All Outputs (149)

White slave traffic in international law (2017)
Journal Article
Allain, J. (2017). White slave traffic in international law. Journal of Trafficking and Human Exploitation, 1(1), 1-40. https://doi.org/10.7590/24522775111

The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century (2017)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., Goodfriend, J., Van Zandt, C., Frijhoff, W., & Klooster, W. (2017). The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century. Journal of early American history, 7(1), 33-80. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00701004

© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2017. This book forum focuses on Wim Klooster's The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2016). In his book, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch bui... Read More about The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century.

Liminal identities of migrant groups: the Old Russian believers of Romania (2016)
Book Chapter
Clopot, C. E. (2016). Liminal identities of migrant groups: the Old Russian believers of Romania. In D. Downey, I. Kinane, & E. Parker (Eds.), Landscapes of liminality :between space and place (153-176). Rowman & Littlefield

Weaving the past in a fabric: Old Believers' traditional costume (2016)
Journal Article
Clopot, C. (2016). Weaving the past in a fabric: Old Believers' traditional costume. Folklore : Electronic Journal of Folklore, 66, 115-132. https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2016.66.clopot

© 2016, FB and Media Group of Estonian Literary Museum. All rights reserved. Costume plays an important part in expressing ethnic identity. This article develops an analysis of the Old Believers’ traditional costume in its current usage. To different... Read More about Weaving the past in a fabric: Old Believers' traditional costume.

Consuming goods, consuming people: reflections on the transatlantic slave trade (2016)
Book Chapter
Richardson, D. (2016). Consuming goods, consuming people: reflections on the transatlantic slave trade. In P. Misevich, & K. Mann (Eds.), The rise and demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world (31-63). University of Rochester Press and Boydell & Brewer Limited

Slavery and student debt (2016)
Other
Spicksley, J. (2016). Slavery and student debt. York

From Liverpool to Mount Vernon : Edward Rushton in transatlantic perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Oldfield, J. R. (2016). From Liverpool to Mount Vernon : Edward Rushton in transatlantic perspective. Questione Romantica, 7(1-2),

Among historians of British anti-slavery Edward Rushton is probably best known for his West-Indian Eclogues, which established his reputation as a hard-line anti-slavery activist. Perhaps less well known is his second abolitionist publication, his Ex... Read More about From Liverpool to Mount Vernon : Edward Rushton in transatlantic perspective.

The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (2016)
Book
Burnard, T., & Garrigus, J. (2016). The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293012

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by plan... Read More about The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica.

Forced marriage, slavery, and plural legal systems: An African example (2016)
Journal Article
Sarich, J., Olivier, M., & Bales, K. (2016). Forced marriage, slavery, and plural legal systems: An African example. Human rights quarterly, 38(2), 450-476. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2016.0030

Slavery, long abolished under international law, left a devastating imprint on Africa. However, enslavement of women through forced marriages remains a common phenomenon in many African states. These African states share the common feature of legal p... Read More about Forced marriage, slavery, and plural legal systems: An African example.

Property in persons: Prohibiting contemporary slavery as a human right (2016)
Book Chapter
Allain, J. (2016). Property in persons: Prohibiting contemporary slavery as a human right. In T. Xu, & J. Allain (Eds.), Property Rights and Human Rights in a Global Context. Hart Publishing

Single women and credit – what you didn’t know about interest (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Spicksley, J. (2015). Single women and credit – what you didn’t know about interest

Planters, Merchants and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 (2015)
Book
Burnard, T. (2015). Planters, Merchants and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820. University of Chicago Press

Sexe, esclavage et biopolitique: approche comparée (2015)
Book Chapter
Spicksley, J., & Richardson, D. (2015). Sexe, esclavage et biopolitique: approche comparée. In M. Spensky (Ed.), Le contrôle du corps des femmes dans les Empires coloniaux: Empires, genre et biopolitiques (81-106). Karthala

Contested enslavement: The Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800 (2015)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J. (2015). Contested enslavement: The Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800. Itinerario, 39(2), 247-275. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115315000467

The Portuguese were keen slave traders on the west central coast of Africa in the early modern period, but governors in Angola appear to have been increasingly unhappy about certain aspects of enslavement in relation to debt, and in particular that o... Read More about Contested enslavement: The Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800.

Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor (2015)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J. M. (2015). Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor. Gender and history, 27(2), 263-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12125

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In the transition from medieval notions of usury to modern notions of interest, single women appear to have enjoyed a special role.While probate documents confirm that an increasing number were engaged in interest-bear... Read More about Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor.

Afterword (2015)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2015). Afterword. In J. Metcalf, & C. Spaulding (Eds.), African American Culture and Society After Rodney King: Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism' (303-307). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565989

Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s. In A. McCarthy (Ed.), Ireland in the World Comparative, Transnational, and Personal Perspectives (15-33). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315749020

This chapter characterises the shifting relationship between Irish and Welsh nationalists during the mid-twentieth century and then outlines the cooperative history of several significant Irish and Welsh organisations. The precursor was the Irish Ant... Read More about Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s.

Slaves and Slavery, History of (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Slaves and Slavery, History of. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (54-58). (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.62025-1

Slavery has existed for millennia. It is both a status - an inferior person with no rights in a society - and a condition, a kind of humanity which was accorded fewer rights than other forms of humanity. A slave was the quintessential outsider. Most... Read More about Slaves and Slavery, History of.

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2015)
Book
Eltis, D., & Richardson, D. (2015). Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Yale University Press

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-... Read More about Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Colonies and colonization (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Colonies and colonization. In J. C. Miller, V. Brown, J. Cañizares-Esguerra, L. Dubois, & K. Ordahl Kupperman (Eds.), The Princeton companion to Atlantic history (107-108). Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852215