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Im 19. Jahrhundert steigt Großbritannien zur mächtigsten Nation der Welt auf. Die britische Regierung herrscht zum Zeitpunkt der größten Ausdehnung des British Empire (1922) über mehr als 450 Millionen Menschen, also etwa ein Viertel der Weltbevölkerung. So haben die Entscheidungen, die in London getroffen werden, lange Zeit Einfluss auf Menschen ... mehr
Der Beitrag Das Inkrafttreten der Freiheit – der Slavery Abolition Act erschien zuerst auf Demokratiegeschichten.

Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroesand Marlon James' The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.

This book centers on the Africa-Atlantic-Americas system and its relationship to the complex of Atlantic slavery, regimes of slavery on land in Africa and America, enslavement and transport over land and water, and the slave trade in the Atlantic. The volume pays special attention to the South-South component as an essential factor in slavery and on the significance of the AAA system in the history of modernity and capitalism.