Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries

ISBN-13: 9781316637364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 376 str.

Elizabeth Swanson; James Brewer Stewart

Opis

Exposes the historical roots of modern-day slavery, using lessons from the past to empower activism against such exploitation everywhere.

Recenzje

'Coming at the subject from different disciplines and with interests in both the past and present, the authors make a compelling case that we must understand that slavery will continue to evolve if we let down our guard or choose to rest comfortably in the illusion that it is no more.' Michael Guasco, The Journal of American History

Spis treści

List of figures; List of contributors; Preface: solidarity of the ages David Blight; Acknowledgments; Introduction: getting beyond chattel slavery James Brewer Stewart and Elizabeth Swanson; Part I. Understanding and Defining Slavery, Then and Now: 1. Contemporary slavery in historical perspective David Richardson; 2. Slavery as civic death: making sense of modern slavery in historical context James Sidbury; 3. From statute to amendment and back again: the evolution of American slavery and antislavery law Allison Mileo Gorsuch; Part II. Forms of Slavery, Past and Present: 4. Kidnappers and subcontractors: historical perspectives on human trafficking John Donoghue; 5. Maritime bondage: comparing past and present Kerry Ward; 6. 'All boys are bound to someone': reimagining freedom in the history of child slavery Anna Mae Duane; 7. From white slavery to anti-prostitution, the long view: law, policy and sex trafficking Jessica R. Pliley; Part III. The Lessons and Solutions of History for Today: 8. All the ships that never sailed: lessons for the modern antislavery movement from the British naval campaigns against the Atlantic slave trade Dave Blair; 9. Defending slavery, denying slavery: rhetorical strategies of the contemporary sex worker rights movement in historical context Elizabeth Swanson and James Brewer Stewart; 10. The power of the past in the present: the capital of the confederacy as an antislavery city Monti Narayan Datta and James Brewer Stewart; An annotated bibliography for further research; Index.