Suchergebnisse

How did Islamic law change the status of slave mothers and their children? While granting certain protections, such as freedom upon the owner's death and ...

Gendered Dependence: Going beyond the usual concepts of dependency relationships located within a post-colonial state, this new research project examines in ...

How did enslaved individuals in the Americas navigate the path to freedom? Focusing on Trujillo, Peru, this lecture contends that legal manumission alone did ...

Beyond chattel slavery, who really built the global plantation complex? This lecture takes a global, longue durée approach, challenging the assumption that ...

How did labor relations evolve in colonial Hispanic America, and what factors contributed to the increased coercion in the seventeenth century? Hypothesizing ...

Discussing the slavery and indigenous servitude in the southern Andes, the lecture will focus on three main points. The first is the conceptual distinction ...

How does “postcolonial capitalism” manifest today? The talk will explore this by examining global capitalism's development and its political implications. Key ...

Old Goa developed as one of the major port cities of the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century, as the Portuguese attempted to control maritime trade ...

The lecture traces public international law’s response to the international slave trade and modern slavery from the early seventeenth century to the present ...

This talk derives from Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy’s award-winning book, Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean (University of Illinois ...