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Circus owners --- Propriétaires de cirque --- Biography --- Biographie --- Barnum, P. T.
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Une étude historique sur une révolte d'esclaves dans l'île Bourbon, l'actuelle Réunion, alors sous domination anglaise. L'auteur identifie les propriétaires et les meneurs de l'insurrection, détaille les conditions de vie imposée par l'esclavagisme et les possibilités d'organiser la rébellion à Saint-Leu, avant de décrire les modalités du soulèvement de 1811 et la dureté de sa répression. ©Electre 2015
Slave rebellions --- Slaveholders --- Révoltes d'esclaves --- Propriétaires d'esclaves --- History --- Histoire
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Slavery --- Enslaved persons --- Slaveholders --- Esclavage --- Esclaves --- Propriétaires d'esclaves --- History --- History. --- History. --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Histoire
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A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing population of black Africans. By the end of the fifteenth century, black Africans comprised as much as 40 percent of the slave population of Valencia.Whereas previous historians of medieval slavery have focused their efforts on defining the legal status of slaves, documenting the vagaries of the Mediterranean slave trade, or examining slavery within the context of Muslim-Christian relations, Debra Blumenthal explores the social and human dimensions of slavery in this religiously and ethnically pluralistic society. Enemies and Familiars traces the varied experiences of Muslim, Eastern, and black African slaves from capture to freedom. After describing how men, women, and children were enslaved and brought to the Valencian marketplace, this book examines the substance of slaves' daily lives: how they were sold and who bought them; the positions ascribed to them within the household hierarchy; the sorts of labor they performed; and the ways in which some reclaimed their freedom. Scrutinizing a wide array of archival sources (including wills, contracts, as well as hundreds of civil and criminal court cases), Blumenthal investigates what it meant to be a slave and what it meant to be a master at a critical moment of transition.Arguing that the dynamics of the master-slave relationship both reflected and determined contemporary opinions regarding religious, ethnic, and gender differences, Blumenthal's close study of the day-to-day interactions between masters and their slaves not only reveals that slavery played a central role in identity formation in late medieval Iberia but also offers clues to the development of "racialized" slavery in the early modern Atlantic world.
Slavery --- Enslaved persons --- Slaveholders --- Master and servant --- History --- Esclavage --- Esclaves --- Propriétaires d'esclaves --- History. --- Histoire
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The 1767 decision to divide Prince Edward Island among elite British grantees shaped Island history for more than a century. Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island examines this history through the lives of four women who, due to the vagaries of family formation and inheritance, became Island landlords. As absentee owners of large estates, each of the four women faced challenges from those who wanted land redistributed in freehold lots to actual settlers. Their individual management strategies were determined in part by class standing and marital status, as well as individual eccentricities and prejudices. Drawing on family and official papers, Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum provide engaging portraits of these women - orphaned heiress, prudent wife and property manager, countess estranged from her husband, independent spinster - as they negotiated relations of power and privilege in a domain dominated by men. Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island is a compelling narrative that provides a unique perspective on landed society in England in the age of industrialization and reform, making an important contribution to trans-Atlantic, British social, legal, and women's histories.
Women landowners --- Absentee landlordism --- Land tenure --- Gentry --- Landlord and tenant --- Femmes propriétaires fonciers --- Absentéisme (Économie rurale) --- Propriété foncière --- Propriétaires et locataires --- History --- Histoire --- Femmes proprietaires fonciers --- Absenteisme (Economie rurale) --- Propriete fonciere --- Proprietaires et locataires
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Landowners --- Real property --- Propriétaires fonciers --- Biens réels --- Bebenhausen (Germany) --- Bebenhausen (Allemagne) --- Genealogy --- History --- Sources --- Généalogies --- Histoire
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French-Canadians --- Slaveholders --- Enslaved persons --- Canadiens français --- Propriétaires d'esclaves --- Esclaves --- Biography --- Dictionaries --- Dictionaries. --- Biographie --- Dictionnaires
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Land tenure --- Landowners --- Kinship --- Rural families --- Propriété foncière --- Propriétaires fonciers --- Parenté --- Familles rurales --- History --- Histoire
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Population --- Land tenure --- Landowners --- Propriété foncière --- Propriétaires fonciers --- History --- Histoire --- Belgium --- Belgique --- Rural conditions --- Conditions rurales
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"Le 27 avril 1848, alors que la France abolit l'esclavage pour la seconde fois, le gouvernement accorde dans le même temps une indemnité aux colons « dépossédés » de leurs esclaves. Ils reçoivent, par la loi du 30 avril 1849 et son décret d'application du 24 novembre 1849, 126 millions de francs, en versement direct et en rentes. La France traverse alors une crise économique et cette indemnité représente 7 % des dépenses publiques. Les législateurs prennent pourtant la décision de la verser : c'est la condition que les anciens propriétaires d'esclaves posent à l'Émancipation générale. Tout en abolissant l'esclavage, la France ne veut ni perdre ses possessions ni supprimer l'ordre colonial. Cet ouvrage reproduit les discussions qui ont conduit à l'élaboration de cette loi. S'y trouvent les plaidoyers des planteurs, les positions de personnalités telles que Cyrille Bissette ou Victor Schœlcher, les échanges au sein de la commission instituée pour en préparer le règlement et les délibérations parlementaires qui ont suivi. Ces textes permettent de saisir les enjeux de cette indemnisation dont les conséquences sont dénoncées aujourd'hui."
Indemnity --- Esclavage --- Slaves --- Année 1848 --- History --- Abolition --- Indemnisation des propriétaires --- Emancipation --- Année 1848 --- Compensation (Law) --- Damages --- Law and legislation --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery