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Historical Origins of Firm Ownership Structure: The Persistent Effects of the African Slave Trade
, 2020This paper uses evidence from the historical African slave trade to extend prior theory linking modern firm ownership structure to institutions and social capital.
L. Pierce, Jason A. Snyder
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Female Genital Cutting and the Slave Trade
, 2020We investigate the historical origins of female genital cutting (FGC), a harmful practice widespread across Africa. We test the hypothesis --substantiated by historical sources-- that FGC was connected to the Red Sea slave trade route, where women were ...
L. Corno +2 more
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2021
An account of the involvement of Highland Scots in the trading of Africans into and within the colonies of the Caribbean and the Americas. The chapter describes the slave trade in its full and proper sense – beginning with kidnap, continuing in the conversion of human beings into commodities, and extending to all parts of the plantation economies ...
Manuel Zapata Olivella, Jonathan Tittler
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An account of the involvement of Highland Scots in the trading of Africans into and within the colonies of the Caribbean and the Americas. The chapter describes the slave trade in its full and proper sense – beginning with kidnap, continuing in the conversion of human beings into commodities, and extending to all parts of the plantation economies ...
Manuel Zapata Olivella, Jonathan Tittler
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Edmund Burke on slavery and the slave trade
Slavery & Abolition, 2019This article reconstructs Edmund Burke’s thoughts on slavery from his Account of the European Settlements in America to his parliamentary speeches in the late 1700s.
Gregory M. Collins
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International Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade
Journal of Black Studies, 2018This article compares German Holocaust reparations with reparations regarding slavery and the slave trade in the United States and beyond. I review many historical reparations measures (proposed and realized) making them comparable in 2016 U.S.
Thomas Craemer
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2023
Abstract For centuries, European seafaring nations traded enslaved people across the Atlantic: Over ten million human beings were violently torn from their homes and surroundings in one part of the world, Africa, transported across the Atlantic, and sold in a second region of the world, the Americas—in a business operated by people from ...
Lisbeth Zimmermann +4 more
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Abstract For centuries, European seafaring nations traded enslaved people across the Atlantic: Over ten million human beings were violently torn from their homes and surroundings in one part of the world, Africa, transported across the Atlantic, and sold in a second region of the world, the Americas—in a business operated by people from ...
Lisbeth Zimmermann +4 more
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The enslaved ontology: Peoples of the historic slave trade
Journal of Web Semantics, 2020C. Shimizu +11 more
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1901
Abstract The recruitment of human beings for coercive use, whether productive or reproductive, has varied over the course of human history. It occurred through violent confrontation, including capture in warfare or the kidnap- ping of outsiders; through a natural process (birth); or through judicial procedures within a community, as a ...
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Abstract The recruitment of human beings for coercive use, whether productive or reproductive, has varied over the course of human history. It occurred through violent confrontation, including capture in warfare or the kidnap- ping of outsiders; through a natural process (birth); or through judicial procedures within a community, as a ...
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