"One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans who appeared to be slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and sla…
Monstrueuse, la matière de ce livre l'est, pour deux raisons. Le sujet, d'abord : le trafic d'hommes noirs, infâme trafic jusque dans les justifications qu'on a voulu lui trouver. Monstrueuse aussi, son étendue dans l'espace, de l'Afrique à la Méditerranée orientale puis de l'Af…
by Pétré-Grenouilleau, Olivier
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by Pétré-Grenouilleau, Olivier
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Monstrueuse, la matière de ce livre l'est, pour deux raisons. Le sujet, d'abord : le trafic d'hommes noirs, infâme trafic jusque dans les justifications qu'on a voulu lui trouver. Monstrueuse aussi, son étendue dans l'espace, de l'Afrique à la Méditerranée orientale puis de l'Af…
"Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. European countries have never compensated th…
"From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters i…
"While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas. A rich analysis of a complex subject, this study draws on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish p…
"In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778-1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery-as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political struggle-was entangled with the producti…
Der globale Kapitalismus hat seit seiner Entstehung immer schon nicht nur Waren, sondern auch "Rassen" und "Spezies" produziert. Ihm liegt ein rassistisches Denken, eine "schwarze Vernunft" zugrunde, wie der große afrikanische Philosoph und Vordenker des Postkolonialismus Achill…
