Paul Lane and Kevin C. MacDonald (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197264782
- eISBN:
- 9780191754012
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264782.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
The role and consequences of slavery in the history of Africa have been brought to the fore recently in historical, anthropological, and archaeological research. Public remembrances — such as ...
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The role and consequences of slavery in the history of Africa have been brought to the fore recently in historical, anthropological, and archaeological research. Public remembrances — such as Abolition 2007 in Great Britain, which marked the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and which this book also commemorates — have also stimulated considerable interest. There is a growing realisation that enslavement, whether as part of a sliding scale of ‘rights in persons’ or due to acts of violence, has a history on the African continent that extends back in time long before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The nature of such enslavement is obscured by the lack of resolution in historical sources before the middle of the second millennium ad. Ground-breaking archaeological research is now building models for approaching slave labour systems via collaboration with historians and the critical scrutiny of historical data. Generally, such new research focuses at the landscape scale; rather than attempting to find physical evidence of slavery per se, it assesses the settlement systems of slavery-based economies, and the depopulation and abandonment that followed from wars of enslavement. This book offers chapters on recent archaeological studies of slavery, slave resistance and its contemporary commemoration, alongside archaeological assessments of the economic, environmental, and political consequences of slave trading in a variety of historical and geographical settings.Less
The role and consequences of slavery in the history of Africa have been brought to the fore recently in historical, anthropological, and archaeological research. Public remembrances — such as Abolition 2007 in Great Britain, which marked the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and which this book also commemorates — have also stimulated considerable interest. There is a growing realisation that enslavement, whether as part of a sliding scale of ‘rights in persons’ or due to acts of violence, has a history on the African continent that extends back in time long before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The nature of such enslavement is obscured by the lack of resolution in historical sources before the middle of the second millennium ad. Ground-breaking archaeological research is now building models for approaching slave labour systems via collaboration with historians and the critical scrutiny of historical data. Generally, such new research focuses at the landscape scale; rather than attempting to find physical evidence of slavery per se, it assesses the settlement systems of slavery-based economies, and the depopulation and abandonment that followed from wars of enslavement. This book offers chapters on recent archaeological studies of slavery, slave resistance and its contemporary commemoration, alongside archaeological assessments of the economic, environmental, and political consequences of slave trading in a variety of historical and geographical settings.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804753692
- eISBN:
- 9780804768061
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804753692.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the role of slavery and the Conservative Party in the history of the Brazilian monarchy during the period from 1831 to ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the role of slavery and the Conservative Party in the history of the Brazilian monarchy during the period from 1831 to 1871. This volume provides a political analysis of the foundational history of Brazil and proposes revisions to some of consecrated assumptions about the nature of the Party of Order and its successor, the Conservative Party. It investigates how the slave-holding sugar and coffee planter and merchant interests created a centralized authoritarian state and argues that the political elite fraction that emerged as dominant in the leadership of the Party of Order adapted a reactionary ideology in response to the continued centrality and expansion of a slavery-based export economy and the destabilizing events of the Regency.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the role of slavery and the Conservative Party in the history of the Brazilian monarchy during the period from 1831 to 1871. This volume provides a political analysis of the foundational history of Brazil and proposes revisions to some of consecrated assumptions about the nature of the Party of Order and its successor, the Conservative Party. It investigates how the slave-holding sugar and coffee planter and merchant interests created a centralized authoritarian state and argues that the political elite fraction that emerged as dominant in the leadership of the Party of Order adapted a reactionary ideology in response to the continued centrality and expansion of a slavery-based export economy and the destabilizing events of the Regency.
