Pub Date : 2021-06-25DOI: 10.1163/2405836x-00602004
Maysa Espíndola Souza
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Pub Date : 2021-01-29DOI: 10.1163/2405836X-00601007
Natalie A. Zacek
This article examines two female slaveholders, one real and one fictional, to explore the relationship between gender and slave management in both history and popular culture. Annie Palmer, the “White Witch of Rose Hall” plantation in Jamaica, although the creation of folklore and journalistic exaggeration, has functioned for a century and a half as a symbol not only of the evils of slavery but of the idea that female slaveholders’ cruelty threatened the system of slavery in a way in which that practiced by males did not. In New Orleans, Delphine Lalaurie, an elite woman renowned for her elegance and piety, became a figure of monstrosity after a house fire of 1834 revealed that her French Quarter mansion held a chamber of horrors for the enslaved, and offered a similar example of the dangers of female power in slave societies. Examining these women’s continuing presence both as historical figures and as characters in novels, television shows, and other creative productions, this article illuminates the strange career of the slaveholding woman, a figure execrated in her own era and misunderstood or ignored in contemporary historiography, yet simultaneously the subject over centuries of prurient cultural fascination.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1163/2405836x-00503002
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1163/2405836x-00503003
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Pub Date : 2020-02-28DOI: 10.1163/2405836x-00501008
Francesca Declich, Marie Rodet
1 A large body of publications has emerged on slavery in the African continent, including among others: Martin A. Klein, “Studying the History of Those Who Would Rather Forget: Oral History and the Experience of Slavery,”History in Africa 16 (1989): 215; Edward A. Alpers, “Recollecting Africa: DiasporicMemory in the IndianOceanWorld,”African Studies Review 43 (1) (2000): 83–99; Rosalind Shaw,Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002); Eric E. Hahonou and Baz Lecocq, “Introduction: Exploring Post-Slavery in Contemporary Africa,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 48, no. 2 (2015): 181–192; Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein, African Slaves, African Masters. Politics, Memories, Social Life (Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2017); Alice Bellagamba. “Yesterday and today. Studying African slavery, the Slave Trade and their Legacies through Oral Sources,” in Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein, eds., African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade. Vol 2: Sources and Methods (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 174–197; Alice Bellagamba. “Living in the shadows of slavery”, OPEN DEMOCRACY (2016) https://www.opendemocracy .net/beyondslavery/alice‐bellagamba/living‐in‐shadows‐of‐slavery, accessed on 10 November 2019; Marie Rodet, “Escaping Slavery and Building Diasporic Communities in French Soudan and Senegal, ca. 1880–1949,” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 48, no. 2 (2015): 363–386; Marie Rodet, “Listening to the History of ThoseWho Don’t Forget,” History in Africa, 40, no. 1 (2013): 27–29; Francesca Declich. “ ‘A free Woman Could Marry a Slavebecause of Hunger’.Memories of Life in Slavery along theNorthernMozambiqueCoast,” in Bellagamba, Greene, and Klein, eds., African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade, 175– 200; Francesca Declich. “ ‘Gendered Narratives,’ History, and Identity: Two Centuries along the Juba River among the Zigula and Shanbara,”History in Africa 22 (1995): 93–122; Francesca Declich, “Shiftingmemories and forcedmigrations: the Somali Zigulamigration toTanzania,” Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, 88, no. 3 (2018): 539–559; Nicholas
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Pub Date : 2020-02-28DOI: 10.1163/2405836x-00501009
Marie Rodet
In 2010 I filmed descendants of formerly enslaved populations in Kayes narrating the history of their ancestors and the realities of internal slavery in West Africa. The result was a 23-minute documentary film entitled “The Diambourou: Slavery and Emancipation in Kayes—Mali,” which was released in 2014. The film was as much responding to specific historiographical questions in the field as a tool of research action to raise awareness among younger generations and to fight legacies of social discrimination today. With the exactions perpetuated against descendants of formerly enslaved populations in the Kayes region since 2018, the film, via its access-free online version, has experienced a second life as an anti-slavery activist medium, helping to bridge the gap between endogenous historical fighting against slavery and contemporary anti-slavery activism in the Soninke diaspora.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-16DOI: 10.1163/2405836x-00402009
Seth Richardson
This contribution looks at Babylonian slaves and servants as they appear in 322 Old Babylonian letters. This corpus has not been used for this purpose before, and now reveals that the primary economic functions of slaves had to do with information and credit in an economic environment of mercantilism, rather than with labor in the agricultural sector. Cuneiform letters, rarely mentioning work, instead emphasized the independent movement of slaves, their delegation as proxies to their masters to conduct business, and their capacity to serve as collateral for loans. The analysis of this evidence permits a deeper look at the ethics of care and control that conditioned the relations of masters and slaves, and what we can now say about the personhood of slaves and servants.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-06DOI: 10.1163/2405836X-00402004
Pernilla Myrne
Women probably made up the majority of the slave population in the medieval Islamic world, most of them used for domestic service. As men were legally permitted to have sexual relations with their female slaves, enslaved women could be used for sexual service. Erotic compendia and sex manuals were popular literature in the premodern Islamic world, and are potentially rich sources for the history of sex slavery, especially when juxtaposed with legal writings. This article uses Arabic sex manuals and slave purchase manuals from the tenth to the twelfth century to investigate the attitudes toward sexual slavery during this period, as well as the changing ethnicities and origins of slaves, and the use of legal manipulations.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-06DOI: 10.1163/2405836X-00402001
Fernanda Bretones Lane, Guilherme de Paula Costa Santos, A. Youssef
This article analyzes the ways that discussions regarding the abolition of the slave trade held at the Congress of Vienna (1814–1815) affected slavery in the Iberian empires. Drawing from newspaper coverage, diplomatic correspondence, and conference minutes, we reassess the conditions under which Portuguese and Spanish agents negotiated with their British counterparts; highlight the Iberian political dilemmas that surfaced at the Congress; and elucidate the plenipotentiaries’ subsequent resolutions addressing the transatlantic slave trade. As a result of the talks held in Vienna, Spanish subjects in Cuba and Portuguese subjects in Brazil established political and diplomatic strategies to support slavery in order to maintain their positions in the world market of tropical goods. In other words, while slavery was undergoing reconfiguration in Brazil and Cuba, slave-owners and their political representatives were forced to engage with the hegemonic, abolitionist discourse systematically established by the British at the Congress in order to formulate their proslavery response. The article thus demonstrates that the Congress of Vienna was integral to the international consolidation of the politics of “second slavery” in the Americas. In other words, Brazil and Cuba were forced to engage with the hegemonic discourse systematically established by the British at the Congress in reconfiguring slavery and formulating their proslavery defense.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-06DOI: 10.1163/2405836x-00402006
J. Allain
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