Karen Woods Weierman’s recent book, The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston, restores the complicated history of antislavery Boston’s ...
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In the late seventeenth century, Virginia colonist Edmund Scarburgh and his mistress Ann Toft owned and sold many Native laborers as indentured servants and ...
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How did late Romans experience disasters and military conflicts? Many scholars argue that these events contributed to the Empire's decline. However, this ...
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What are the challenges of accurately measuring import and export prices in West and Central Africa from the 15th century to the First World War? Our next ...
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The lecture will discuss how the construction of open-source relational databases has altered the scholarly study of slavery. Once it was thought that there ...
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What was the gender structure of war and violence during the Napatan and Meroitic periods? Our upcoming Lecture focuses on the gender background of war, ...
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How did court dwarfs navigate their unique social status in early modern German courts? Despite being perceived as privileged dependents, they served various ...
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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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The passage of the International Labour Organization’s Forced Labour Convention (No. 29) in 1930 was a momentous event in global labor history, signaling an ...
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