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A poem on the inhumanity of the slave-trade : humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Frederick, Earl of Bristol, bishop of Derry &c. &c.
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Year: 1788 Publisher: London Printed for C.G.J. and J. Robinson

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Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa
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ISBN: 9781847016027 9781847016034 1847016022 1847016030 9789970027279 9970027271 0821417924 9780821417928 0821417932 9780821417935 9781782049883 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford Currey

Slow death for slavery : the course of abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936
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ISBN: 0521374693 052144702X 051156306X 9780511563065 9780521374699 9780521447027 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book examines the gradual decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria during the first forty years of colonial rule. At the time of the British conquest, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest slave societies in modern history. The authors have written a thoughtful and provocative book which raises doubts over the moral legitimacy of both the Sokoto Caliphate and the colonial state. They chart the development of British colonial policy towards resolving the dilemma of slavery and how to end it.


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Slavery and emancipation in Islamic East Africa : from honor to respectability
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ISBN: 9781107025820 9781139198837 9781107533783 9781107336612 1107336619 1139198831 1299257488 9781299257481 9781107334953 1107334950 1107025826 1107326850 9781107326859 1107236428 9781107236424 1107533783 1107332532 9781107332539 1107333296 9781107333291 1107335787 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Examining the process of abolition on the island of Pemba off the East African coast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honour among all classes of people on the island. By examining the social vulnerability of ex-slaves and the former slave-owning elite caused by the abolition order of 1897, this study argues that moments of resistance on Pemba reflected an effort to mitigate vulnerability rather than resist the hegemonic power of elites or the colonial state. As the meaning of the Swahili word heshima shifted from honour to respectability, individuals' reputations came under scrutiny and the Islamic kadhi and colonial courts became an integral location for interrogating reputations in the community. This study illustrates the ways in which former slaves used piety, reputation, gossip, education, kinship and witchcraft to negotiate the gap between emancipation and local notions of belonging.


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Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece
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ISBN: 9781107032347 9781139505772 9781107658899 1107032342 1107658896 1009063979 1009064290 1139505777 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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Slavery in ancient Greece was commonplace. In this book Sara Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves and focuses on their own perspectives, rather than those of their owners, giving a voice to a group that is often rendered silent by the historical record. By reading ancient sources 'against the grain,' and through careful deployment of comparative evidence from more recent slave-owning societies, she demonstrates that slaves engaged in a variety of strategies to deal with their conditions of enslavement, ranging from calculated accommodation to full-scale rebellion. Along the way, she establishes that slaves made a vital contribution to almost all aspects of Greek society. Above all, despite their often brutal treatment, they sometimes displayed great ingenuity in exploiting the tensions and contradictions within the system of slavery.


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A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
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ISBN: 9781107678842 9781107002876 1107002877 9780511976766 9781139082877 1139082876 9781139078313 1139078313 0511976763 1107678846 1107220629 1139063693 1283127296 9786613127297 1139076043 1139080601 1139070304 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"This book traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali"-- "The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating - and intensifying - civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory and uncivilized banditry. This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in one important place along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert: the Niger Bend in northern Mali. Using Arabic documents held in Timbuktu, as well as local colonial sources in French and oral interviews, Bruce S. Hall reconstructs an African intellectual history of race that long predated colonial conquest, and which has continued to orient inter-African relations ever since"--


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La justice belge, les bourreaux allemands et la Shoah
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ISBN: 9782800416885 2800416882 9782800417158 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bruxelles : impr. en Belgique. Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles,

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Les procès belges d'après-guerre menés contre les criminels de guerre allemands ont été perçus comme un échec. Le bilan de ces procès n'a pas répondu aux ambitions annoncées pourtant dès 1942 par le gouvernement en exil à Londres. L'idée qui s'est largement répandue est celle d'une justice qui n'aurait pas bien fait son travail et de magistrats qui se seraient montrés indifférents, voire insensibles, au sort infligé par l'occupant allemand aux Juifs de Belgique. La découverte d'archives judiciaires et l'analyse minutieuse du procès d'Otto Siegburg donnent une autre image de la justice belge. Ce chasseur de Juifs, qui a agi avec une brutalité et un acharnement inouïs, a été condamné pour crime contre l'humanité par le Conseil de guerre de Bruxelles dans un procès à rebondissements qui n'a pourtant pas fait jurisprudence. Par son analyse, Marie-Anne Weisers montre qu'il y a eu, au contraire, une volonté réelle de sanctionner les auteurs des crimes commis contre les Juifs. En remontant le cours de l'histoire du droit international jusqu'à la Première Guerre mondiale, l'auteure examine l'évolution des décisions prises en matière de répression des crimes de guerre, d'abord par les Alliés, puis par le gouvernement et le Parlement belge après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Ces décisions politiques et juridiques ont par la suite placé les magistrats belges devant des situations insolubles. Le livre dévoile comment les membres de l'auditorat général se sont battus pour contourner les immenses difficultés auxquelles ils ont été confrontés et comment ils ont tenté de poursuivre les criminels de guerre allemands à la hauteur de la gravité des crimes commis. Marie-Anne Weisers est docteure en histoire contemporaine et chercheuse au Centre Mondes Modernes et Contemporains de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Ses travaux portent sur l'histoire des procès contre les criminels de guerre allemands et des crimes commis contre les Juifs en Belgique. -- Quatrième de couverture


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A cultural history of genocide
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ISBN: 9781350034600 1350034606 9781350034679 1350034673 9781350034754 1350034754 9781350034839 1350034835 9781350034914 1350034916 9781350034938 1350034932 9781350034952 1350034959 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, NY Bloomsbury Academic

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"How has human response to genocide evolved over time? What effect has it had on our understanding of the cause and consequences of genocide? Spanning 2,800 years of human history, A Cultural History of Genocide offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of genocide from ancient times to the present day. With six highly illustrated volumes all written by leading scholars, this is the definitive reference work on the subject of genocide. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. - Ancient World (800 BCE - 800 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (800 - 1400); 3. - Early Modern World (1400 - 1789); 4. - Long Nineteenth Century (1789 - 1914); 5. - Era of Total War (1914 - 1945); 6. - Modern World (1945 - present). Themes (and chapter titles) are: Responses to Genocide; Motivations and Justifications for Genocide; Genocide Perpetrators; Genocide Victims; Genocide and Memory; Consequences of Genocide; Representations of Genocide; Causes of Genocide. The page extent for the pack is approximately 1,720 pp with c. 240 illustrations. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index. The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Genocide is part of The Cultural Histories series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com)"


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Commercial agriculture, the slave trade and slavery in Atlantic Africa.
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ISBN: 9781847010759 184701075X 9781782041788 1299998739 1782041788 Year: 2013 Publisher: Woodbridge James Currey

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This book presents a new perspective on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Western Africa itself, through its examination of the role of commercial agriculture. The idea of promoting the export of agricultural produce from Africa first became central to European thought in the context of the campaign to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the late eighteenth century. The eleven essays in this book explore this issue, re-appraising the links between slavery and colonialism and the rise of 'legitimate commerce' which marked the beginnings of economic 'modernity' in West Africa. The development of commercial agriculture in West Africa began with Danish attempts to establish plantations on the Gold Coast (Ghana) from 1788, followed by the British colony of Sierra Leone, after it was taken over by the Sierra Leone Company in 1791. The slave trade itself is also seen to have stimulated commercial agriculture in West Africa, to supply provisions for slave ships in the Middle Passage, and the experience of this trade in provisions may have facilitated the development of other export crops from the nineteenth century onwards. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists expected or hoped production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often tended to promote more extensive and intensive use of slave labour, so that the institution of slavery in Africa persisted into the early colonial period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Research Fellow in Colonial History, German Institute of Historical Research, London.


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Nuremberg 1947 : le poignard de l'assassin sous la toge du magistrat
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ISBN: 9782807211544 Year: 2023 Publisher: Limal Anthemis

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En 1947, les magistrats les plus actifs du Troisième Reich ont été condamnés, par le Tribunal de Nuremberg, en qualité de coauteurs des crimes nazis et du chef de crime contre l’humanité. Ce procès a montré à quel point les magistrats peuvent être corrompus au service d’une idéologie génocidaire portée par un pouvoir politique totalitaire. L’enseignement du jugement prononcé est remarquable d’actualité en ce qu’il écarte, en des termes qui se veulent à la fois radicaux et définitifs, l’argument positiviste de l’obéissance à la loi invoqué par la défense des accusés et en ce qu’il souligne la primauté du droit international dont il rappelle le lien qui l’unit au « sens moral de l’humanité ».

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