Heike Raphael-Hernandez (University of Würzburg, Germany), Pia Wiegmink (University of Mainz, Germany)
Germany has long entertained the notion that the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery involved only other European players. Countering this premise, this collection re-charts various routes of German participation in, profiteering from, and resistance to transatlantic slavery and its cultural, political, and intellectual reverberations. Exploring how German financiers, missionaries, and immigrant writers made profit from, morally responded to, and fictionalized their encounters with New World slavery, the contributors demonstrate that these various German entanglements with New...
Germany has long entertained the notion that the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery involved only other European players. Countering this...