The End of Slavery in Africa and the Americas: A Comparative ApproachUlrike Schmieder, Katja Füllberg-Stolberg, Michael Zeuske For centuries social and economic relations within the Atlantic space were dominated by slavery and the transatlantic slave trade from Africa to the Americas. By the slowly and arduously achieved end of this trade, slave labour in the Americas was replaced in many cases by other forms of coerced labour of African Caribbean people or Indian, Chinese, African or European immigrants. This book focuses on the transformation of societies after the slave trade and slavery in a comparative intercontinental perspective. It combines micro- and macro-historical approaches and looks at the agency of slaves, missionaries, abolitionists, state officials, seamen and soldiers. |
Contents
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the Cape and the TransAtlantic Slave | 27 |
the Atlantic the Americas and Cuba | 51 |
The Moravian Mission and the Emancipation of Slaves in the Caribbean | 81 |
Black Politics in Free Jamaica 18381865 | 103 |
Slavery Abolition and PostEmancipation in the French and Spanish | 117 |
The End of Slavery the Role of the Freedmens Bureau and | 141 |
Trajectories of Change | 165 |
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