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Title Slaving zones : cultural identities, ideologies, and institutions in the evolution of global slavery / edited by Jeff Fynn-Paul and Damian Pargas
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 364 pages)
Series Studies in Global Slavery, 2405-4585 ; Volume 4
Studies in global slavery ; v. 4.
Contents Introduction. Slaving zones in global history: the evolution of a concept / Jeff Fynn-Paul -- "To serve them all the more": Christian slaveholders and Christian slaves in antiquity / Jennifer A. Glancy -- Christianities in conflict: the Black Sea as a Genoese slaving zone in the later middle ages / Hannah Barker -- Considerations about the territorial distribution of slaves in the Romanian principalities / Viorel Achim -- Iberia's old world slaving zones in the late medieval and early modern periods / William D. Phillips, Jr. -- Chasing 'Caribs': defining zones of legal Indigenous enslavement in the circum-Caribbean, 1493-1542 / Erin Stone -- How useful is the concept of slaving zones? Some thoughts from the experience of Dahomey and Kongo / John K. Thornton -- Some thoughts concerning the effects of the European slave trade on the dynamics of slavery in Madagascar in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Rafaël Thiébaut -- "Hearing the sound of the flute from Zanzibar": migrating communities and slave trade routes in the Indian ocean / Beatrice Nicolini -- Slave protection and resistance in colonial Mauritius, 1829-1830 / Tyler Yank -- The price you pay: choosing family, friends, and familiarity over freedom in the Leeward Islands, 1835-1863 / Jessica Roitman -- Black bondspeople, white masters and mistresses, and the Americanization of the upper Mississippi River Valley lead district / Jennifer Kirsten Stinson -- A female slaving zone? Historical constructions of the traffic in Asian women / Julia Martinez -- Slaving zones, contemporary slavery and citizenship: reflections from the Brazilian case / Alexis Jonathan Martig
Summary In 'Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery', fourteen authors - including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery - engage with the 'Slaving Zones' theory. This theory has recently taken the field of Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by the editors was to see if the ̀Slaving Zones' theory could be applied in the wider context of long-term global history. The results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors have added to the concept of ̀Slaving Zones', helping to make it one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent of Orlando Patterson's 'Slavery and Social Death'
Through engagement with the 'Slaving Zones' theory, our authors elucidate new and complimentary ways in which identity, law, custom, political organization, and definitions of 'self' and 'other' have impacted the course of global slavery from ancient times through the present
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Slavery -- History
Enslaved persons -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Slavery
Enslaved persons
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Fynn-Paul, Jeff, editor
Pargas, Damian Alan, editor
ISBN 9789004356481
9004356487