Writing the history of global slavery / Trevor Burnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnard, Trevor, 1960- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice, 2634-8616.

Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice, 2634-8616

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Historiography.

Slavery.

Slavery--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (64 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum American slavery being normative should be replaced a global slavery that is less American and more global. It argues that we can understand the global history of slavery if we connect it more closely to another important world institution - empires in ways that historicise the study of history as an institution with a history that changes over time and space. Moreover, we can learn from scholars of modern slavery and use more than we do the enormous proliferation of usable sources about the lives, experiences and thoughts of the enslaved, from ancient to modern times, to make these voices of the enslaved crucial drivers of how we conceptualise and describe the varied kinds of global slavery in world history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Writing the History of Global Slavery

Contents

Introduction: What Is Slavery?

1 Models of Slavery

Slavery Today

The History of Writing about Slavery

Existing Models

Conclusion

2 New Ways of Writing the History of Slavery

Introduction

Atlantic Slavery as a Model

Empire and Slavery

Imperial Examples

Slavery in the Ottoman Expire

Race and Empire

3 Lived Experience

Survivor Tales

Hearing the Voices of the Enslaved

Can the Subaltern Speak?

The Archive of Slavery

Modern Slavery and the Survivor Voice

Learning from the Voices of the Enslaved

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Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Nov 2023).

ISBN:

9781009406246

1009406248

9781009406260

1009406264

9781009406284

1009406280

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access