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Shareholders in the Dutch Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Trade

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2022
This article provides the first quantitative evidence of the indirect benefits of shareholders of the Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie (MCC), a Dutch Atlantic trading company and the biggest slave trader in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic.
Koen van der Blij
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“Why may not our country be enriched by that lucrative traffic?”: The slave trade and the failed politics of federal proscription in the early American Republic (1787-1808)

open access: yesXVII-XVIII, 2020
This article proposes to explore the commercial dimensions of the slave trade suppression in the United States during the early national period. It draws attention to recent scholarship on the Atlantic slave trade and the politics of slavery in the early
Andy Cabot
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Radiometric Constraints on the Timing, Tempo, and Effects of Large Igneous Province Emplacement

open access: yesGeophysical Monograph Series, Page 27-82., 2021

Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact

An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jennifer Kasbohm   +2 more
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Duas abordagens sobre o escravismo e o comércio de escravos em Angola

open access: yesAfro-Ásia, 2019
Resenha de: CANDIDO, Mariana P. An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 366p. SILVA, Daniel B. Domingues da.
Gustavo Acioli
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Slavery and Kant’s Doctrine of Right

open access: yesJournal of Modern Philosophy
In the 1780s through the end of 1790s, Kant made various references to slavery (in its different forms) and the transatlantic slave trade in the context of his political philosophy or philosophy of right.
Huaping Lu-Adler
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Dear Ancestors

open access: yesGenealogy, 2021
This poem explores intergenerational wounding and healing from the perspective of a descendant of the African diaspora and of people affected by the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Zuleka Henderson
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Teaching slavery in the Atlantic world: the Black codes and the slave narratives

open access: yesDidattica della storia, 2020
In a globalized world in which cultural contaminations represent a direct challenge for education, it is essential to provide teaching tools that facilitate students' approach to global history issues.
Giuseppe Patisso, Fausto Ermete Carbone
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock   +42 more
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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