TY - BOOK ID - 103268088 TI - Slavery hinterland : transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680-1850 AU - Brahm, Felix AU - Rosenhaft, Eve PY - 2016 SN - 9781783271122 1783271124 1782047034 9781782047032 PB - Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell Press, DB - UniCat KW - Slave trade KW - Slavery KW - Slavery. KW - Slave trade. KW - History KW - Europe. KW - History. KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Enslaved persons KW - 17th century. KW - African American studies. KW - African slavery. KW - African studies. KW - European history. KW - colonialism. KW - continental European hinterland. KW - diaspora. KW - globalism. KW - racism. KW - seventeenth century. KW - transatlantic slavery. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103268088 AB - <I>Slavery Hinterland</I> explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economies that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. The volume unearths material entanglements of the Continental and Atlantic economies and also proposes a new agenda for the historical study of the relationship between business and morality. Contributors from the US,Britain and continental Europe examine the ways in which the slave economy touched on individual lives and economic developments in German-speaking Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. They reveal how these 'hinterlands' served as suppliers of investment, labour and trade goods for the slave trade and of materials for the plantation economies, and how involvement in trade networks contributed in turn to key economic developments in the 'hinterlands'. The chapters range in time from the first, short-lived attempt at establishing a German slave-trading operation in the 1680s to the involvement of textile manufacturers in transatlantic trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. A key theme of the volume is the question of conscience, or awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the moral challenge of slavery is found in individual actions and statements and also in post-abolition colonisation and missionary projects. FELIX BRAHM is Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in London.<BR><BR> EVE ROSENHAFT is Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool.CONTRIBUTORS: Felix Brahm, Peter Haenger, Catherine Hall, Daniel P. Hopkins, Craig Koslofsky, Sarah Lentz, Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Alexandra Robinson, Eve Rosenhaft, Anka Steffen, Klaus Weber, Roberto Zaugg ER -