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Slaves Who Owned Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Bahia, Brazil [PDF]
, 2021 It was not uncommon in Brazil for slaves to own slaves. Slaves as masters of slaves existed in many slave societies and societies with slaves, but considering modern, chattel slavery in the Americas, Brazil seems to have been a special case where this ...
João José Reis
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Of Migrant Slaves and Underground Railroads: Movement, Containment, Freedom
American Behavioral Scientist, 2020 This article explores the figure of the “migrant slave” that appears to conjoin antithetical notions—migration, often associated with intentionality and movement, and slavery, commonly associated with coercion and confinement.
M. Stierl
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Wage-Earning Slaves COARTACION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CUBA Conclusion
, 2022 Wage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments, long recognized as a distinctive feature of certain areas under Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth ...
Varella, Claudia, Barcia, Manuel
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Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2018 This article discusses the rationale and the implications of the inclusion of slaves as victims of punishable hubris in the law about the graphē hubreōs.
Mirko Canevaro
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Les réseaux transsahariens de la traite de l’or et des esclaves au haut Moyen Âge : VIIIe-XIe siècle
L’Année du Maghreb, 2011 The trans-Saharan gold and slave trade developed between the eighth and eleventh centuries, under the leadership of Ibadi Berbers. Berbers set up a large “schismatic screen” by creating large commercial cities: such as Zawîla, Wârgla, Tâhert, Sijilmâsa ...
Roger Botte
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Domestic workers in Nigerian Christian families: A socio-rhetorical reading of Ephesians 6:5–9
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 The erosion of traditional work roles which had been male biased has led to the increase of women in the workplace. Although a welcomed development, it has an attendant problem – a vacuum in the homestead.
Olubiyi A. Adewale
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Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2017 The urban space of colonial Rio de Janeiro was to a large degree structured by a water supply system drawn from European models, including aqueducts, fountains, and a network of underground pipes.
Jorun Poettering
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Glimpses of an Untold History of the Gulf: Notable Slaves as an Example
Arabian Humanities, 2022 Although the history of slaves and slavery in the Gulf has been the focus of some research, certain aspects of this history have been lost in the dominant historical narratives. This paper focuses on an untold aspect of the local history: notable slaves.
Abdulrahman Alebrahim
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The manumission inscriptions from Lemnos: some news
Historika : Studi di Storia Greca e Romana, 2016 Il contributo vuole presentare una serie di frammenti rinvenuti sull'isola di Lemnos, in particolare nel santuario degli dei Cabiri sito a Chloi, e riconoscibili come iscrizioni di manomissione.
Francesca Rocca
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Movilizaciones subalternas y desafíos al orden colonial en Venezuela a finales del siglo xviii
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2022 In colonial Venezuela, subaltern mobilisations represented a constant challenge to the colonial administration. Indians, slaves, maroons and pardos had different strategies, ranging from participation in institutions to open rebellion.
Frédéric Spillemaeker
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