Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books

Book SynopsisIn Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs, Riggins R. Earl Jr. investigates how slave owners intentionally manipulated Christianity as they passed it on to slaves and demonstrates how slaves successfully challenged that distorted interpretation. Analyzing slaves’ response to Christianity as expressed in testimonies, songs, stories, and sermons, Earl reveals the conversion experience as the initial step toward an autonomy that defied white control. Contrary to what their white owners expected or desired, enslaved African Americans found in Christianity a life-affirming identity and strong sense of community.Slave owners believed Christianity would instill docility and obedience, but the slaves discovered in the Bible a different message, sharing among themselves the “dark symbols and obscure signs” that escaped the notice of their captors. Finding a sense of liberation rather than submission in their conversion experience, slaves discovered their own self-worth and their values as children of God.Originally published in 1993, Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs traces the legacy of slaves’ embrace of Christianity both during and after the slavery era. In a new introduction, the author places the book within the context of contemporary scholarship on the roots of the African American cultural experience. He argues that any interpretation of this experience must begin with a foundational study of the theological and ethical constructs that have shaped the way blacks understand themselves in relationship to God, their oppressors, and each other.The Author: Riggins R. Earl Jr. teaches at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta.

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Book SynopsisAugust 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. The enslaved people quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their captors to flee. Deploying such illuminating research, The Dawning of the Apocalypse is a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed. Here, Gerald Horne argues forcefully that, in order to understand the arrival of colonists from the British Isles in the early seventeenth century, one must first understand the “long sixteenth century”—from 1492 until the arrival of settlers in Virginia in 1607. During this prolonged century, Horne contends, “whiteness” morphed into “white supremacy,” and allowed England to co-opt not only religious minorities but also various nationalities throughout Europe, thus forging a muscular bloc that was needed to confront rambunctious Indigenes and Africans. In retelling the bloodthirsty story of the invasion of the Americas, Horne recounts how the fierce resistance by Africans and their Indigenous allies weakened Spain and enabled London to dispatch settlers to Virginia in 1607. These settlers laid the groundwork for the British Empire and what became the United States of America.

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Book SynopsisIn 1841, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass formed a partnership that would last a decade and forever change the abolitionist movement. Throughout the stages of their extraordinary alliance, anti-slavery mobilization was accelerated, reaching its height between 1841 and 1851. Centering their arguments on emancipation, women’s equality, and suffrage, the two men worked tirelessly to publicize and recruit for their cause. Their work initiated a new discourse of social reform and critique, positioning the abolition of slavery at the center of progressive social concerns throughout the first half of the nineteenth century Dismantling Slavery is the first book to address these two giants of abolition—Douglass and Garrison—simultaneously. While underscoring the evolution of abolitionist discourse, Dismantling Slavery unveils the true nature of the friendship between Douglass and Garrison, a key ingredient often overlooked by scholars. Drawing on the writings, speeches, and experiences that shaped the two as abolitionists, Nilgün Anadolu-Okur’s groundbreaking study is one account of the ways in which abolitionist discourse was shaped and put to the purposes of moral and democratic reforms. In addition to turning a close eye on the relationship between Douglass and Garrison, Anadolu-Okur also details significant developments that occurred in tandem among other abolitionists and activists of the era, making for a compelling account of this pivotal decade in American history, up until the dissolution of Garrison and Douglass’s partnership. Dismantling Slavery represents a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of abolitionist discourse and will appeal to a wide range of nineteenth-century scholars.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing a variety of disciplinary perspectives and analytical approaches, Celluloid Chains is the most comprehensive volume to date on films about slavery. This collection examines works from not only the United States but elsewhere in the Americas, and it attests to slavery’s continuing importance as a source of immense fascination for filmmakers and their audiences.Each of the book’s fifteen original essays focuses on a particular film that directly treats the enslavement of Africans and their descendants in the New World. Beginning with an essay on the Cuban film El otro Francisco (1975), Sergio Giral’s reworking of a nineteenth-century abolitionist novel, the book proceeds to examine such works as the landmark miniseries Roots (1977), which sparked intense controversy over its authenticity; Werner Herzog’s Cobra Verde (1987), which raises questions about what constitutes a slavery film; Guy Deslauriers’s Passage du milieu (1999), a documentary-style reconstruction of what Africans experienced during the Middle Passage; and Steve McQueen’s Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave (2013), which embodies the tensions between faithfully adapting a nineteenth-century slave narrative and bending it for modern purposes.Films about slavery have shown a special power to portray the worst and best of humanity, and Celluloid Chains is an essential guide to this important genre.

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Book SynopsisSome scholars of Islam have argued that slavery and concubinage are permissible according to the Qur'an and the teachings and practice of the Prophet Muhammad. When faced with dissenting views on the disputed subject of the legitimacy of slavery in Islam, they often respond with a loaded question and a theological trap: "Did the Prophet Muhammad commit a grave moral wrong?" Others advance moral relativism. Georgetown University's Jonathan Brown, for example, controversially maintained that "slavery is wrong," but added the disclaimer that "as a Muslim myself, I cannot condemn it as grossly, intrinsically immoral across space and time. To do so would be to condemn the Qur'an, the Prophet Muhammad and God's law as morally compromised." As Dr. John Andrew Morrow makes clear in Islam & Slavery, there is not a single verse in the Qur'an that commands slavery. Slavery is neither an article of faith nor is it a religious obligation. In fact, the Qur'an encourages and even requires Muslims to emancipate enslaved people. As far as the exponents of Islam's spiritual, moral, ethical, and egalitarian tradition are concerned, the Qur'an, the Prophet, and Islam introduced a system that would reform the practice of slavery and abolish it entirely and forever. As God asks in the Qur'an: "What will make you know what the steep path is? It is the freeing of a slave.

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Book SynopsisWhile previous research on household archaeology in the colonial Caribbean has drawn heavily on artifact analysis, this volume provides the first in-depth examination of the architecture of slave housing during this period. It examines the considerations that went into constructing and inhabiting living spaces for the enslaved and reveals the diversity of people and practices in these settings.Contributors present case studies using written descriptions, period illustrations, architectural features, and other evidence to illustrate the wide variety of built environments for enslaved populations in places including Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the islands of the Lesser Antilles. They investigate how slaves defined their social positions and identities through house, yard, and garden space; they explore what daily life was like for slaves on military compounds; they compare the spatial arrangements of slave villages on plantations based on type of labor; and they show how the style of traditional labor houses became a form of vernacular architecture still in use today.This volume expands our understanding of the wide range of slave experiences across British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies.Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables 1. Household, Village, and Landscape: The Built Environments of Slavery in the Caribbean Elizabeth C. Clay and James A. Delle 2. An Examination of Enslaved and Freed African Housing and Plantations on St. Kitts' Southeast Peninsula Sugar and Cotton Plantations Todd M. Ahlman 3. The Present Past: The Design Legacy of Laborer's Housing in the Landscape of Vernacular Architecture on Nevis Marco Meniketti 4. Building a Better Village?: Transformations in French West Indian Slave Village Architecture from the Ancien Régime to Emancipation Kenneth Kelly 5. Asymmetric Architectures of Enslaved People in Jamaica: An Archaeological Study of Household Variation at Good Hope Estate Hayden Bassett 6. Variation within the Village: Housing Enslaved Laborers on Coffee Plantations in Jamaica James A. Delle and Kristen R. Fellows 7. Humanitarian Reform, Model Cottages, and the Habitational Landscape of Slavery on a Bahama Island Allan D. Meyers 8. Labor and Landscape on the Periphery: Built Environments of Slavery in Nineteenth Century French Guiana Elizabeth C. Clay 9. Royal Enslaved Africans in Christiansted: Exploring the Archaeology of Enslavement in an Urban Caribbean City Alicia Odewale & Meredith D. Hardy 10. Households and Dwelling Practices at the Cabrits Garrison Laborer Village Zachary J. M. Beier 11. Built Environment: Slavery, Materiality, and Useable Pasts Mark W. Hauser References List of Contributors

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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 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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