UN speech: The transatlantic slave trade and slavery: The psychic inheritance / Rex Nettleford. Work, power and society in pharaonic Egypt / Alain Anselin -- Slavery and the slave trade within and across the Red Sea region: A preliminary conceptual framework / Abdi M. Kusow -- Slavery, ecology and commerce: A study of slave estates and trans-Saharan trade in Katsina Emirate c. 1804-1903 / Abubakar Babajo Sani -- Slavery and the slave trade in east Africa / Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi -- The trans-American and Caribbean slave trade: A broad field to explore / Jesus Guanche -- From freedom to survival to dreaming freedom: The sage of afro-descendents in Latin America and the Caribbean / Quince Duncan -- UN speech: The Haitian revolution and the rights secured by the descendents of the victims of the slave trade, slavery and the colonial system in the Caribbean-Americas / Oruno D. Lara -- Cultural resistance to slavery: The creation of Maroon culture / Doudou Diene -- In slavery and freedom: Domestic service in the Caribbean / Michele A. Johnson -- Suriname Maroons: A history of intrusions into their territories / Alex Van Stipriaan -- Africans and afro-descendents in Mexico and Central America: Overview and challenges for studies of their past and present / Maria Elisa Velazquez -- 'The African diaspora in frontier lands': The case of Spanish Central America during the colonial period / Rina Caceres -- Afro-descendents and the founding story of the nation: monuments and commemorative dates / Ana Frega -- Slavery in Mauritius: Between history and memory / Vijaya Teelock and Jayshree Mundur-Medhi -- African roots of south Asians / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- Abolishing slavery: A history and a process as yet incomplete / Nelly Schmidt -- African contributions to science, technology and development / Paul E. Lovejoy -- The memory of slavery and the representation of self in the construction of the social identity of the Agudas in Benin / Milton Guran -- Combating 'modern slavery' in rhetoric and practice / Joel Quirk -- The international slavery museum: A gateway to memory, identity and action / RIchard Benjamin -- Issues in the movement for reparatory justice for the crimes of African chattel enslavement / Hilary McDonald Beckles -- UN speech: The transatlantic slave trade and slavery: The psychic inheritance / Rex Nettleford.
Summary:
"This publication reflects the diversity of research on the slave trade, slavery and their legacies that has been undertaken over the last few decades in different parts of the world. It contributes to revealing to the world a human history that has been hidden by shame and guilt and by suppressed memories that nonetheless continue to affect social, cultural and political relationships in our contemporary societies. The issues addressed are of extreme importance in better understanding our modern world and many of our collective and individual behaviours. They offer readers a corpus of research-based knowledge and a pluralist perspective on the different systems of enslavement, the resistance and resilience of enslaved people, and the various contributions of the enslaved to the construction of societies. This publication is intended to be a substantial contribution to the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) and to the global debate on the issues of cultural pluralism, racism and discrimination, the perpetration of historical injustices, and reparations and reconciliation"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.