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

ISBN-13: 9783643103451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str.

Michael Zeuske; Ulrike Schmieder; Katja Fllberg-Stolberg

Opis

For centuries, social and economic relations within the Atlantic space were dominated by slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. However, when the trade ended, slave labor in America was replaced, by other forms of coerced labor. This book focuses on the transformation of societies after the slave trade and slavery. It combines micro- and macro-historical approaches and looks at the agency of slaves, missionaries, abolitionists, state officials, seamen, and soldiers.