Beyond exceptionalism : traces of slavery and the slave trade in early modern Germany, 1650-1850

Beyond exceptionalism traces of slavery and the slave trade in early modern Germany, 1650-1850

While the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in historiography. This edited volume focuses on practices of enslavement taking place within Germa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mallinckrodt, Rebekka v. (Rebekka von), 1971-, editor (editor), Köstlbauer, Josef, 1976- editor, Lentz, Sarah, 1974- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2021.
Materias:
Slave trade > Early works to 1800.
Slave trade.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beyond exceptionalism
  • traces of slavery and the slave trade in early modern Germany, 1650-1850 / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Sarah Lentz, and Josef Köstlbauer
  • Germany and the early modern Atlantic world : economic involvement and historiography / Klaus Weber
  • Violence, social status, and blackness in early modern Germany : the case of the black trumpeter Christian Real (ca. 1643-after 1674) / Arne Spohr
  • Slavery and skin : the Native Americans Ocktscha Rinscha and Tuski Stannaki in the Holy Roman Empire, 1722-1734 / Craig Koslofsky
  • "I have no shortage of Moors" : mission, representation, and the elusive semantics of slavery in eighteenth-century Moravian sources / Josef Köstlbauer
  • Slavery and the law in eighteenth-century Germany / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt
  • From slave purchases to child redemption : a comparison of aristocratic and middle-class recruiting practices for "exotic" staff in Habsburg Austria / Walter Sauer
  • Black Hamburg : people of Asian and African descent navigating a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century job market / Annika Bärwald
  • Invisible products of slavery : American medicinals and dyestuffs in the Holy Roman Empire / Jutta Wimmler
  • An Augsburg pastor's vews on Africans, the slave trade, and slavery : Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Conversations about man (1804) / Mark Häberlein
  • "We do not need any slaves, we use oxen and horses" : children's letters from Moravian communities in Central Europe to slaves' children in Suriname (1829) / Jessica Cronshagen
  • "No German ship conducts slave trade!" The public controversy about German participation in the slave trade in the 1840s / Sarah Lentz.

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