"From the revered historian-winner of nearly every award given in his field-the long-awaited conclusion of his magisterial three-volume history of slavery in Western culture that has been more than fifty years in the making. David Brion Davis is one of the foremost historians of…
La 4e de couverture indique : "Hommes d'action, femmes en lutte, écrivains ou artistes, les rebelles ont, un jour, rompu avec les accommodements, les mensonges ou les préjugés de leur temps pour faire de leur vie un combat. S'ils se sont battus avec la plume, c'est qu'ils connai…
1. Neo-abolitionism and transnational advocacy networks : globalising an idea / Gillian Wylie -- 2. From contested to consensus : Swedish politics on prostitution and trafficking / Yvonne Svanstrom -- 3. The Netherlands : analysing shifts and continuities in the governing of sex…
This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences. A model of state policy which aims to abolish prostitution through legislation, Neo-abolitionism criminalises the buyer of sex but not the seller…
"This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences. A model of state policy which aims to abolish prostitution through legislation, Neo-abolitionism criminalises the buyer of sex but not the selle…
Scope and content: "In 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 Islan…
"The story of six children who were stolen from their homes in Africa and sold into slavery across the Atlantic in 1839. They were transported by ship from West Africa to Cuba to the United States, and after protracted legal struggles they returned to Africa to restart their liv…
Aandacht voor de bijzondere positie die vrouwelijke slaven innamen in Noord- en Zuidamerika. In de bijdragen wordt gesteld dat niet alleen haar arbeidskracht werd uitgebuit maar ook hun seksualiteit. In dl 1 'Africa and the Americas' schets van de Afrikaanse achtergrond (cultuur…
