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Jacob D. Green and Britain’s Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist Network Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Hannah-Rose Murray, Calvin Schermerhorn
Jacob D. Green’s speaking career in England (1863-66) is an exploration of how an independent, self-financed Black speaker became a networked abolitionist building on the achievements of other expa...
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Making Marriages at the ‘End of Slavery’: Religion, Identity, and Law in the Early Colonial French Soudan Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Wallace Teska
This article examines how formerly enslaved people in the early colonial French Soudan (today Mali) negotiated and contested the meanings of marriage at the ‘end of slavery’. Because the abolition ...
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Well Fed but ‘at the Same Time, Well Beaten’: Amelioration in the Seychelles Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jane Hooper
In the years prior to legal emancipation, British officials enacted a series of laws intended to ameliorate the condition of those held in slavery in their colonies. This article investigates the i...
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‘Horrible Enough to Stir a Man's Soul’: Enslaved Men, Emotions, and Heterosexual Intimacy in the Antebellum U.S. South Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Kaisha Esty
This article analyses enslaved men's emotive responses to slavery's sexual economy in the antebellum U.S. South. It joins the growing historical literature on everyday forms of resistance and refus...
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Whose Emotions? Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Hannah Cusworth
This article is intended both as a methodological intervention and as a provocation. It calls on us to think very carefully about how, why and (ultimately) if we should do this work of combining th...
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Introduction Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Beth R. Wilson, Emily West
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2024)
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The Performance and Appearance of Confidence Among the Enslavers of South Carolina and Cuba Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Liana Beatrice Valerio
For decades the public and private documents of enslavers have been examined to produce seminal studies of slavery. This article explores the interval between public and private, exposing it as a l...
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‘Her Work of Love’: Forced Separations, Maternal Grief, and Enslaved Mothers’ Emotional Practices in the Antebellum US South Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Beth R. Wilson
This article considers enslaved mothers’ emotional responses to the separation of their children. While slavery studies scholars have discussed the individual impact sales had on enslaved people, a...
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‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Katherine Burns
This article examines formerly enslaved people’s use of Information Wanted advertisements to reconnect with lost family after the American Civil War. This article argues that physical reunification...
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Trials of Enslavers in Former French Colonies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Testimonies of the Enslaved between Gratitude and Fear Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Teresa Göltl
This article sheds light on a rarely considered aspect of colonial reality: trials of enslavers. The focus lies on lawsuits against members of the slaveholding elite in which enslaved people appear...
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‘Enslavement, Emotions and Oppositional Insolence in the Slave Society of British Guiana’ Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Gordon Gill
Enslavers utilized various methods of physical and psychological violence to effect emotions of terror and fear in their African captives in order to create and maintain systems of enslavement thro...
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Memory, Trauma and ‘Affective Autonomy’: Displaying Emotion and Trauma at the International Slavery Museum Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Matthew Jones
This article attempts to answer the question of how museums might communicate the affective experience of enslavement, and the history of emotions and slavery, to their audiences. By using the Inte...
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The Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison, and Fear in the Antebellum Press Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Erin Austin Dwyer
When enslaved people were accused of poisoning enslavers, it was newsworthy throughout the antebellum United States. Part of the broad appeal of such articles was their malleability; as reports of ...
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Happiness in Havana? Día de Reyes as an Emotional Refuge in Colonial Cuba Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-02-06 William Perez
This article draws on William Reddy’s framework of emotional regimes and refuges to assess marginalized emotionality in colonial Cuba and to position Día de Reyes as an important emotional refuge. ...
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The Re-enslavement of Guadeloupe: Criminal Courts in the Re-establishment of Slavery, 1802–1806 Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Elyssa Gage
While the re-establishment of slavery has become better known, the process by which this return was effected remains understudied. While scholars have examined the return of colour prejudice and th...
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Workers, Wives and Radicals: Women and Abolitionism in the North-East of England, 1792–1865 Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-01-11 F.S. Aird
This article provides a systematic and localized analysis of how female anti-slavery activity in the North-East of England influenced and impacted the transatlantic campaign to abolish slavery in t...
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Rendered Useless: The Business of Slavery, a Sick African Girl, and the Law in Colonial Newport Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Sherri V. Cummings
During the eighteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island stood at the centre of the Transatlantic slave trade, producing commodities like rum to be traded for African captives from Senegambia, the Gold...
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‘Refuge in the British Lines’: Refugees from Slavery and Sanctuary Status in New York City, 1782–1783 Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-12-20 James Mackay
This article explores how Black freedom seekers in New York City gained recognition from the British military as refugees in the twelve months between the signing of the provisional Treaty of Paris...
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A ‘Liberal Solution’ to Slave Emancipation: State Institutions, Party Politics, and the Trials of Political Abolitionism in Mid-1880s Brazil Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Filipe Nicoletti Ribeiro
The article examines slavery and abolitionism in Brazil in the mid-1880s and thereby contributes to historiography and expands our understanding of the Brazilian Empire’s political conflicts in its...
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Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Adrian Brettle
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Caroline Wood Newhall
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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Islamic Tombstones for Slaves from Abbasid-Era Egypt Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jelle Bruning
This article studies tombstones from eighth- to tenth-century CE Egypt that are designed to mark the grave of a Muslim slave. These funerary inscriptions are unusual in that they do not marginalize...
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Editor’s Note: A 40th Anniversary Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Gad Heuman Editor
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World: Texts and Contexts Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jelle Bruning, Said Reza Huseini
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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Al-Ḥakam I in the Andalusi Sources: His Slaves, Eunuchs, and Concubines Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Cristina de la Puente
Al-Ḥakam I (154-206 AH/771-822 CE) is one of the most controversial characters in the history of al-Andalus. Despite the fact that the extant chronicles of the Umayyad emirate and caliphate in al-A...
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Enslavement for Manumission: The Creation of Byzantine ‘Private Subjects’ Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Youval Rotman
The article challenges current perspectives on slavery as ‘unfreedom’ and proposes to examine the enslaved within a socio-political dynamics of power relations. An analysis of four Byzantine docume...
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The Samarra Mutiny of 256/869 Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Matthew S. Gordon
In 256 AH/869 CE, the rank-and-file of the Turkic-Central Asian military in Samarra, the Abbasid imperial centre, rose against their commanders and the caliphal court. This is according to al-Ṭabar...
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Slavery Represented in Bactrian Documents Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Said Reza Huseini
This article addresses the idea and practice of slavery reflected in Bactrian documents. Bactrian documents are found in various parts of modern-day northern Afghanistan, a region broadly correspon...
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Zoroastrian Fire Foundations: A Portrait of Slaves and Slaveholders Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Nazanin Tamari
Throughout the Sasanian era (224-650/1 CE), Zoroastrian Fire Foundations were some of the most significant landowners in Iran. The sources represented in this study reveal that Fire Foundations wer...
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Convicts: A Global History Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Trevor Burnard
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 David Silkenat
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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Household Servants and Slaves. A Visual History 1300–1700 Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Sally Hickson
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 John L. Brooke
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Ana Paula Nadalini Mendes
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Michael Morris
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2022) Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2023)
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‘Sterile Citizens’ & ‘Excellent Disbursers’: Opium and the Representations of Indentured Migrant Consumption in British Guiana and Trinidad Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Jamie Banks
This article examines the representation of Asian indentured migrants as ‘consumers’ in colonial British Guiana and Trinidad. Focusing on the specific case of opium, it explores how attitudes towar...
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Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Gavin Grindon, Jennie Williams, Duncan Hay
This article is a product of the first complete survey of British public representational monuments in the U.K. related to transatlantic slavery, available online at Britishpublicmonumentsrelatedto...
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The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Andrew Sluyter
When deaths among the enslaved and crew occurred during the eighteenth-century voyages of the vessels of the Middelburg Commercial Company, many of the officers who kept logbooks aboard drew skulls...
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Enslavement between Worlds: Manuel Zapata’s Many Captive Mobilities Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Bethan Fisk
ABSTRACT Black Africans who were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean experienced myriad forms of coercion alongside the Middle Passage. This article centres on mobilities of Manuel Francisco Zapata, a Black man of Wolof descent, born and raised a Muslim in Meknes, Morocco. Captured and enslaved by the Spanish, he lived for several years in Seville, and was then trafficked to Cartagena de
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‘She Refused to Be Left Behind’: The Sinews of Modern Day Trafficking in the Late Illegal US-Brazil Slave Trade, ca. 1860s–1880s Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Lloyd Belton
ABSTRACT This article explores how the illegal slave trade between the United States and Brazil evolved in the 1860s–1880s into novel forms of captive mobility that closely resemble modern day human trafficking. It does so by examining the experiences of two Black families who were trafficked by an American ‘Confederado’ colonist. Through a close reading of a diverse array of sources, including government
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Coercion and Enslavement in Motion: An Introduction Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Bethan Fisk, José Lingna Nafafé
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)
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The Journeys of Eleven African Captives to the Mines of Antioquia, New Kingdom of Granada (1573-1589) Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Paola Vargas Arana
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the journeys of eleven African captives up to their arrival in the province of Antioquia in the northern part of the New Kingdom of Granada, where Spanish enslavers had introduced thousands of enslaved people, especially after the 1580 discovery of large gold deposits in Zaragoza. Based on the proof of sales provided in a lawsuit filed in 1589, the article traces the
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‘The People of All Kinds Who Walk Along the Lines’: The Precarious Mobilities of Unfree Workers on Cuba's Early Railroads Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Camillia Cowling
ABSTRACT This article explores the spatial politics of unfree Africans and their descendants who constructed Cuba's pioneering first railroads, and their interactions with those who inhabited the changing landscapes through which the lines ran. Railway workers and local enslaved populations collectively constructed ‘counter-maps’ of the worlds of the lines, repurposing slaveholder-designed spaces and
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Indigenous Freedom Suits, Epistemological Mobilities, and the Deep Archive Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Nancy E. van Deusen
ABSTRACT This article focuses on ways of thinking productively about Indigenous freedom litigation suits, how scholars read that documentary record, whether we can give voice to the voiceless, and how ways of reading litigation records that included records from the ‘deep archive’, namely notorial and parish records, can inform epistemological seeing and knowledge mobilization. It is a cautionary tale
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Female Captive Mobilities and the ‘Countervoyage’ in the Luso-Atlantic World Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Selina Patel Nascimento
ABSTRACT This essay reveals the counter-history of the ‘countervoyage’ in the Luso-Atlantic world. Scholarly attention has recently concentrated on the Middle Passage, the westward West African-New World voyage of enslavement for millions of Africans. However, this article exposes constant captive maritime mobilities sailing east towards Europe from the Americas, conceptualized as the countervoyage
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Captive Mobilities: Movement, Slavery, and Knowledge Production in the Iberian World Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Danielle Terrazas Williams
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)
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Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Michelle Faubert
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)
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Les Mondes de L’esclavage. Une Histoire Comparée Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)
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Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Alain El Youssef
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)
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In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Lydia J. Plath
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)
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Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Clare Finburgh Delijani
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)
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Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial Worlds, 1847-1915 Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Matthew J. Smith
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)
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Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Michael J. Crawford
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)
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Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Alicia Heys
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)
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‘Very Fond of Spirituous Liquors’: Alcohol and Fugitive Black Life in the Slaveholding South Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Kathryn Benjamin Golden
ABSTRACT Hard labour, toil, and the pain and suffering of social and corporeal violence branded enslaved experiences in the slaveholding world of the plantation South. But enslaved people were also simultaneously in constant motion in the making of insuppressible alternative worlds that fundamentally endangered the fragile system of chattel slavery. In everyday acts of self-interest and refusal, enslaved
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Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Tinde van Andel, Harro Maat, Nicholaas Pinas
ABSTRACT Given the few written documents left behind by those who escaped slavery, the analysis of African agency in the transfer of crops and knowledge in the successful establishment of Maroon communities benefits from other disciplines, such as oral history, ethnobotany and linguistics. In this article, we report the way stories of enslaved women, who escaped in the early periods of slave rebellion
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The Hazards of Love: Family Formation Against the Financial Environment of Slavery in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Gregory Jamian Smaldone
In June of 1788, nine enslaved children in French-colonial Haiti identified as ‘orphans’ were leased by their enslaver alongside enslaved adults. How might these enslaved people have described thei...
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Slavery in an Authoritarian Republic: The Policing of Dissent and the Rise of State Slavery in Paraguay (1821–1840) Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Mariana Katz
Paraguay was one of the last states to abolish slavery in the Americas. Yet the history of slavery in this landlocked republic remains understudied. Through a systematic examination of judicial evi...
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‘I Request Charity and Justice’: The Lives of Enslaved and Free African Descent Peoples in New Spain’s North Frontier Slavery & Abolition Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Anderson Hagler
This article illuminates pivotal moments in the lives of eighteen—enslaved and free—African descent peoples listed as mulatto from 1732 to 1803 in New Spain’s north frontier. The records consulted ...