What Did It Mean to be a wife, woman, or slave in a society in which a land-owning woman was forbidden to lie with her male slave but the same slave might he allowed to take concubines? Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage…
What did it mean to be a wife, woman, or slave in a society in which a land-owning woman was forbidden to lay with her male slave but the same slave might be allowed to take concubines? Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage…
England i foråret 1767. Erasmus Kemp har bragt søfolkene fra faderens slaveskib for retten anklaget for både mytteri og sørøveri og kræver samtidig erstatning for lasten af slaver på skibet. Her møder han dog modstand fra antislavebevægelsen og kaster i stedet sin interesse på d…
De islamiske religiøse idealer medførte, at muslimerne ikke gerne engagerede sig i krig eller regeringsanliggender, hvorfor de gennem tiderne systematisk skaffede sig udenlandske slaver, som blev uddannet og anvendt som professionelle soldater, første gang omkring 815-820, f.eks…
Jo Doezema argues that the current concern with trafficking in women is a modern manifestation of the myth of white slavery. Combining historical analysis with contemporary investigation, the text sheds light on the current preoccupations with trafficking in women
Beskrivelse af stammefolk, der beboede det østlige Afrika, deres levevis og forhold til andre stammefolk, arabiske slavehandlere og europæiske kolonimagter herunder de konflikter og kampe, de blev inddraget i samt deres militære styrke, taktik og våben. De beskrevne stammefolk e…
"Americans tend to assume that modern historiography has produced a full and complete understanding of slavery in the United States, as a shameful pre-modern institution, existing in isolation from America's later success. But while we have long since rejected the idealistic dep…
Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. A sweeping, authoritative history of the expansion of slavery in America, showing how forced migratio…
Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe - the chocolate islands - through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm…
