The End of Slavery in Africa and the Americas: A Comparative Approach

The End of Slavery in Africa and the Americas: A Comparative Approach
ISBN-10
364310345X
ISBN-13
9783643103451
Category
History
Pages
170
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
LIT Verlag Münster
Authors
Michael Zeuske, Ulrike Schmieder, Katja Füllberg-Stolberg

Description

For centuries social and economic relations within the Atlantic space were dominated by slavery and the transatlantic slave trade from Africa to the Americas. By the slowly and arduously achieved end of this trade, slave labour in the Americas was replaced in many cases by other forms of coerced labour of African Caribbean people or Indian, Chinese, African or European immigrants. This book focuses on the transformation of societies after the slave trade and slavery in a comparative intercontinental perspective. It combines micro- and macro-historical approaches and looks at the agency of slaves, missionaries, abolitionists, state officials, seamen and soldiers.

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