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Sholihah, Fanada, Yety Rochwulaningsih, and Singgih Tri Sulistiyono. "Slave Trade Syndicates: Contestation of Slavery in Timor between Local Rulers, Europeans, and Pirates in the 19th century." Journal of Maritime Studies and National Integration 3, no. 1 (2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/jmsni.v3i1.5294.

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This article analyses the contestation of slavery activities in Timor during 19th century. The slave trade cannot be separated from contestation between three forces, namely the local authority (rajah), colonial entities residing in Timor, and pirates from Bugis, Ende, and Sulu. The rajah fought each other on the battlefield to decide which of them worthy of a “gift” of the war, which were women and children as merchandise for sale. Meanwhile, colonial complaints about the limited human labor to be employed in various types of work not only encouraged increased slave raiding and the purchase o

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Brown, Carolyn A. "Testing the Boundaries of Marginality: Twentieth-Century Slavery and Emancipation Struggles in Nkanu, Northern Igboland, 1920–29." Journal of African History 37, no. 1 (1996): 51–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700034794.

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In 1914 the Enugu Government Colliery and the construction of its railway link to the Biafran coast used slave-owning chiefs as labor recruiters. Although aware of slavery in the Nkanu clan area the state simply outlawed the slave trade and excessive treatment but left it to slaves to secure their ‘freedom’. Nkanu slavery was unusually pervasive, incorporating over half of some villages, with few opportunities for manumission or marriage to the freeborn. Severe ritualistic proscriptions excluded slave men from village politics. But forced labor destabilized slavery, causing unrest which reache

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Teubner, Melina. "Cooking at Sea. Different forms of labor in the era of the Second Slavery." Población & Sociedad 27, no. 2 (2020): 54–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.19137/pys-2020-270204.

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This paper deals with various forms of labor in the 19th century. Although Brazil officially banned the slave trade, the first half of the 19th century did no t bring a decline of this business. Rather, until at least 1851, large numbers of slaves were brought to Brazil. The structure of the slave trade was based on the labor needed to carry out the abduction of several million people. Slave ship cooks were resp onsible for feeding the people during their voyages, thus contributing to the infrastructure and reproduction of the slave trade. By using a micro - historical approach to examine the

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Wahl, Jenny B. "The Jurisprudence of American Slave Sales." Journal of Economic History 56, no. 1 (1996): 143–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700016053.

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An analysis of all appellate cases involving slave-sales reveals that southern courts helped minimize the costs of trading in slaves. Slave-sales law also surpassed other contemporaneous commercial law in sophistication. Why? Greater information gaps between slave buyers and sellers called for more complex institutional support. The enormous property value embodied by slaves also led to more litigation, greater need for settled law, and a more even match of power between plaintiff and defendant. Additionally, legal rules surrounding slave sales substituted for the employment law governing free

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Jean, Martine. "Liberated Africans, Slaves, and Convict Labor in the Construction of Rio de Janeiro's Casa de Correção: Atlantic Labor Regimes and Confinement in Brazil's Port City." International Review of Social History 64, S27 (2019): 173–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859019000105.

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AbstractFrom 1834 to 1850, Latin America's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção in Rio de Janeiro, was a construction site where slaves, “liberated Africans”, convicts, and unfree workers interacted daily, forged identities, and deployed resistance strategies against the pressures of confinement and the demands of Brazil's eclectic labor regimes. This article examines the utilization of this motley crew of workers, the interactions among “liberated Africans”, slaves, and convict laborers, and the government's intervention between 1848 and 1850 to restrict slave labor at the prison in favor

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de Sánchez, Sieglinde Lim. "Crafting a Delta Chinese Community: Education and Acculturation in Twentieth-Century Southern Baptist Mission Schools." History of Education Quarterly 43, no. 1 (2003): 74–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2003.tb00115.x.

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During Reconstruction between one-fourth and one-third of the southern African-American work force emigrated to northern and southern urban areas. This phenomenon confirmed the fears of Delta cotton planters about the transition from slave to wage labor. Following a labor convention in Memphis, Tennessee, during the summer of 1869, one proposed alternative to the emerging employment crisis was to introduce Chinese immigrant labor, following the example of countries in the Caribbean and Latin America during the mid nineteenth century. Cotton plantation owners initially hoped that Chinese “cooli

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Kokdas, Irfan, and Yahya Araz. "The Changing Nature of the Domestic Service Sector in 19th-Century Istanbul." Archiv orientální 90, no. 1 (2022): 61–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.90.1.61-91.

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Istanbul, a power nexus in the Ottoman world, witnessed a proliferation of female child labor in domestic service over the course of the 19th century. This study shows that slave ownership and the recruitment of girl domestics were highly class-sensitive phenomena. This means that 19th-century Istanbul groups of middling economic means, who could not easily access the slave market, could recruit girl domestics with lower wages. The study claims that the rising presence of girl child labor in domestic service did not in itself bring about the immediate disappearance of domestic female slaves, a

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Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe, and Guilherme de Oliveira. "Slavery versus Labor." Review of Law & Economics 17, no. 3 (2021): 495–568. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rle-2021-0049.

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Abstract Slavery has been a long-lasting and often endemic problem across time and space, and has commonly coexisted with a free-labor market. To understand (and possibly eradicate) slavery, one needs to unpack its relationship with free labor. Under what conditions would a principal choose to buy a slave rather than to hire a free worker? First, slaves cannot leave at will, which reduces turnover costs; second, slaves can be subjected to physical punishments, which reduces enforcement costs. In complex tasks, relation-specific investments are responsible for high turnover costs, which makes p

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Chira, Adriana. "Affective Debts: Manumission by Grace and the Making of Gradual Emancipation Laws in Cuba, 1817–68." Law and History Review 36, no. 1 (2017): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248017000529.

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Drawing on thirty freedom suits from nineteenth-century eastern Cuba, this article explores how some slaves redefined slaveholders' oral promises of manumissions by grace from philanthropic acts into contracts providing a deferred wage payout. Manumissions by grace tended to reward affective labor (loyalty, affection) and to be granted to domestic slaves. Across Cuba, as in other slave societies of Spanish America, through self-purchase, slaves made sustained efforts to monetize the labor that they did by virtue of their ascribed status. The monetization of affective work stands out amongst su

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Temin, Peter. "The Labor Market of the Early Roman Empire." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34, no. 4 (2004): 513–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002219504773512525.

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The available evidence on wages and labor contracts supports the existence of a functioning labor market in the early Roman empire, in which workers could change jobs in response to market-driven rewards. Slaves were included in the general labor market because Roman slavery, unlike that in the United States and in Brazil, permitted frequent manumission to citizen status. Slaves' ability to improve their status provided them with incentives to cooperate with their owners and act like free laborers. As a result, the supply and demand for labor were roughly equilibrated by wages and other paymen

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Mikidadi, Hamisi Alawi, and Rwegashora Afredina. "Historical Context of the Transformation of the Nyamwezi Migrant Labourers: From Slave Labour to Wage Labour, 1890s–1960s." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 07, no. 12 (2024): 9224–34. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14531282.

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This research critically examines the evolution of labor among the Nyamwezi people spanning the period from the 1890s to the 1960s, with a primary focus on the transformation from slave labor to wage labor. Employing a qualitative research approach, the study utilized methods such as focus group discussions (FGD) and interviews, supplemented by documentary reviews and archival materials. The analytical framework drew upon Social Exclusion and Conflict Theory, culminating in an innovative perspective termed the "development of capitalism over labor shift-question." This framework posits that th

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Su, Longhao, and Lijuan Qin. "The Philosophical Implications and Contemporary Value Insights of “Labor Creates Humanity” from Hegel's "Master-Slave Dialectic"." Scientific Journal Of Humanities and Social Sciences 6, no. 8 (2024): 33–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/reprpy35.

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In Hegel's "Master-Slave Dialectic," labor is not only a means to achieve freedom but also a process of self-creation. Through labor, the slave negates their own nature, gradually surpassing their mere slave status to gain self-awareness and freedom. Meanwhile, the master, often reliant on the slave's labor is compelled to accept material provisions from the slave, creating a material dependency that forces the master to negate their own essence and be disciplined into a new form by the slave. This dependency of the master is not only material but also involves recognition of the slave's socia

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Stilwell, Sean, Ibrahim Hamza, and Paul E. Lovejoy. "The Oral History of Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: An Interview with Sallama Dako." History in Africa 28 (2001): 273–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172218.

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A powerful community of royal slaves emerged in Kano Emirate in the wake of Usman dan Fodio's jihad (1804-08), which established the Sokoto Caliphate. These elite slaves held administrative and military positions of great power, and over the course of the nineteenth century played an increasing prominent role in the political, economic, and social life of Kano. However, the individuals who occupied slave offices have largely been rendered silent by the extant historical record. They seldom appear in written sources from the period, and then usually only in passing. Likewise, certain officials

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Maréchaux, Benoît. "Purchasing Slaves Overseas for the Business of War." Journal of Global Slavery 7, no. 3 (2022): 282–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836x-00703002.

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Abstract Drawing on merchant letters and account books of military entrepreneurs, whose role in slave markets is still poorly understood, this article explores the Mediterranean activities of the Genoese contractors who emerged as major slave traffickers while operating galleys for the Spanish Monarchy. By examining their operations as slave buyers rather than as slave makers, this study analyzes how and why early modern military entrepreneurs mobilized forced labor beyond national borders. The article shows that in the specific context of the early 17th century, Genoese galley managers obtain

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Thomas, Robin L. "Slavery and Construction at the Royal Palace of Caserta." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 78, no. 2 (2019): 167–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2019.78.2.167.

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In documenting architecture's history, scholars have frequently overlooked the use of slave labor. In Slavery and Construction at the Royal Palace of Caserta, Robin L. Thomas examines the lives of the slaves who built the palace, begun in 1752 near Naples. Most of the slaves employed there were Muslim corsairs who had been captured at sea, and they were caught up in long-standing political and religious conflicts between the Two Sicilies and the Maghreb states. Converting these Muslim captives to Christianity became a key part of the Neapolitan court's efforts to battle the corsair threat, and

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Zilfi, Madeline C. "EHUD R. TOLEDANO, Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1998). Pp. 197. $18.00 paper." International Journal of Middle East Studies 32, no. 1 (2000): 175–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743800002208.

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Compared with the cottage industry that has grown up around the study of slavery in Africa and the Americas, slavery in the Ottoman East barely registers as a target of inquiry. Ottomanists and Islamicists have tended to avoid it altogether, and global comparativists have given little play to slave systems that, like the Ottoman, did not center on plantation labor. Military slaves and other varieties of “elite slaves” in the Ottoman Empire have been exceptions to the general indifference, although considering the long and complex history of elite slave (kul) manpower in the 600 years of Ottoma

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AHMAD, ABDUSSAMAD H. "TRADING IN SLAVES IN BELA-SHANGUL AND GUMUZ, ETHIOPIA: BORDER ENCLAVES IN HISTORY, 1897–1938." Journal of African History 40, no. 3 (1999): 433–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853799007458.

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Like other empires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, expansion and slavery went hand in hand in Ethiopia, contrary to imperial justifications based on the abolition of the slave trade and slavery. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Ethiopian empire incorporated the northwestern border enclaves of Bela-Shangul and Gumuz into greater Ethiopia. Having obtained the subordination of the local Muslim warlords, the emperor then demanded tribute from them in slaves, ivory and gold. Slaves were used as domestics in the imperial palace at Addis Ababa and the houses of state

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Sampaio, Elias Oliveira. "Celso Furtado: Tensions and Contradictions about the manpower problem in his classical book Economic Formation of Brazil." Nexos Econômicos 11, no. 2 (2019): 8–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.9771/rene.v11i2.26250.

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The article discusses the issue of manpower in the classical book Economic Formation of Brazil of Celso Furtado. The goal is to demonstrate that despite the importance of the classical text to understanding the process of building of country´s economy, the content and sequencing of Furtado's arguments to explain the process of Brazilian underdevelopment in the first half of 1900s should be reviewed conceptually, analytically and theoretically due some tensions and contradictions observed on his own text, specifically, when he argues the reasons for the exclusion of the former slave – and their

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Bailey, Ronald. "The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England." Social Science History 14, no. 3 (1990): 373–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014555320002085x.

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The significance of the slave trade and slavery-related commerce—what I will call the slave(ry) trade—in contributing to the development of colonial America and the United States has been a persistent theme in the work of Afro-American scholars. Two scholars in particular should be cited in this regard. W. E. B. DuBois (1896: 27) pointed out that slave labor was not widely utilized because the climate and geography of New England precluded the extensive development of agriculture: “The significance of New England in the African slave-trade does not therefore lie in the fact that she early disc

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Balugyan, Anagid S. "LIABILITY FOR THE USE OF SLAVE LABOR (ART. 127.2 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION): PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE OF APPLICATION." LEGAL ORDER: History, Theory, Practice 41, no. 2 (2024): 159–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.47475/2311-696x-2024-41-2-159-163.

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The article examines problematic aspects of the application of the rule on criminal liability for the use of slave labor. It is emphasized that, according to current legislation, the use of slave labor as a crime means exclusively the use of human labor in the position of a slave; the use of slave labor presupposes the establishment and ensuring the permanence of the victim’s slave status. The need to prevent these crimes using the norms and mechanisms of the criminal legal order, which act as a central link in the comprehensive provision of the rights of the victim, is outlined. It is noted t

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Eltis, David. "THe Volume, Age/Sex Ratios, and African Impact of the Slave Trade: Some Refinements of Paul Lovejoy's Review of the Literature." Journal of African History 31, no. 3 (1990): 485–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700031194.

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Continuing the discussion of issues relating to Africa that arise from research into the volume of the Atlantic slave trade, this comment pursues three points raised by Paul Lovejoy's recent update in the Journal of African History (December 1989). An independent count of the data in the Mettas-Daget catalogue of French slaving ships and a careful assessment of its possible incompleteness makes it unlikely that upward adjustment greater than 12 per cent can be justified, giving an overall total for French exports from Africa of 1,125,000 for the period 1700–1810. Analysis of other research rec

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Jean, Martine. "The “Law of Necessity”." Journal of Global Slavery 7, no. 1-2 (2022): 177–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836x-00701010.

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Abstract In June 1835, the Brazilian parliament promulgated a stringent law which punished enslaved persons convicted of assassinating their masters with capital punishment. Called the “law of necessity,” the regulation targeted the leaders of slave rebellions and established the death penalty as punishment against slave resistance. Research on the enforcement of the law demonstrated that while the regulation increased public hangings of the enslaved, overall fewer convict slaves were executed because of the law than had their sentences commuted to galé perpétua or a lifetime of penal servitud

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Allen, Richard. "Slavery in a Remote but Global Place: the British East India Company and Bencoolen, 1685-1825." Social and Education History 7, no. 2 (2018): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/hse.2018.3374.

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Histories of the British East India Company usually ignore the company’s use of slave labor. Records from its factory at Bencoolen in Sumatra provide an opportunity to examine company attitudes and policies toward its chattel work force in greater detail. These sources reveal that the company drew slaves from a global catchment area to satisfy the demand for labor in its far-flung commercial empire, shed light on policies and practices regarding the treatment of company slaves, and illustrate the company’s role in the development of increasingly interconnected free and forced labor trades duri

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Pereira, Thales Augusto Zamberlan. "Poor Man's Crop? Slavery in Brazilian Cotton Regions (1800-1850)." Estudos Econômicos (São Paulo) 48, no. 4 (2018): 623–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0101-41614843tzp.

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Abstract Much of the literature about cotton production in Brazil during the nineteenth century considers cotton as a "poor man's crop" - cultivated by small farmers who did not employ a large slave labor force. However, information provided in population maps from the period between 1800 and 1840 shows that slaves represented half the population in Maranhão, the most important cotton exporter in Brazil until the 1840s. This represented a higher share than in any region in northeast Brazil and was comparable to the slave population shares recorded in the United States' cotton South. This paper

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Reece, Robert L. "Whitewashing Slavery: Legacy of Slavery and White Social Outcomes." Social Problems 67, no. 2 (2019): 304–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spz016.

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AbstractLegacy of slavery research has branched out into an important new niche in social science research by making empirical connections between the trans-Atlantic slave trade and contemporary social outcomes. However, the vast majority of this research examines black-white inequality or black disadvantage without devoting corresponding attention to the other side of inequality: white advantage. This study expands the legacy of slavery conversation by exploring whether white populations accrue long-term benefits from slave labor. Specifically, I deploy historical understandings of racial bou

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van der Zanden, Christine Schmidt. "Slave labor in Nazi concentration camps." Holocaust Studies 22, no. 4 (2016): 451–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2016.1187840.

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Beorn, Waitman Wade. "Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 30, no. 2 (2016): 360–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcw030.

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Hopper, Matthew S. "East Africa and the End of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade." Journal of African Development 13, no. 1-2 (2011): 39–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jafrideve.13.1-2.0039.

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Abstract The conventional historiography claims that the East African slave trade came to an end in the 1880s as a result of the British Royal Navy's diligent patrols in the Indian Ocean. This paper argues instead that the slave trade from East Africa to Eastern Arabia endured long after the 1880s, in part because sustained demand for slave labor in Arabia and the Gulf–particularly in the lucrative pearl and date industries–remained high through the early twentieth century. The Royal Navy's celebrated antislavery campaign in the Indian Ocean was largely ineffective and was not the main factor

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Canbakal, Hülya, and Alpay Filiztekin. "Slavery and Decline of Slave-Ownership in Ottoman Bursa 1460–1880." International Labor and Working-Class History 97 (2020): 57–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547920000071.

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AbstractThe most widely accepted narrative about the long-term history of slavery in Ottoman lands rests on a supply-side story. According to this, military and diplomatic factors reduced the inflow of slaves from the seventeenth century onwards and, consequently, exorbitant prices turned slaveholding into a luxury inaccessible to all but the top elite. Using evidence from probate inventories of the city of Bursa and its hinterland from 1460 to 1880, the present study examines this narrative in light of the incidence of slave-ownership and prices. We observe substantial decline in slaveholding

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Pohl, Sebastian, Volker Witte, and Susanne Foitzik. "Division of labor and slave raid initiation in slave-making ants." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65, no. 11 (2011): 2029–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-011-1212-4.

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Livesey, Andrea. "Learning Slavery at Home." Journal of Global Slavery 6, no. 1 (2021): 31–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836x-00601003.

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Abstract Since Stephanie Camp wrote of the “rival” geography that enslaved people created on slave labor plantations, few studies outside the field of architectural history have used the built environment as a source to understand the lives of enslaved people and the mindsets of enslavers in the United States. This article takes adolescent outbuildings in Louisiana (garçonnières) as a starting point to understand how white parents taught and reinforced ideas of dominance over both the environment and enslaved people and simultaneously rooted young white sons to a slave labor plantation “home.”

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de Wet, Chris. "Slavery and Asceticism in John of Ephesus’ Lives of the Eastern Saints." Scrinium 13, no. 1 (2017): 84–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00131p09.

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This article examines the phenomenon of slavery – both institutional (being enslaved to other human beings) and divine (being enslaved to God) – and its relationship to asceticism in John of Ephesus’ (507-589 CE) Lives of the Eastern Saints. The study first examines the nature of institutional slavery in Lives. It is shown that John is somewhat indifferent with regards to institutional slaves – they are either depicted as symbols of the wealth and decadence of the elite, or part of the ascetic households of the virtuous. In both cases, though, the slaves serve to illuminate the vice or virtue

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Stewart, Louis J. "A CONTINGENCY THEORY PERSPECTIVE ON MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN AMONG U.S. ANTE-BELLUM SLAVE PLANTATIONS." Accounting Historians Journal 37, no. 1 (2010): 91–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.37.1.91.

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This paper examines the management control-system design of mid-19th century U.S. slave plantations using a contingency theory framework. Large rice plantations that relied on forced labor and tidal-flow agricultural technology were very profitable for their owners. This paper presents a model that links these favorable operating results to a close fit between the control-system design and three key contingent environmental variables. Absentee owners hired managers to provide on-site oversight and periodic operational reporting. These managers relied on slave drivers to assign individualized d

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Chalhoub, Sidney. "The Politics of Ambiguity: Conditional Manumission, Labor Contracts, and Slave Emancipation in Brazil (1850s–1888)." International Review of Social History 60, no. 2 (2015): 161–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859015000176.

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AbstractAlthough it seems that slaves in Brazil in the nineteenth century had a better chance of achieving freedom than their counterparts in other slave societies in the Americas, studies also show that a significant proportion of manumissions there were granted conditionally. Freedom might be dependent on a master’s death, on a master’s daughter marriage, on continued service for a number of years, etc. The article thus focuses on controversies regarding conditional manumission to explore the legal and social ambiguities between slavery and freedom that prevailed in nineteenth-century Brazil

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Proctor, Frank T. "Afro-Mexican Slave Labor in the Obrajes de Paños of New Spain, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries." Americas 60, no. 1 (2003): 33–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.2003.0079.

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On April 5, 1723, Juan Joseph de Porras, a mulatto slave laboring in an obraje de paños (woolen textile mill) near Mexico City, appeared before the Holy Office of the Inquisition for blasphemy. According to the testimony of six slaves, including Porras’ wife, while his co-workers prepared to bed down for the night in the obraje Porras had blasphemed over a beating he had received from the mayordomo (overseer) earlier in the day. Señor Pedregal, the owner of the obraje, testified that Porras was one of nearly thirty workers, all Afro-Mexican slaves or convicts, who lived and labored in his obra

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Coret, Clélia. "Runaway Slaves and the Aftermath of Slavery on the Swahili Coast." Journal of Global Slavery 6, no. 3 (2021): 275–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836x-00603003.

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Abstract Along the East African coast, marronage increased in the 19th century as a consequence of the intensification of the slave trade and the development of a plantation economy based on slave labor. Research on the fugitive slaves on the Swahili coast has been conducted since the 1980s and has mainly highlighted the ambivalent relationship (between rejection and belonging) of maroons with the dominant coastal culture—that of the slave owners, shaped in particular by Islam and urbanity. This article goes beyond the existing interpretations by showing that the aftermath of slavery often con

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Valdés, Dennis N. "The Decline of Slavery in Mexico." Americas 44, no. 2 (1987): 167–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1007289.

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The history of African slave societies in the New World can be divided into three distinct phases—formation, maturity and decline. The third, the demise of the slave order, will be the focus of attention in the present discussion. There appear to be three general patterns to the decline of slave societies in the Americas. The first, exemplified by the United States and Haiti, came quickly, but at a time when the slave order was deeply entrenched, engendering profound resistance accompanied by a civil war. In the second, demonstrated by Cuba and Brazil, it occurred over the course of a few deca

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Hopper, Matthew S. "Globalization and the Economics of African Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire." Journal of African Development 12, no. 1 (2010): 155–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jafrideve.12.1.0155.

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Abstract This paper examines the economic conditions that generated demand for slave labor in Arabia in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The existing historiography has tended to emphasize a cultural or religious basis for slavery in the region, ignoring the expanding global markets for Arabian commodities that fueled demand for slave labor. This paper argues that growing markets for Arabian pearls and dates in Europe and North America helped drive the slave trade from east Africa to eastern Arabia and the Gulf. Globalization helped spread Arabian commodities to markets aroun

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Silva, Viviane Regina da, Rogério Santos da Costa, and Leonardo Secchi. "A EXPORTAÇÃO DO TRABALHO ESCRAVO CONTEMPORÂNEO: internacionalização do Modelo Sucroenergético Brasileiro para a África." Revista Políticas Públicas 18, no. 2 (2015): 359. http://dx.doi.org/10.18764/2178-2865.v18n2p359-367.

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O objetivo deste ensaio foi expor ao debate a problemática da exportação de um modelo perverso de trabalho escravopor meio da Cooperação Internacional do Brasil com países africanos no setor sucroenergético. O ensaio enfatiza, ainda, que, tendoem vista os conflitos geopolíticos decorrentes da escassez de petróleo, as mudanças climáticas globais e a crescente demanda por combustíveis em economia global ascendente, ttais cooperações visam a estimular a produção de energias renováveis utilizando-se do etanol à base de cana-de-açúcar. Apontam-se as bases legais, históricas e estatísticas que carac

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Rust, Marion. "Invisible woman: female slavery in the New World." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 66, no. 1-2 (1992): 83–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002006.

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[First paragraph]Slave women in Caribbean society, 1650-1838, by BARBARA BUSH. Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 1990. xiii + 190 pp. (Cloth US$ 29.95,Paper US$ 12.50) [Published simultaneously by: James Curry, London, &Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean), Kingston.]Within the plantation household: Black and White women of the Old South,by ELIZABETH FOX-GENOVESE. Chapel Hill: University of North CarolinaPress, 1988. xvii + 544 pp. (Cloth US$ 34.95, Paper US$ 12.95)Slave women in the New World: gender stratiftcation in the Caribbean, byMARIETTA MORRISSEY. Lawrence: University Press of Kans

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Hardesty, Jared Ross. "Disappearing from Abolitionism's Heartland: The Legacy of Slavery and Emancipation in Boston." International Review of Social History 65, S28 (2020): 145–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859020000176.

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AbstractThis article examines why Boston's slave and free black population consisted of more than 1,500 people in 1750, but by 1790 Boston was home to only 766 people of African descent. This disappearing act, where the town's black population declined by at least fifty per cent between 1763 and 1790, can only be explained by exploring slavery, abolition, and their legacies in Boston. Slaves were vital to the town's economy, filling skilled positions and providing labor for numerous industries. Using the skills acquired to challenge their enslavement, Afro-Bostonians found freedom during the A

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Fourie, Johan, and Jan Greyling. "Slave labor productivity and wine output: Stellenbosch, 1680–1828." Journal of Wine Economics 18, no. 3 (2023): 191–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jwe.2023.23.

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AbstractThis paper examines wine output and slave labor productivity in the Dutch and British Cape Colony, leveraging annual tax censuses. We document a substantial increase in wine production, but, despite substantial institutional changes over more than a century, we find surprisingly stable median wine yields. Exploiting the farm-level nature of our data, we observe increasing heterogeneity in wine yields, suggesting that some farmers were able to realize productivity increases. We show that efficient slave labor utilization was a critical driver of productivity enhancement, largely unaffec

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Sandy, Laura. "Supervisors of Small Worlds: The Role of Overseers on Colonial South Carolina Slave Plantations." Journal of Early American History 2, no. 2 (2012): 178–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187707012x649585.

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The established historiography of slavery includes a substantial body of work on the colonial period, with particular emphasis upon the Atlantic slave trade and the development of the plantation system and the slave community embedded within it. However, one key element in the organization of plantations has received little attention: the overseers. Slave owners and slaves are well represented in documentary sources, yet overseers, despite their importance in the plantation system, remain shadowy figures in the story of slavery in the colonial era. Overseers were charged with the responsibilit

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Narváez, Benjamin N. "Abolition, Chinese Indentured Labor, and the State: Cuba, Peru, and the United States during the Mid Nineteenth Century." Americas 76, no. 1 (2019): 5–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tam.2018.43.

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Abolition forced planters in the post-Civil War US South to consider new sources and forms of labor. Some looked to Spanish America for answers. Cuba had long played a prominent role in the American imagination because of its proximity, geostrategic location, and potential as a slave state prior to the Civil War. Even as the United States embraced abolition and Cuba maintained slavery, the island presented Southern planters with potential labor solutions. Cuban elites had been using male Chinese indentured workers (“coolies” or colonos asiáticos) to supplement slave labor and delay the rise of

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Pereira, Thales A. Zamberlan. "Was it Uruguay or coffee? The causes of the beef jerky industry's decline in southern Brazil (1850 - 1889)." Nova Economia 26, no. 1 (2016): 7–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/3005.

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Abstract: What caused the decline of beef jerky production in Brazil? The main sustenance for slaves, beef jerky was the most important industry in southern Brazil. Nevertheless, by 1850, producers were already worried that they could not compete with Uruguayan industry. Traditional interpretations attribute this decline to the differences in productivity between labor markets; indeed, Brazil utilized slave labor,whereas Uruguay had abolished slavery in 1842. Recent research also raises the possibility of a Brazilian "Dutch disease",which resulted from the coffee export boom. We test both hypo

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Schulte, J. E. "Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp." German History 29, no. 1 (2010): 158–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghq099.

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Fiori, Nicholas. "Plantation Energy: From Slave Labor to Machine Discipline." American Quarterly 72, no. 3 (2020): 559–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aq.2020.0035.

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Kuazaqui, Edmir, and Teresinha Covas Lisboa. "Analysis of slave labor in the meatpacking sector." Revista de Gestão e Secretariado 15, no. 2 (2024): e3438. http://dx.doi.org/10.7769/gesec.v15i2.3438.

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This article aims to present a category of activity – slavery, where there is the subletting of workers without a legal employment relationship, without due remuneration as well as labor rights and responsibilities. In this way, companies that practice this type of activity reduce their operational labor costs, payment of taxes and increase the profit margin, bringing economic and mainly social impacts to both the worker and society, a qualitative reserarch with the meatpacking segment, one of the sectors in the country where part of this harmful practice converges in society.

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Jantzen, Mark. "Jewish Slave Labor from Stutthof Concentration Camp on Mennonite Farms in the Vistula Delta." Antisemitism Studies 9, no. 1 (2025): 3–35. https://doi.org/10.2979/ast.00042.

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Abstract: Mennonite farmers were part of the regional administrative system responsible for using agricultural slave labor from the Stutthof Concentration Camp. Correlating different types of records from the Stutthof archive, the German Federal archives, Mennonite genealogical records, and local address directories, this article illuminates a complex web of previously unknown Mennonite connections to the camp. The last phase of this labor program involved large numbers of Jews evacuated from camps in the Baltic countries and brought from Hungary via Auschwitz. Two unique letters from Mennonit

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Carson, Scott Alan. "Changing Institutions, Changing Net Nutrition: A Difference-in-Decompositions Approach to Understanding the U.S. Transition to Free-Labor." Review of Black Political Economy 46, no. 1 (2019): 65–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0034644618820928.

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The body mass index (BMI) reflects current net nutrition and health during economic development. This study introduces a difference-in-decompositions approach to show that although 19th century African American current net nutrition was comparable to working-class Whites, it was made worse-off with the transition to free-labor. BMI reflects net nutrition over the life-course, and like stature, slave children’s BMIs increased more than Whites as they approached entry into the adult slave labor force. Agricultural worker’s net nutrition was better than workers in other occupations but was worse-

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