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The fight against slavery in Mauritania is more than 40 years old, but over the past decade it has become more prominent, driven by IRA Mauritanie (Initiative pour la résurgence du mouvement abolitionniste en Mauritanie), a non-violent organization led by the abolitionist leader Biram Dah Abeid. Dra...

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After the Haitian Revolution, black populations in the West Indies were "forgotten"; they became politically invisible, even an obstacle, as they were considered a socio-political danger. Towards the mid-19th century, when the abolition of slavery was being discussed in the French parliame...

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The article examines slavery in the Brazilian countryside by mapping available data on releases of slave laborers and denunciations of slavery cases. It analyzes the distribution of the phenomenon in Brazil, identifies situations related to slavery, and builds composite probability indices of the pr...

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Quibdó, the frontier, majority-black capital of Chocó on the Pacific Coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), was declared to be in a state of “general alarm” when a free black woman launched a street protest after her enslaved grandson, Justo, was murdered by his Italian master in August 1836....

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This study explores the concept of wage slavery as a socioeconomic challenge by analysing its different aspects and manifestations as documented in academic research. The study investigates publication trends, sources, country contributions, authorship, keywords, and thematic areas, alongside quali...

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A ascensão de campesinatos caribenhos, após a escravidão, ocorreu em várias épocas nas diferentes colônias, marcada em todas elas pela luta dos senhores de engenho para impedir o acesso dos libertos a quaisquer forças produtivas. Este artigo trata de diversas colônias ao relatar como, em cada cas...

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American History textbooks and public history sites of the eastern United States are replete with fact and fiction about the American Civil War (1861-1865). The Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, in the northwestern part of the state, for example, saw its share of conflict and the presence of “gr...

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This introduction provides some historical and conceptual coordinates for a comparative analysis of the multifarious ethnographic manifestations and performative powers of the “racial legacies” of slavery in contemporary contexts in West Africa, North Africa and the Middle East. What is the connecti...

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The ʿAbid Ghbonton are a black community of slave descendants who live in southern Tunisia next to their former masters to whom they were tied under a fictive familiar bond and for whom they performed jobs occasionally for free in the post-abolition period. Nowadays, they are no longer professionall...

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This article was published open access under a CC BY licence through the support of the Open Library of Humanities: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

After the abolition of slavery towards the end of the Ottoman Empire, the majority of freed black slaves who remained in Anatolia were taken to state “guesthouses” in a number of cities throughout the Empire, the most important of which was in Izmir. Despite their longstanding presence, the descenda...

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O presente trabalho parte da constatação da natureza relativamente anódina dos estudos acerca dos quilombos em sociedades escravistas nas Américas, os quais não raro juntam em uma única categoria (quilombos, cumbes, palenques, mainels etc.) estruturas que podiam englobar menos de uma dezena de fugit...

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The illegal cultivation of cannabis in the UK is a serious problem that can involve the exploitation of vulnerable migrant populations who are trafficked to work as cannabis growers under conditions of debt bondage and modern slavery. Although there is much public interest in modern slavery and huma...

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In the article “Dans la peau d’un noir au Maroc” (SlateAfrique 2012), the Senegalese journalist Bassirou Ba describes the prejudice he has encountered as a black-skinned person in Morocco. Ba’s testimony is part of an ongoing debate, both in Morocco and in North Africa more broadly, about the issue...

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Arba’īn names the Shi’a elegiac ritual commemorating the fortieth day of ‘Āshūrā – the 7th century murder of Husayn at the Battle of Karbala. In South Iranian provinces like Būshihr Arba’īn expresses a distinctly black character marked by animation and drumming virtuosity. Iranian filmmaker Nāsir Ta...

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During the first half of the XIXth century, the big landlords of Cuba began to consider that it was in their interest to treat their slaves better, as the rare commodity had become expensive. Without the slightest consideration for their victims, the slave-owners imagined a policy known as the “good...

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The article discusses the relationship between slavery and cultural history within institutional rare book collections. Beginning with an overview of the media controversy which was caused by the British Library’s publication of an internal document that noted Ted Hughes’ slave-owning ancestors, it...

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