The European Experience in Slavery, 1650-1850
This volume documents the practice of bringing enslaved people to early modern Europe not only as a side effect of overseas colonial regimes but as a pan-European experience that even developed its own dynamics on the continent. Drawing on examples from France, Scotland, the Netherlands, Denmark, an...
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De Gruyter Oldenbourg
2024
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- 1 The European Experience in Slavery 1650-1850: Parallels and Entanglements
- 2 Barriers to Accessing France's Sol Libre in Early Modern France
- 3 Escaping Enslavement in Eighteenth- Century Scotland
- 4 Variations of African Life in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands: Between a Boy Servant at the Court of Orange-Nassau and a Lord of the Manor in the Province of Groningen
- 5 Race, Slavery, and the Market: African Lives in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen
- 6 Free Through Membership in the Imperial Trumpeters' Guild? On the Legal and Social Position of Black Court Trumpeters in the Holy Roman Empire
- 7 Iconography and the Law: Slaves at the Dresden Court
- 8 On Intimate Terms
- An Afterword