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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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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 SynopsisSlavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts. Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Hägerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Maps and Table Notes on Contributors Introduction: Slavery, Slave Trading, and Bonded Labor Studies in Asia  Richard B. Allen Part 1: Conceptualizing Slave Status 1 Slavery and Forced Labour in Asia: Status Quaestionis  Anthony Reid 2 Between Slave and Disciple in South Asia  Jessica Hinchy 3 Gender and Slavery in Asia  Shawna Herzog Part 2: Slavery, the State, and Society in East Asia 4 Slavery and the Mongol Empire  Don J. Wyatt 5 Economic, Social, and Legal Aspects of Slavery and Indentured Labor in Late Ming China (1550–1644): What the Huizhou Documents Tell Us  Harriet T. Zurndorfer 6 Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China  Claude Chevaleyre 7 Korea: A Slave Society  Christopher Lovins 8 The Abolition of Slavery, Constitutional Reforms, and Modernity in Late Qing China  Bonny Ling Part 3: Slavery, Servitude, and European Colonialism 9 Slaves, Weavers, and the Peopling of East India Company Colonies, 1660–1730  Michael D. Bennett 10 Slavery, Conflict, and Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines  Stephanie Mawson 11 Pearling and Slavery in the Sulu Zone, 1882–1884: The Letters and Diary of Thomas Henry Haynes  James Francis Warren 12 Slavery through Missionary Lenses: Timor in the Nineteenth Century  Hans Hägerdal 13 Indebtedness, Socio-Cultural Hierarchies, and Unfree Labor on Nineteenth-Century Ceylonese Plantations  Rachel Kurian and Kumari Jayawardena Part 4: Reflections 14 Slavery in Asia and Global Slavery  Jeff Fynn-Paul Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSlavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900 explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery. Contributors are: Viorel Achim, Michel Balard, Hannah Barker, Andrzej Gliwa, Colin Heywood, Sergei Pavlovich Karpov, Mikhail Kizilov, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Maryna Kravets, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Sandra Origone, Victor Ostapchuk, Daphne Penna, Felicia Roșu, and Ehud R. Toledano.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface  Ehud R. Toledano Introduction  Felicia Roșu Part I: The Italian Phase 1. Black Sea Slavery in Genoese Notarial Sources, 13th–15th Centuries  Michel Balard 2. Slavery in the Black Sea Region in Venetian Notarial Sources, 14th–15th Centuries  Sergei Karpov Part II: Slavery and Christianity 3. The Role of Slaves in the Byzantine Economy, 10th–11th Centuries: Legal Aspects  Daphne Penna 4. Christian Slave Traders, Slave Owners, and Slaves in the 13th–15th Centuries  Sandra Origone 5. The Orthodox Church and the Emancipation of Gypsy Slaves in the Romanian Principalities in the 19th Century  Viorel Achim Part III: Raiders and Captives on the Northern Shore 6. “It Was the Poles that Gave Me Most Pain”: Polish Slaves and Captives in the Crimea, 1475–1774  Mikhail Kizilov 7. How Captives Were Taken: The Making of Tatar Slaving Raids in the Early Modern Period  Andrzej Gliwa 8. Captive-Taking in the Ottoman and Crimean Black Sea Region and Unfreedom in the Northern Countries  Maryna Kravets and Victor Ostapchuk Part IV: The Circassian Question 9. What Caused the 14th-Century Tatar–Circassian Shift?  Hannah Barker 10. Slaves of the Crimean Khan or Muslim Warriors? The Status of Circassians in the Early Modern Period  Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska Part V: The Black Sea and Global Slavery 11. People-Taking across the Mediterranean Maritime Frontier, 1675–1714  Colin Heywood 12. Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic and the Black Sea: A Comparative View  Dariusz Kołodziejczyk Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended in the nineteenth century, slave raiding and dealing and the extensive use of slave labor continued into the twentieth century in many parts of Africa. Using primary oral sources such as songs, proverbs, names, and everyday sayings as a basis for critical reflection, the overriding aim of this book is to shift emphasis from conventional historical methodology by exploring previously neglected oral sources. Bringing such sources into the academic conversation proffers new insights relating to victims’ responses and adjustments to slave raiding and trafficking in the late nineteenth century northern Ghana.Trade Review"In this important and well-researched book, Emmanuel Saboro draws from original oral sources to show us how communities in northern Ghana are bearers of a collective memory of the transatlantic and internal trades." - Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History, Howard UniversityTable of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Transcriptions and Translations Introduction: Envisioning the Past in the Present: Hearing the Unsaid  1 Northern Ghana and the Historiography of the Slave Trade  2 Reconfiguring Enslavement and the Slave Trade in Africa: the Place of Oral Tradition  3 Memory/Remembering  4 Sources and Methods  5 Structure of the Book 1 Remembering a Fractured Past: Historicizing Violence, Captivity, and Enslavement in Northern Ghana in the Nineteenth Century  1 Introduction  2 The Gold Coast and the Trans-Atlantic Connection  3 Navigating Histories, Constructing Identities: Geography and People of Northern Ghana, the Bulsa and Kasena in Perspective  4 Post-abolition Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century  5 Asante and the Slave Trade in Northern Ghana in the Nineteenth Century  6 The Zabarima Slave Raiding Hegemony in Northern Ghana  7 “Babatu Has Really Dealt with Me and I Know”: the Portrait of a Ruthless Leader  8 ‘Places, Places Are Still There’: Salaga, a Bloodied Landscape of Captivity, Enslavement, and Dispossession  9 Conclusion 2 The Song as a Cultural and Historical Archive for Reconstructing the Past  1 Introduction  2 The African Song Tradition: a Brief Overview  3 Song Traditions in Northern Ghana: the Bulsa and Kasena in Perspective  4 “They Have Killed Me, Killing of a Different Kind”: Dirges/Laments/Sorrow Songs  5 War and Victory Songs  6 The Bulsa Battle Cry  7 The War Flute  8 Performing Pain: Song, Ritual Dance, and Performance  9 “Singing Rocks”: The Pikworo Slave Camp Songs  10 Conclusion 3 ‘Unspeakable Things Spoken’: Cultural Constructions of Trauma, Mourning Loss  1 Introduction  2 Framing Violence: Metaphorizing the Kanbong (Foreign Enslaver) as the Other  3 Sexual Violence  4 Of Mothering and Motherhood  5 Of Place, Belonging and Home  6 Where There Are No Graves: Metaphorizing Death and Mourning Loss 4 “Sins of Our Fathers”: Re-reading Indigenous Complicity Narratives  1 Notions of Betrayal: the Insider Motif  2 The Politics of Silence: Survival or Complicity?  3 Conclusion 5 “We Are Free at Last”: Local Adaptations and Indigenous Resistance Strategies against Captivity and Enslavement in the Hinterland  1 Introduction  2 “We Have Fled, Fled a Lot”: Flight as a Survival and Resistance Strategy  3 The Landscape and Hollow Trees as “Refuge Sites”  4 Hiding in Hollow Trees  5 Drums of War: Contestations and Deconstructing Notions of Victimhood  6 Animistic Metaphors as Counter Representation Strategies  7 The Lion  8 The Elephant  9 Celebrating Triumph over Tragedy  10 Conclusion Conclusion: Freedom beyond the Wound and the Silences Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOnce the Maroons escaped from slavery and established their communities in the remote interior of Suriname, attention shifted from military threat to internal danger. As they faced these dangers in an unknown rainforest, they sought refuge in prophetic movements directed by charismatic religious leaders. This book charts the history of Okanisi religious movements from their escape to the present day. It is based on sixty years of fieldwork by the late Bonno Thoden van Velzen and Ineke van Wetering, archival research and oral histories. Prophets of Doom is a tribute to Okanisi society and reflects decades of research and dedication.Table of ContentsForeword: Two anthropologists at Work: An Insider’s Perspective Acknowledgements Glossary List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction 1 The Construction of History in Maroon Society 2 The Lost Homeland and the Years of Suffering 3 Loweten: The Great Trek 4 In a Forest Sanctuary 5 The Fight for Supremacy and the Exploration of the Hinterland 6 Peace 7 Dangerous Newcomers 8 A War Like No Other 9 Great Events 10 Saka in Command of the Tribal Obiya 11 New Movements 12 At the Oracle of Gaan Tata 13 A Fury Unleashed 14 The Jungle Commando’s Obiya 15 Demons 16 Hard Facts and the Stories Archival Sources and References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert explores the notion of community in conjunction with literary works concerned with the transatlantic slave trade. The recent surge of interest in both slave trade and community studies concurs with the return of free-market ideology, which once justified and facilitated the exponential growth of the slave trade. The motif of unbridled capitalism recurs in all the works discussed herein; however, community, whether racial, political, utopian, or conceptual, emerges as a fitting frame of reference to reveal unsuspected facets of the relationships between all involved parties, and expose the ramifications of the trade across time and space. Ultimately, this book calls for a complete reevaluation of what it means to live together.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  Introduction  1 The Slave Trade and Racial Community: Tamango and Roots  2 Patriotism and Political Communities: Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage  3 Community as Utopia: Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger  4 Rethinking the Slave Trade/Rethinking Community: Édouard Glissant’s “Relation” and Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Being-with”  Conclusion  Works Cited  Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi valley during the nineteenth-century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Abbreviations Introduction  1 Free Soil and Spaces of Freedom in the Age of the Second Slavery  2 Historiographies and Insights  3 Sources and Outline Part 1: Fleeing Slavery 1 Experiencing Slavery, Imagining Freedom  1 Introduction  2 “A Spirit of Great Insubordination”: Mexico as Imagined Land of Freedom for African Americans  3 Relatives and Loved Ones  4 “Por maltrato”: The Second Slavery’s Violence and Serial Runaways  5 “Más mal que lo corriente”: Paternalism, (Broken) Compromises and Conflicts  6 The Intersection of Gender, Age and Qualifications  7 Conclusion 2 Geography, Mobility and Networks: Escaping through the US-Mexico Borderlands  1 Introduction  2 Easing Mobility: Spatial and Material Strategies  3 Abolitionists, Smugglers and Scapegoats  4 Cracking Down on Mobility: Legal and Extra-Legal Violence in the Borderlands  5 Conclusion Part 2: Crafting Freedom 3 Self-Liberated Slaves and Asylum in Northeastern Mexico, 1803–1836  1 Introduction  2 Slave Refugees in Late Colonial New Spain (1803–1821)  3 Self-Liberated Slaves in Early Independent Mexico (1821–1836)  4 Conclusion 4 “Mexico Was Free! No Slave Clanked His Chains under Its Government”: Contests over Mexico’s Free Soil, 1836–1861  1 Introduction: The Texas Revolution and the Political Landscape of Slavery and Freedom  2 The Disputed Making of Mexico’s Free Soil after 1836  3 US Refugees from Slavery and Their Contested Settlement in Mexico  4 Free Soil and Escaped Slaves in-between Conflicting States and Allegiances  5 Conclusion Conclusion: “Mexico Will Assuredly Be Overrun by the Slaves from the Southern States”: The Making of Free Soil, The Unmaking of the Second Slavery  1 The Making of Free Soil  2 The Unmaking of the Second Slavery Appendix 1: The Process of Abolition of Slavery in Early Independent Mexico following the Federalist Constitution of 1824 Appendix 2: José Joaquín Ugarte to Señor Brigadier Marqués de Casa Calvo [Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O’Farrill], Nacogdoches, 11 September 1804 Glossary of Spanish Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSlavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts. Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Hägerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Maps and Table Notes on Contributors Introduction: Slavery, Slave Trading, and Bonded Labor Studies in Asia  Richard B. Allen Part 1: Conceptualizing Slave Status 1 Slavery and Forced Labour in Asia: Status Quaestionis  Anthony Reid 2 Between Slave and Disciple in South Asia  Jessica Hinchy 3 Gender and Slavery in Asia  Shawna Herzog Part 2: Slavery, the State, and Society in East Asia 4 Slavery and the Mongol Empire  Don J. Wyatt 5 Economic, Social, and Legal Aspects of Slavery and Indentured Labor in Late Ming China (1550–1644): What the Huizhou Documents Tell Us  Harriet T. Zurndorfer 6 Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China  Claude Chevaleyre 7 Korea: A Slave Society  Christopher Lovins 8 The Abolition of Slavery, Constitutional Reforms, and Modernity in Late Qing China  Bonny Ling Part 3: Slavery, Servitude, and European Colonialism 9 Slaves, Weavers, and the Peopling of East India Company Colonies, 1660–1730  Michael D. Bennett 10 Slavery, Conflict, and Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines  Stephanie Mawson 11 Pearling and Slavery in the Sulu Zone, 1882–1884: The Letters and Diary of Thomas Henry Haynes  James Francis Warren 12 Slavery through Missionary Lenses: Timor in the Nineteenth Century  Hans Hägerdal 13 Indebtedness, Socio-Cultural Hierarchies, and Unfree Labor on Nineteenth-Century Ceylonese Plantations  Rachel Kurian and Kumari Jayawardena Part 4: Reflections 14 Slavery in Asia and Global Slavery  Jeff Fynn-Paul Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSlavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900 explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery. Contributors are: Viorel Achim, Michel Balard, Hannah Barker, Andrzej Gliwa, Colin Heywood, Sergei Pavlovich Karpov, Mikhail Kizilov, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Maryna Kravets, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Sandra Origone, Victor Ostapchuk, Daphne Penna, Felicia Roșu, and Ehud R. Toledano.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface  Ehud R. Toledano Introduction  Felicia Roșu Part I: The Italian Phase 1. Black Sea Slavery in Genoese Notarial Sources, 13th–15th Centuries  Michel Balard 2. Slavery in the Black Sea Region in Venetian Notarial Sources, 14th–15th Centuries  Sergei Karpov Part II: Slavery and Christianity 3. The Role of Slaves in the Byzantine Economy, 10th–11th Centuries: Legal Aspects  Daphne Penna 4. Christian Slave Traders, Slave Owners, and Slaves in the 13th–15th Centuries  Sandra Origone 5. The Orthodox Church and the Emancipation of Gypsy Slaves in the Romanian Principalities in the 19th Century  Viorel Achim Part III: Raiders and Captives on the Northern Shore 6. “It Was the Poles that Gave Me Most Pain”: Polish Slaves and Captives in the Crimea, 1475–1774  Mikhail Kizilov 7. How Captives Were Taken: The Making of Tatar Slaving Raids in the Early Modern Period  Andrzej Gliwa 8. Captive-Taking in the Ottoman and Crimean Black Sea Region and Unfreedom in the Northern Countries  Maryna Kravets and Victor Ostapchuk Part IV: The Circassian Question 9. What Caused the 14th-Century Tatar–Circassian Shift?  Hannah Barker 10. Slaves of the Crimean Khan or Muslim Warriors? The Status of Circassians in the Early Modern Period  Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska Part V: The Black Sea and Global Slavery 11. People-Taking across the Mediterranean Maritime Frontier, 1675–1714  Colin Heywood 12. Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic and the Black Sea: A Comparative View  Dariusz Kołodziejczyk Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended in the nineteenth century, slave raiding and dealing and the extensive use of slave labor continued into the twentieth century in many parts of Africa. Using primary oral sources such as songs, proverbs, names, and everyday sayings as a basis for critical reflection, the overriding aim of this book is to shift emphasis from conventional historical methodology by exploring previously neglected oral sources. Bringing such sources into the academic conversation proffers new insights relating to victims’ responses and adjustments to slave raiding and trafficking in the late nineteenth century northern Ghana.Trade Review"In this important and well-researched book, Emmanuel Saboro draws from original oral sources to show us how communities in northern Ghana are bearers of a collective memory of the transatlantic and internal trades." - Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History, Howard UniversityTable of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Transcriptions and Translations Introduction: Envisioning the Past in the Present: Hearing the Unsaid  1 Northern Ghana and the Historiography of the Slave Trade  2 Reconfiguring Enslavement and the Slave Trade in Africa: the Place of Oral Tradition  3 Memory/Remembering  4 Sources and Methods  5 Structure of the Book 1 Remembering a Fractured Past: Historicizing Violence, Captivity, and Enslavement in Northern Ghana in the Nineteenth Century  1 Introduction  2 The Gold Coast and the Trans-Atlantic Connection  3 Navigating Histories, Constructing Identities: Geography and People of Northern Ghana, the Bulsa and Kasena in Perspective  4 Post-abolition Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century  5 Asante and the Slave Trade in Northern Ghana in the Nineteenth Century  6 The Zabarima Slave Raiding Hegemony in Northern Ghana  7 “Babatu Has Really Dealt with Me and I Know”: the Portrait of a Ruthless Leader  8 ‘Places, Places Are Still There’: Salaga, a Bloodied Landscape of Captivity, Enslavement, and Dispossession  9 Conclusion 2 The Song as a Cultural and Historical Archive for Reconstructing the Past  1 Introduction  2 The African Song Tradition: a Brief Overview  3 Song Traditions in Northern Ghana: the Bulsa and Kasena in Perspective  4 “They Have Killed Me, Killing of a Different Kind”: Dirges/Laments/Sorrow Songs  5 War and Victory Songs  6 The Bulsa Battle Cry  7 The War Flute  8 Performing Pain: Song, Ritual Dance, and Performance  9 “Singing Rocks”: The Pikworo Slave Camp Songs  10 Conclusion 3 ‘Unspeakable Things Spoken’: Cultural Constructions of Trauma, Mourning Loss  1 Introduction  2 Framing Violence: Metaphorizing the Kanbong (Foreign Enslaver) as the Other  3 Sexual Violence  4 Of Mothering and Motherhood  5 Of Place, Belonging and Home  6 Where There Are No Graves: Metaphorizing Death and Mourning Loss 4 “Sins of Our Fathers”: Re-reading Indigenous Complicity Narratives  1 Notions of Betrayal: the Insider Motif  2 The Politics of Silence: Survival or Complicity?  3 Conclusion 5 “We Are Free at Last”: Local Adaptations and Indigenous Resistance Strategies against Captivity and Enslavement in the Hinterland  1 Introduction  2 “We Have Fled, Fled a Lot”: Flight as a Survival and Resistance Strategy  3 The Landscape and Hollow Trees as “Refuge Sites”  4 Hiding in Hollow Trees  5 Drums of War: Contestations and Deconstructing Notions of Victimhood  6 Animistic Metaphors as Counter Representation Strategies  7 The Lion  8 The Elephant  9 Celebrating Triumph over Tragedy  10 Conclusion Conclusion: Freedom beyond the Wound and the Silences Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Iberian world played a key role in the global trade of enslaved people from the 15th century onwards. Scholars of Iberian forms of slavery face challenges accessing the subjectivity of the enslaved, given the scarcity of autobiographical sources. This book offers a compelling example of innovative methodologies that draw on alternative archives and documents, such as inquisitorial and trial records, to examine enslaved individuals' and collective subjectivities under Iberian political dominion. It explores themes such as race, gender, labour, social mobility and emancipation, religion, and politics, shedding light on the lived experiences of those enslaved in the Iberian world from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Contributors are: Magdalena Candioti, Robson Pedroso Costa, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, James Fujitani, Michel Kabalan, Silvia Lara, Marta Macedo, Hebe Mattos, Michelle McKinley, Sophia Blea Nuñez, Fernanda Pinheiro, João José Reis, Patricia Faria de Souza, Lisa Surwillo, Miguel Valerio and Lisa Voigt.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Prologue: Understanding the Voice of the Enslaved in the Iberian World  João José Reis Introduction: Slave Subjectivities—Studying Absences?   ngela Barreto Xavier, Cristina Nogueira da Silva, and Michel Cahen Part 1: Slave Subjectivities in Asia 1 ‘Where All Yndios Are Free’  Identity, Resistance, and Dissonant Perceptions about the Enslavement of Japanese in the Iberian World (16th–17th Centuries)  Rômulo da Silva Ehalt 2 The Concubine Slaves of the Portuguese in the China Sea Region  James Fujitani 3 From Asia to Lisbon  Fragments of Lives and Subjectivities of the Enslaved (16th–17th Centuries)  Patricia Souza de Faria Part 2: Subjectivities in the Context of Labour and Religion 4 Work and Identity in the Case of Elena/o de Céspedes  Sophia Blea Nuñez 5 “Pública Notícia”  Black Brotherhoods and Corporate Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Brazil  Lisa Voigt 6 Creolizing Death  Afro-Catholic Deathways in the Early Modern Iberian World  Miguel A. Valerio 7 Black Masters  A Study on Slave-Owning Slaves, 1790–1850, Pernambuco, Brazil  Robson Pedrosa Costa 8 The Qurʾan in My Notebook  Slavery, Revolt and the Teaching of Arabic in the 1830s Bahia, Brazil  Michel Kabalan Part 3: Social Mobility and Emancipation 9 Central African Echoes in the Wilds of Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century)  Silvia Hunold Lara 10 Henrique Dias and the Portuguese Empire: Narrative, Subjectivity and Memory  Hebe Mattos 11 Against ‘Unjust Captivity’  Lisbon’s Brotherhoods of Black and ‘Pardo’ Men’s Litigious Action and the Struggle for the End of Slavery in the Kingdom of Portugal  Fernanda Domingos Pinheiro 12 Negotiating Emancipation and Social Mobility  Crosscrossed Biographies of Africans and Afrodescendants in the Río de la Plata (1810–1840)  Magdalena Candioti 13 Petitioning from the Body: Cuba and Spain in 1873  Lisa Surwillo 14 Displacement, Work and Confinement: Plantation Workers in São Tomé  Marta Macedo Postface: Enslavement, Race, Liberty and Emotion  Michelle A. McKinley Index

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the final process of slavery in Morocco, unraveling the contemporary roots of servility and stereotypes about blackness in the Arab world. Unlike other generalist analyses, this research focuses on the practice of servitude through a case study in the city of Tetouan. Until well into the twentieth century, bought women arrived in the city to join the domestic labor market, also becoming signs of social distinction. This historical ethnography is paradigmatic in reconstructing the relations between masters and domestics of slave origin, putting names and faces to subaltern people to rescue them from oblivion.

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Book SynopsisOnce the Maroons escaped from slavery and established their communities in the remote interior of Suriname, attention shifted from military threat to internal danger. As they faced these dangers in an unknown rainforest, they sought refuge in prophetic movements directed by charismatic religious leaders. This book charts the history of Okanisi religious movements from their escape to the present day. It is based on sixty years of fieldwork by the late Bonno Thoden van Velzen and Ineke van Wetering, archival research and oral histories. Prophets of Doom is a tribute to Okanisi society and reflects decades of research and dedication.Table of ContentsForeword: Two anthropologists at Work: An Insider’s Perspective Acknowledgements Glossary List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction 1 The Construction of History in Maroon Society 2 The Lost Homeland and the Years of Suffering 3 Loweten: The Great Trek 4 In a Forest Sanctuary 5 The Fight for Supremacy and the Exploration of the Hinterland 6 Peace 7 Dangerous Newcomers 8 A War Like No Other 9 Great Events 10 Saka in Command of the Tribal Obiya 11 New Movements 12 At the Oracle of Gaan Tata 13 A Fury Unleashed 14 The Jungle Commando’s Obiya 15 Demons 16 Hard Facts and the Stories Archival Sources and References Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi valley during the nineteenth-century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Abbreviations Introduction  1 Free Soil and Spaces of Freedom in the Age of the Second Slavery  2 Historiographies and Insights  3 Sources and Outline Part 1: Fleeing Slavery 1 Experiencing Slavery, Imagining Freedom  1 Introduction  2 “A Spirit of Great Insubordination”: Mexico as Imagined Land of Freedom for African Americans  3 Relatives and Loved Ones  4 “Por maltrato”: The Second Slavery’s Violence and Serial Runaways  5 “Más mal que lo corriente”: Paternalism, (Broken) Compromises and Conflicts  6 The Intersection of Gender, Age and Qualifications  7 Conclusion 2 Geography, Mobility and Networks: Escaping through the US-Mexico Borderlands  1 Introduction  2 Easing Mobility: Spatial and Material Strategies  3 Abolitionists, Smugglers and Scapegoats  4 Cracking Down on Mobility: Legal and Extra-Legal Violence in the Borderlands  5 Conclusion Part 2: Crafting Freedom 3 Self-Liberated Slaves and Asylum in Northeastern Mexico, 1803–1836  1 Introduction  2 Slave Refugees in Late Colonial New Spain (1803–1821)  3 Self-Liberated Slaves in Early Independent Mexico (1821–1836)  4 Conclusion 4 “Mexico Was Free! No Slave Clanked His Chains under Its Government”: Contests over Mexico’s Free Soil, 1836–1861  1 Introduction: The Texas Revolution and the Political Landscape of Slavery and Freedom  2 The Disputed Making of Mexico’s Free Soil after 1836  3 US Refugees from Slavery and Their Contested Settlement in Mexico  4 Free Soil and Escaped Slaves in-between Conflicting States and Allegiances  5 Conclusion Conclusion: “Mexico Will Assuredly Be Overrun by the Slaves from the Southern States”: The Making of Free Soil, The Unmaking of the Second Slavery  1 The Making of Free Soil  2 The Unmaking of the Second Slavery Appendix 1: The Process of Abolition of Slavery in Early Independent Mexico following the Federalist Constitution of 1824 Appendix 2: José Joaquín Ugarte to Señor Brigadier Marqués de Casa Calvo [Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O’Farrill], Nacogdoches, 11 September 1804 Glossary of Spanish Terms Bibliography Index

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