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The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England : From Bondage to Freedom
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ISBN: 9781783271283 Year: 2016 Publisher: Woodbridge The Boydell Press

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Serfdom --- Land tenure --- History


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The normative basis of forest utilization and conversion : a multi-site case study in the Lore Lindu National Park region, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
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ISBN: 3737600511 9783737600514 9783737600507 3737600503 Year: 2016 Publisher: Kassel, [Germany] : Kassel University Press,

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Slaveholding : weighed in the balance of truth
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ISBN: 177667233X 9781776672332 Year: 2016 Publisher: [Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press,

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Captives : how stolen people changed the world
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ISBN: 9780803295766 0803295766 9780803295773 0803295774 9780803295780 0803295782 9780803293991 0803293992 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press,

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"In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact that captives of warfare and raiding have had on small-scale societies through time. Cameron provides a new point of orientation for archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and other scholars by illuminating the impact that captive-taking and enslavement have had on cultural change, with important implications for understanding the past. Focusing primarily on indigenous societies in the Americas while extending the comparative reach to include Europe, Africa, and Island Southeast Asia, Cameron draws on ethnographic, ethnohistoric, historic, and archaeological data to examine the roles that captives played in small-scale societies. In such societies, captives represented an almost universal social category consisting predominantly of women and children and constituting 10 to 50 percent of the population in a given society. Cameron demonstrates how captives brought with them new technologies, design styles, foodways, religious practices, and more, all of which changed the captor culture. This book provides a framework that will enable archaeologists to understand the scale and nature of cultural transmission by captivesand it will also interest anthropologists, historians, and other scholars who study captive-taking and slavery. Cameron's exploration of the peculiar amnesia that surrounds memories of captive-taking and enslavement around the world also establishes a connection with unmistakable contemporary relevance"-- "Using a comparative approach, a detailed study of captive-taking in small-scale societies and exploration of the profound impacts that captives had on the societies they joined. Opens new avenues of research about captives as significant sources of culture change"--


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Institutional slavery : slaveholding churches, schools, colleges, and businesses in Virginia, 1680-1860
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ISBN: 1316496449 1316496775 1316497100 1316497437 1316498751 1316498425 1316225488 1107105277 1107512565 1316494462 9781316225486 9781316498750 9781316497432 9781316498422 9781316497104 9781107512566 9781316496442 9781316496770 9781107105270 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The traditional image of slavery begins with a master and a slave. However, not all slaves had traditional masters; some were owned instead by institutions, such as church congregations, schools, colleges, and businesses. This practice was pervasive in early Virginia; its educational, religious, and philanthropic institutions were literally built on the backs of slaves. Virginia's first industrial economy was also developed with the skilled labor of African American slaves. This book focuses on institutional slavery in Virginia as it was practiced by the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, free schools, and four universities: the College of William and Mary, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Virginia, and Hollins College. It also examines the use of slave labor by businesses and the Commonwealth of Virginia in industrial endeavors. This is not only an account of how institutions used slavery to further their missions, but also of the slaves who belonged to institutions.


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Slavery's metropolis : unfree labor in New Orleans during the age of revolutions
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ISBN: 1316722635 1316723232 1316723836 1316460053 1316724433 1316726231 1107133718 1107591163 1316719030 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the early nineteenth century, slaves made up one-third of the urban population. In contrast to our typical understanding of rural, localized, isolated bondage in the emergent Deep South, daily experiences of slavery in New Orleans were global, interconnected, and transient. Slavery's Metropolis uses slave circulations through New Orleans between 1791 and 1825 to map the social and cultural history of enslaved men and women and the rapidly shifting city, nation, and world in which they lived. Investigating emigration from the Caribbean to Louisiana during the Haitian Revolution, commodity flows across urban-rural divides, multiracial amusement places, the local jail, and freedom-seeking migrations to Trinidad following the War of 1812, it remaps the history of slavery in modern urban society.


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Intimate Bonds : Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
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ISBN: 0812293061 0812248406 Year: 2016 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, all household members in the French Atlantic world —regardless of their status, gender, or race—negotiated increasingly stratified legal understandings of race and gender. Through her focus on household relationships, Jennifer L. Palmer reveals how intimacy not only led to the seemingly immutable hierarchies of the plantation system but also caused these hierarchies to collapse even before the age of Atlantic revolutions. Placing families at the center of the French Atlantic world, Palmer uses the concept of intimacy to illustrate how race, gender, and the law intersected to form a new worldview. Through analysis of personal, mercantile, and legal relationships, Intimate Bonds demonstrates that even in an era of intensifying racial stratification, slave owners and slaves, whites and people of color, men and women all adapted creatively to growing barriers, thus challenging the emerging paradigm of the nuclear family. This engagingly written history reveals that personal choices and family strategies shaped larger cultural and legal shifts in the meanings of race, slavery, family, patriarchy, and colonialism itself.


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Escravidão e subjetividades : no Atlântico luso-brasileiro e francês (Séculos xvii-xx)
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ISBN: 2821855834 2821855877 9782821855878 Year: 2016 Publisher: OpenEdition Press

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Para além do Atlântico negro de Paul Gilroy, o Atlântico da escravidão, noção abrangente cujas fronteiras vão ao coração dos continentes, ainda que constantemente retrabalhado por subdivisões linguísticas (o Atlântico lusófono, francófono, anglófono...) ou hemisféricas (Atlântico Sul, Norte). Este livro, no entanto, desafia essas fronteiras: surge como uma história cruzada entre o Atlântico Sul e o Atlântico Norte, entre um espaço lusófono e um outro, francófono; entre datas da abolição da escravatura separadas no tempo. Busca definir os vínculos, os efeitos de convergência, bem como as diferenças entre esses mundos. O livro reúne 12 historiadores para pensar as ligações entre escravidão, pós-escravidão, cidadania e subjetividade, entre os séculos XVII e XX, no Atlânticoda Escravidão.


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Die slaven im Mittelalter
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ISBN: 9783110488142 3110488140 3110490153 3110488280 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter,

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Die „Slaven" begegnen in mittelalterlichen Quellen wie in der modernen Mediävistik in vielfältiger Weise. Was aber meinten die mittelalterlichen Zeitgenossen, wenn Sie von „Slaven" oder „Slavenland" schrieben und was kann die Mediävistik heute mit diesen Begriffen sinnvoll bezeichnen? In welchem Verhältnis stehen die im 6. Jahrhundert einsetzenden, von der Wissenschaft seit dem 18. Jahrhundert verfeinerten Konstruktionen „slavischer" Identitäten zu den mittelalterlichen Wirklichkeiten? Die Studie fragt danach, ob bzw. inwieweit der in byzantinischen, arabischen und lateinischen Quellen begegnende Begriff „Slaven" tatsächlich auf eine reale Einheit, ein gemeinschaftliches Identitätsbewusstsein verwies oder nicht auch schon im Mittelalter – wie im 18.-20. Jahrhundert – vor allem ein Instrument bestimmter politisch-ideologischer Programme war. Medieval sources and modern medieval scholars speak of "Slavs" in many ways. Just what did medieval contemporaries mean when they wrote about "Slavs" or the "Land of the Slavs" and how can we meaningfully define these terms today? This essay questions whether this term used in diverse sources actually referred to any real entity or, if instead, it already served during the Middle Ages as an instrument for political and ideological agendas.


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Dignity : a journal on sexual exploitation and violence.
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ISSN: 24724181 Year: 2016 Publisher: Kingston, RI : Department of Women's Studies, University of Rhode Island,

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"'Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence' is an open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing original scholarly articles on topics related to sexual exploitation, violence, and slavery. The journal is a forum for research, discussion, and analysis on how these forms of violence harm the dignity and health of individuals, the integrity and security of communities, and the strength and character of nations."

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