A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Encounters
A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Encounters
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At the inception of the Age of Encounters (1450-1700), slavery was normative throughout much of the globe. Over several centuries, the interpenetration of previously discrete networks of human traffickers, the regions of the world became more closely intertwined, with enslaved men, women, and children enduring forced migrations not only across oceans, but, in some cases, now into new hemispheres. The authors in this volume explore how the increasingly transoceanic character of slave trading during this period fundamentally reshaped what had previously been more culturally specific forms of slavery and human trafficking.
Over the course of the 15th and 16th centuries, the worlds of Iberian and Ottoman corsairs, Caucasus-based wakò pirates, and slavers in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas converged. Though slavery and human trafficking were not introduced by Europeans to many of these spaces, European intervention generally proved transformative, affecting the volume, dynamics, and character of the slave trading and slaveholding in these regions. While an important legacy of the Age of Encounters was the forging of interdependencies between slave systems and the development of a larger, more globalized slave trade, the emergent “Atlantic” model of slavery was not universal. The contributors underline divergences between these various slaving systems as well as parallels and intersections.
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General Editor's Preface
Introduction R.A. Kashanipour (University of Arizona, USA)
1. Definitions and Ideologies of Slavery and Trafficking Linford D. Fisher (Brown University, USA)
2. Slavery, Trafficking, and the Law Benjamin N. Lawrance (University of Arizona, USA) and Joseph C. Miller (University of Virginia, USA)
3. Political Cultures Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva (University of Rochester, USA)
4. Coercive Laboring Economies Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University, USA), Walter H. Hawthorne (Michigan State University, USA) and Benjamin N. Lawrance (University of Arizona, USA)
5. Social Organization, Culture, Identity, and Ritual Rachel Sarah O'Toole (University of California, Irvine, USA)
6. Gender, Enslavement, and Trafficking Arlette Gautier (University of Western Brittany, France)
7. Family, Age, and Bondage Gülay Yilmaz (Akdeniz University, Turkey)
8. Anti-Slavery, Anti-Trafficking, Resistance, and Abolition Outcomes Benjamin N. Lawrance (University of Arizona, USA)
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Product details
| Published | Nov 12 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 248 |
| ISBN | 9781350540545 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 50 bw illus |
| Series | The Cultural Histories Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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