My work addresses a persistent problem in African history: the deep history of slavery in the Lower Congo region. While historians acknowledge the importance ...
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Over the course of millennia Indigenous and European cultures profoundly diverged in how they organized their relationships with other animals. ...
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How did an alleged sodomy case in 1648 on an English East India Company ship shape social dynamics and attitudes towards homosexuality? Examining the events ...
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Extreme weather events, changing precipitation, and sea-level rise have made thosecliving in the global north more mindful of the vulnerability of lives and ...
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In seinem Brief an Philemon setzt sich der Apostel Paulus dafür ein, dass ein Sklave bekommt, was die christliche Taufformel ihm verspricht: „… da ist nicht ...
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How did Roman law perceive the distinction between freedom and enslavement? While initially stark, this division was permeable, allowing individuals to ...
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What is Black Event Theory (BET)? This opening lecture introduces BET from the ground up: its philosophical foundations, its departure from conventional ...
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How important is the little-known return of severely ill ex-inmates from Stalinist penitentiaries (1930-1953) compared to the widely known transfers within the ...
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This lecture examines the ways in which Christianity came to define the debate over slavery and freedom – and the nature of the free black subject – in the ...
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The study of captivity in the early modern Mediterranean has largely relied on European and Ottoman sources. The Arabic archive furnishes further information ...
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