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In this talk, Christine Walker discusses her book, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire. Jamaica Ladies is the ...

What are the historical and socioeconomic factors that have contributed to the emergence and perpetuation of human trafficking and the commercial sex industry, ...

The main reason for the existence of military orders was to protect Christendom and contribute to its growth. In the context of the ongoing conflict between ...

How did the term "bracero" evolve from identifying landless peasants in the late nineteenth century to representing Mexican contract workers during World War ...

What did a life under the circumstances of enslavement and strong asymmetrical dependency do to children? What were the effects and how are they to be traced ...

What did a life under the circumstances of enslavement and strong asymmetrical dependency do to children? What were the effects and how are they to be traced ...

How did issues of intimacy, like sexuality, pregnancy, coercion, and family, shaped enslaved women’s decisions to resist during slave rebellions in the ...

What did Black freedom mean for the development of citizenship and democracy in the early United States? In this lecture, Damian Pargas (Leiden University) ...

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The legacy of slavery is a crucial social issue in some, if not all, Malagasy societies. To understand why this is the case, I argue that we need to analyze ...