Author: Gad Heuman File Type: pdf The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades of study in this crucial field. Offering an unusual, transnational history of slavery, the chapters have all been specially commissioned for the collection. The volume begins by delineating the global nature of the institution of slavery, examining slavery in different parts of the world and over time. Topics covered here include slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean World, as well as the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In Part Two, the chapters explore different themes that define slavery such as slave culture, the slave economy, slave resistance and the planter class, as well as areas of life affected by slavery, such as family and work. The final part goes on to study changes and continuities over time, looking at areas such as abolition, the aftermath of emancipation and commemoration. The volume concludes with a chapter on modern slavery.Including essays on all the key topics and issues, this important collection from a leading international group of scholars presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field. It will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of slavery.ReviewThe editors have gathered an outstanding collection of scholars who contribute brief, informative, up-to-date, and sometimes powerful essays on slavery, predominantly plantation slavery in the Americas. The volume kicks off with single essays about Greek and Roman slavery, slavery in Africa, and then slavery in the Indian Ocean world, the latter perhaps being the subject most unknown of any covered here. From there, the volume moves to the slave trade in the New World and the origins of slavery in the Americas. Part 2, The Character of Slavery, features a particularly fine essay by Jennifer Morgan on gender and family life. Indeed, an emphasis on how gender shaped slavery itself is a particularly strong point of the volume. Part 3 includes four essays on slavery and freedom through the age of revolution and abolition, and concludes with a piece on modern slavery. The net result is as fine a scholarly introduction and resource volume as currently exists, indispensable for university libraries. Summing Up Essential. All levelslibraries.- P. Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado SpringsAbout the AuthorGad Heuman is Professor of History and has served as Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Between Black and White (1981), The Killing Time (1994) and The Caribbean (2006). He is the editor of the journal, Slavery & Abolition.Trevor Burnard is Professor of American History at the University of Warwick. He specialises in the history of plantation societies and slavery in the Americas and is the author of Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (2004).

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Author: Vincent L. Wimbush File Type: pdf The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, first published in England in 1789, was one of the earliest and remains to this day one of the best-known English language slave narratives. Characterizing Olaudah Equianos eighteenth-century narrative of his life as a type of scriptural story that connects the Bible with identity formation, Vincent L. Wimbushs White Mens Magic probes not only how the Bible and its reading played a crucial role in the first colonial contacts between black and white persons in the North Atlantic but also the process and meaning of what he terms scripturalization. By this term, Wimbush means a social-psychological-political discursive structure or semiosphere that creates a reality and organizes a society in terms of relations and communications. This scripturalization, achieved by the British to establish a colonial and racialized society in and through the promotion of literacy and the Bible as a fetishized center-object, was also performed by an abject outsider or stranger like Equiano through his reading of the Bible as well as his own writing with the goal of imagining and promoting a more inclusive society. It is for this reason that Wimbush calls Equianos narrative a scriptural story, and he argues that this is why the talking book trope appears repeatedly in writings of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century black Atlantic writers. He identifies three different types of scripturalization (1) scripturalization as social-cultural matrix and comparative magic (2) scripturalization in the service of nationalization and for the purpose of naturalization and (3) scripturalization in negotiation and for resistance. Because it is based on the particularities of Equianos narrative, Wimbushs theoretical work is not only grounded but inductive. Wimbush shows that scripturalization is bigger than either the historical or the literary Equiano. Scripturalization was not invented by Equiano, he says, but it is not quite the same after Equiano.

Author: DHS File Type: pdf (U) Prepared by the Strategic Analysis Group and the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, HomelandEnvironment Threat Analysis Division.(UFOUO) Homeland Security Reference Aidsprepared by the DHSOffice ofIntelligence and Analysis (I&A)provide baseline information on a variety ofhomeland security issues. This product is one in a series of reference aids designed toprovide operational and intelligence advice and assistance to other elements of DHS,as well as state, local, and regional fusions centers. DHSI&A intends this backgroundinformation to assist federal, state, local, and tribal homeland security and lawenforcement officials in conducting analytic activities. This product providesdefinitions for key terms and phrases that often appear in DHS analysis that addressesthe nature and scope of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to theUnited States. Definitions were derived from a variety of open source materials andunclassified information, then further developed during facilitated workshops withDHS intelligence analysts knowledgeable about domestic, non-Islamic extremism inthe United States.Pamphlet, 11pp.UnclassifiedFor Official Use Only