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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
