Internal Strife 6 The End of the First Patent 7 Conclusion 2 Fit for Purpose: the Guinea Company in the 1630s and 1640s 1 Introduction 2 Format of Trade 3 John Wood and the Guinea Company of the 1640s 4 A 1640s Snapshot 5 Early English Slave Trade – Formal and Informal 6 Conclusion 3 The Honourable Guinea and East India Company, 1640–1663 1 Introduction 2 Why the Coast of Guinea? 3 Potential for Connection 4 Renegotiating the Patent  4.1 Samuel Vassal’s Suggestions and Changes in to the Patent  4.2 An Unfortunate Gambian Adventure  4.3 Gold Mining 5 1657 to 1664: the United East India and Guinea Company on the Coast of Africa 6 The Loss of the Trade 7 Conclusion 4 The Official Push to the West: How to Control the Atlantic? 1 Introduction 2 Practices of the Past, the Case of Virginia 3 The English Civil War 4 A New approach to Colonial Management 5 The Restoration 6 Conclusion 5 Royal Adventurers and the Spanish Asiento 1 Introduction 2 The Company of Royal Adventures Trading into Africa 3 Securing the Asiento 4 Servicing the Asiento 5 English Slave Trading under the Asiento 6 Winding up the company 7 Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1 Africa Company Members Appendix 2 Debtors to the Guinea Company from June 1643 to June 1644 Primary Archival Material Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis anthology addresses and analyses the transformation of interconnected spaces and spatial entanglements in the Atlantic rim during the era of the slave trade by focusing on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and their Caribbean islands of Saint Thomas, Saint Jan and Saint Croix as well as on the Swedish Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. The first part of the anthology addresses aspects of interconnectedness in West Africa, in particular the relationship between Africans and Danes on the Gold Coast. The second part of this volume examines various aspects of interconnectedness, creolisation and experiences of Danish and Swedish slave rules in the Caribbean.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii List of Illustrations ... viii List of Contributors ... x 1 Introduction: Portals of Early Modern Globalisation and Creolisation in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade ... 1 Holger Weiss 2 The Entangled Spaces of Oddena, Oguaa and Osu: A Survey of Three Early Modern African Atlantic Towns, ca. 1650–1850 ... 22 Holger Weiss 3 ‘A Fine Flintlock, a Pair of Ditto Pistols and a Hat with a Gold Galloon’: Danish Political and Commercial Strategies on the Gold Coast in the Early 18th Century ... 68 Fredrik Hyrum Svensli 4 Slave Trade, Slave Plantations and Danish Colonialism ... 101 Per Hernæs 5 Pre-Colonial Visions of a Colony: The Construction of the Pligtarbejder in a Proposed Danish West African Colony ... 140 Jonas Møller Pedersen 6 The Question of Rights in a Colour-Conscious Empire: The Danish West Indies and the Global Age of Revolutions (1800–1850) ... 154 Christian Damm Pedersen 7 The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C.G.A. Oldendorp’s Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West Indies ... 191 Anders Ahlbäck 8 Freedom, Autonomy, and Independence: Exceptional African Caribbean Life Experiences in St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies, in the Middle of the 18th Century ... 218 Louise Sebro 9 Magic, Obeah and Law in the Danish West Indies, 1750s–1840s ... 245 Gunvor Simonsen 10 Thirty-Two Lashes at Quatre Piquets: Slave Laws and Justice in the Swedish Colony of St. Barthélemy ca. 1800 ... 280 Fredrik Thomasson Index ... 307

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Book SynopsisIn The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition, Erik Gøbel offers an account of the well-documented Danish transatlantic slave trade. Denmark was the seventh-largest slave-trading nation with forts and factories on the Gold Coast and a colony in the Virgin Islands. The comprehensive Danish archival material provides the basis for Gøbel’s descriptions of the volume and composition of the slave trade and trade cargoes, as well as the shipping and conditions on board along the Middle Passage. Attention is also paid to the 1791 Danish Slave Trade Commission report and the final decision to abolish the slave trade altogether.Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Diagrams List of Tables Preface Part One: The Danish Slave Trade 1. Introduction 2. Volume and Composition of the Slave Trade and the Trade Cargoes 3. Transatlantic Slave Trade Shipping 4. Slave Trade in the Danish West Indies and in Asia Part Two: Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade 5. Prelude in Denmark prior to 1792 6. Ernst Schimmelmann 7. The Slave Trade Commission and its Report, 1791 8. The Abolition Edict, 1792 9. Transitional Period, 1792–1802 10. Developments after 1803 11. Conclusion Part Three: Sources The Slave Trade Commission’s Report, 1791 The Abolition Edict, 1792 Bibliography Abbreviations Index

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Book SynopsisThe truck system was a global phenomenon in the period 1865-1920, where workers were paid through the company store. In Beyond Racism and Poverty Karin Lurvink looks at how this system functioned on plantations in Louisiana in comparison with peateries in the Netherlands. In the United States, the system is often viewed as a 'second slavery' and strongly associated with racism. In the Netherlands, however, not racism but poverty has been seen as the main reason for its continued existence. By using a variety of historical sources and by analyzing the perspectives of both employers and workers, Lurvink provides new insights into how the truck system worked and can be explained. She reveals how the system was not only coercive but had advantages for the workers as well, which should not be overlooked.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations and Conventions Glossary Introduction  The Truck System—A Nineteenth-Century Global Phenomenon  American Historians Discussing the Truck System—Racism  Dutch Historians Discussing the Truck System—Poverty  Selecting the Research Cases  Rational Choice-Approach  Voice from the Past: Source Material  Outline 1 Bayous and Bogs—The Geography of Isolation  The Louisiana Countryside  Louisiana Rivers, Creeks, Lakes, and Bayous  Railroads—An Improved Connection to the Outside World  Dutch Roads and Highways of Water 2 Truck Payments  Fields of Cotton and Sugarcane  Permanent and Seasonal Peat Lands  Truck Payments   Direct Non-Cash—Something to Eat and a Few Rags to Wear?   Indirect Non-Cash—The Company Store   Colorful Tokens and Handwritten Store Notes   Living off Future Income  Piles of Greenbacks, Dollars, and Guilders  Conclusions 3 Abuse? The Effects of the Truck System  Whiskey, Jenever, and Alcoholics  High Price, Low Quality  Usurious Interest Rates  Debt Peonage  Conclusions 4 Costs and Benefits—The Employer’s Perspective  Costs—The Opposite of the Truck System  Economic Forces and Financial Difficulties   Strapped for Cash   Miserable Years and Declining Profits   ‘The Queerest Looking Creatures’—Labor Supply and Productivity  ‘The Misery of this Time’ and Truck Payment Methods  Conclusions 5 Carrots, Cake, and Candy—The Store as a Positive Incentive  Presents ‘Joyfully Accepted’  Facilitating Commerce   Self-sufficient Little Worlds of Their Own?   The Alternative Marketplace –‘A Welcome Sight to the Rural Resident’   Credit Scarcity  Consumerism and the Physical Artifacts of Modern Life   ‘From Something to Eat, to Something to Work, to Something to Wear’   Shopping in the Peat Employer’s Store—‘The More We Take, the More We Have’   Access to Desires  Conclusions 6 Sticks and Strikes—The Store as a Negative Incentive  Debating and Denouncing the Truck System  ‘No Way to Check the Honesty of the Records’  Lack of Freedom  Racist Truck System?  Conclusions 7 The Power of Racism and Class  Increasing Terror  Declining Resistance  Racism and the Truck System  No Truck, No Job  Lowest Class of Society  Conclusions Conclusion  Main Conclusions  Racism and Poverty  Beyond Louisiana and the Netherlands: Suggestions for Future Research Appendices  Appendix 1. Louisiana Database and Method of Analysis   Creating the Database   Method of Analysis  Appendix 2. Dutch Database and Method of Analysis  Appendix 3. Harry Baptiste and Samuel Taylor—Oral History Interview 2011  Appendix 4. Isolation and Infrastructure Sources  Unpublished Sources   Peateries   Plantation Administrations  Photographs  Tokens  Interviews  Printed Sources  Newspapers  Dutch Newspapers  Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit  Government Documents  Dutch Government Documents  Second Chamber Reports  First Chamber Reports  Maps  Miscellaneous  Published sources  Price Data  Travel Accounts  Miscellaneous Bibliography  Literature  Unpublished Studies Index

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Book SynopsisIn Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, fourteen authors—including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery—engage with the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory. This theory has recently taken the field of Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by the editors was to see if the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory could be applied in the wider context of long-term global history. The results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors have added to the concept of ‘Slaving Zones’, helping to make it one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent of Orlando Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction. Slaving Zones in Global History: The Evolution of a Concept Jeff Fynn-Paul Part I. Slaving Zones to the Dawn of the Modern Era 2 “To Serve Them All the More”: Christian Slaveholders and Christian Slaves in Antiquity Jennifer A. Glancy 3 Christianities in Conflict: The Black Sea as a Genoese Slaving Zone in the Later Middle Ages Hannah Barker 4 Considerations About the Territorial Distribution of Slaves in the Romanian Principalities Viorel Achim 5 Iberia’s Old World Slaving Zones in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods William D. Phillips, Jr. 6 Chasing ‘Caribs’: Defining Zones of Legal Indigenous Enslavement in the Circum-Caribbean, 1493–1542 Erin Stone Part II. Slaving Zones in Modern Times (18th Century-Present) 7 How Useful is the Concept of Slaving Zones? Some Thoughts from the Experience of Dahomey and Kongo John K. Thornton 8 Some Thoughts Concerning the Effects of the European Slave Trade on the Dynamics of Slavery in Madagascar in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Rafaël Thiebaut 9 “Hearing the Sound of the Flute from Zanzibar”: Migrating Communities and Slave Trade Routes in the Indian Ocean Beatrice Nicolini 10 Slave Protection and Resistance in Colonial Mauritius, 1829–1830 Tyler Yank Part III. Slaving Zones in a Post-Abolition World 11 The Price You Pay: Choosing Family, Friends, and Familiarity Over Freedom in the Leeward Islands, 1835–1863 Jessica Roitman 12 Black Bondspeople, White Masters and Mistresses, and the Americanization of the Upper Mississippi River Valley Lead District Jennifer Kirsten Stinson 13 A Female Slaving Zone? Historical Constructions of the Traffic in Asian Women Julia Martinez 14 “Slaving Zones, Contemporary Slavery and Citizenship: Reflections from the Brazilian Case” Alexis Jonathan Martig Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book Jukka Korpela offers an analysis of the trade in kidnapped Finns and Karelians into slavery in Eastern Europe. Blond slaves from the north of Europe were rare luxury items in Black Sea and Caspian markets, and the high prices they commanded stimulated and sustained a long-distance trade based on kidnapping in special robbery missions and war expeditions. Captives were sold into the Volga slave trade and transported through market webs further south. This business differed and was separate from the large-scale raids carried out on Crimeans for enslavement in Eastern Europe, or the mass kidnappings characteristic of Mediterranean slavery. The trade in Finns and Karelians provides new perspectives on the formation of the Russian state as well as the economic networks of official and unofficial markets in Eastern Europe.

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Book SynopsisMaroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation sheds further light on the contemporary modes of Maroon circulation and presence in Suriname and in the French Guiana. The contributors assembled in the volume look to describe Maroon ways of inhabiting, transforming and circulating through different localities in the Guianas, as well as their modes of creating and incorporating knowledge and artefacts into their social relations and spaces. By bringing together authors with diverse perspectives on the situation of the Guianese Maroon at the twenty-first century, the volume contributes to the anthropological literature on Maroon societies, providing ethnographic, and historical depth and legitimacy to the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.

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Book SynopsisIn The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.Trade ReviewWinner of the Portuguese Academy of History Award / Gulbenkian Foundation Award in History 2019Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction   Terminology   The Book’s Structure 1 The Chinese Stage   The Chinese Stage   Macao, Kurofune, and the Slave Trade in Japan: The Earliest Evidence   Examples from the Chinese Diaspora 2 The Japanese Stage   The Japanese Stage   The Iberian Union: The Opening of Private Trade between Macao and Manila and Financial Restructuring in Macao   Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Liberation of Macao Ship Slaves 3 The Korean Stage   The Macao Ship and Korean Slaves   European Missionaries and Traders and the Invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi 4 Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave Trade   The End of Korean and Japanese Slavery in the “Nau De Macau” and Its Replacement with Chinese Slavery in the Philippines (1600–14)   The Last Chapter of the Portuguese Presence in Japan 5 The Structure of Portuguese Slavery in Japan   Capture   Other Origins of Japanese Slaves Purchased by the Portuguese   Sale   Transportation   The Society of Jesus and the Ballot System   Price and Number of Slaves 6 Case Studies: Crossing Diasporas   The Chinese Slave Victoria Diaz and the Jewish Conversos   The Japanese slave Gaspar Fernandes and the Jewish Conversos   The 1640 Delegation and the “Korean” Miguel Carvalho   From Slave of the Society of Jesus to Franciscan Priest: The Case of Jerónimo Iyo (伊予)/Geronimo de la Cruz 7 The Iberian World and the Japanese Diaspora   Macao   The Philippines   Goa   Japanese Mercenaries Serving the Habsburgs in Asia   Mexico   Peru   Argentina   Portugal   Spain 8 Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation   From the Reconquista to   Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1550–80   Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1580–1600 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Possessed by the Right Hand, the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law. See Bernard Freamon live at Rutgers Law School (October 8, 2019). Listen to Possessed by the Right Hand: An Interview with Prof. Bernard Freamon from Network ReOrient on AnchorTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Maps Introduction 1 1 Slavery, Slave Trading and the Law in the Pre-Islamic Middle East 2 Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Islam 3 Slavery and Empire in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Worlds 4 The "Mamluk/Ghulam Phenomenon"—Slave Sultans, Soldiers, Eunuchs and Concubines 5 Plural Imperialisms and Multiple Diasporas 6 A Taxonomy of Slavery and Slave Trading in Muslim Cultures 7 The Rise and Impact of Abolitionism 8 A Tale of Three Sovereigns—the Shah, the Khedive, and the Sultan 9 The Illusion of Abolition 10 The Reemergence of Slavery and Slave Trading in the Muslim World Bibliography Index

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