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Part I. Explorations and first contacts -- The Atlantic world before 1492 -- Europe: a new age of trade and travel -- Medieval Africa -- The Americas -- Part II. Colonization and conquest -- The voyages of Columbus -- The Columbian exchange -- Earliest encounters -- Spanish colonial institutions in New Spain -- The colonization of Brazil -- Colonial settlements in Northern America and the Caribbean -- Part III: Connections, journeys, and war -- Atlantic trade and empire -- Slavery -- Part IV: The age of ideas -- The enlightenment -- The age of revolution -- New forms of resistance and expansion -- The abolition of slavery in the Atlantic -- Part IV: The paradox of modernity -- Industrialization -- Migration -- Atlantic societies in the nineteenth century -- Continued colonialism -- Conclusions.

Thomas Jefferson and St. George Tucker : the makings of revolutionary slaveholders / Annette Gordon-Reed -- Domesticating the captive nation : Thomas Jefferson and the problem of slavery / Peter S. Onuf -- Perfecting slavery : rational plantation management at Monticello / Lucia Cinder Stanton -- Personal encounters : Abraham Lincoln and African Americans / Jean Baker -- Lincoln and colonization / Eric Foner -- The theft of Lincoln in scholarship, politics, and public memory / David W. Blight -- American sphinx : Woodrow Wilson and race / John Milton Cooper Jr. -- W.E.B. Du Bois, Woodrow Wilson, and the dilemma of democracy and race in the Progressive Era / Manning Marable -- "People of many races" : the world beyond Europe in the Wilsonian imagination / Erez Manela

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Notes from the Author: Crime and Black Women's History -- 1. Of Law and Virtue: Black Women in Slavery, Freedom, and Early Criminal Justice -- 2. Service Savors of Slavery: Labor, Autonomy, and Turn-of-the-Century Urban Crime -- 3. Tricking the Tricks: Violence and Vice among Black Female Criminals -- 4. Roughneck Women, Pale Representations, and Dark Crimes: Black Female Criminals and Popular Culture -- 5. Deviant by Design: Race, Degeneracy, and the Science of Penology -- Conclusion. ''She was Born in this Prison'': Black Female Crime, Past and Present -- Appendix -- Abbreviations and Notes on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination-Humanity's Need for a New Ethical Code of Conduct -- The Security Council and the Protection of Human Rights -- The Future Shape of Europe -- Slavery as Piracy-The Legal Case for Reparations for Slavery -- Judaism as a Source of Human Rights -- Perceptions of the Other-Lessons from Jewish-Christian Dialogue -- Racism and Xenophobia in Virtual Russia -- Unease in the Global Village: German-language Racism on the Internet -- The European Race Directive: A Bridge so Far? -- The Drafting of the Articles on the Middle East and Antisemitism at the Durban Conference Against Racism.

Throughout the Civil War era, no other white American spoke more powerfully against slavery and for the ideals of racial democracy than did Wendell Phillips. Nationally famous as "abolition's golden trumpet," Phillips became the North's most widely hailed public lecturer, even though he espoused ideas most regarded as deeply threatening -- the abolition of slavery, equality among races and classes, and women's rights. James Brewer Stewart's study resolves this seeming paradox by showing how Phillips came to possess such extraordinary rhetorical gifts, how he used them to shape the politics of his times, and how he rooted them in his upbringing, marriage, and personal relationships.

AbstractThis article analyses the abolition of slavery and the transition to free labour in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, seeking to understand the terms and timing of Puerto Rican abolition and the nature of society in its wake. Especially important in Puerto Rico, it argues, was the intertwined nature of slavery and other forms of forced labour as well as the predominance of foreign merchants and planters in the island's economy, which created multi-class alliances between working-class Puerto Ricans and creole elites. These class dynamics interacted with events in the metropole to influence the terms of labour on the island.

In the autobiography of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, the first black author to be published in Britain, slavery was represented at best neutrally and at worst as spiritually and socially beneficial. Re-reading Gronniosaw's Narrative in the context of the Calvinist and Dutch Reformed confessional networks facilitating its composition and publication enables us to understand how and why a former slave would produce a text apparently advocating proslavery ideology. Gronniosaw's case demonstrates that black intellectuals, far from being solely concerned with abolitionism, participated in a broad array of political, religious and social movements during the eighteenth century, occasionally even those that supported slavery.

In 1861 Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, gave a legalistic account of why he must leave slavery untouched. By contrast in his second inaugural of 1865, Lincoln spoke as a god or a ghost, as George Kateb writes in his new book Lincoln's Political Thought. Lincoln blames providence (or God) for the moral evil of slavery and conjures up an ongoing extermination of white Americans as the only possible recompense for the generations of oppression wrought by Southern slave-holders as well as by Northerners who were complicit in their crime. Kateb's puzzle is how Lincoln moved from neutral broker to impassioned evangelist for freedom.

В статье воссоздана история одного из наименее изученных социальных явлений российского прошлого. Автором исследованы его наиболее существенные аспекты: политика царского правительства относительно института рабства, основные формы порабощения и область применения рабского труда, национальный состав рабов. Показана специфика легального рабства, в частности его ненаследственный характер. ; The author reconstructs one of the most poorly investigated social institutions in Russia's past. The author analyzes its most important aspects: the Tsarist Government's activities concerning slavery, the main forms of enslavement, sphere where slave labour was used and the national structure of slaves. The author shows specific character of legal slavery and points out that it was not hereditary.

Considering the demand for reparation for slavery by African people, the transference of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)—the international currency issued by the International Monetary Fund—from responsible core nations to African nations and people in the diaspora could provide a uniquely flexible solution to restitution. From a historical perspective, slavery helped create the accumulation of financial and human capital, the wealth, underlying the productivity of the globalized production system. This wealth is indivisible while control over it is divisible. Restitution through SDR redistribution could return a rightful share of control over existing social productive capacity to African people.

Although the international campaign against the slavery of the Haitian day laborers in the Dominican Republic gathered new momentum during the celebration of the Columbus Quincentenary, it was characterized by a marked difference in tone, reflected by the replacement of the term "slavery" with the term "forced labor". The Haitian question in the Dominican Republic is, however, more important than ever: The number of Haitians and of Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic has almost doubled in the past 10-15 years, despite the expulsion order of June 1991 and the increasing occurrence of migration flows within a Caribbean-United States context. (Lat Am Perspect/DÜI)

Marcel Dorigny, The "Société des Amis des Noirs" and colonial projects in Africa.
The "Société des Amis des Noirs", founded in 1788, campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery, but was not at all against colonisation. Or rather it envisaged the complete integration of the nation regenerated by the rights of man and envisaged transferring the plantation economy to Africa, without slavery. The continent would thus become a French breadbasket and market and its inhabitants would be educated in the new principles of reason and liberty. This project can be seen as the préfiguration of the republican version of the second French colonisation in the 19th Century.

Affirmative action has two meanings: to affirm equal individual opportunity and to ensure equal group representation. The former meaning predominated until 1969, when the Nixon administration introduced numerical quotas or goals in hiring. Subsequently, Republicans opposed and Democrats endorsed group goals. As polls show that most Americans, including blacks, oppose such policies, the Democratic Party has been hurt by supporting them. Despite the strength of American egalitarianism, blacks have been an oppressed caste for most of the nation's history of statutory slavery and segregation. How best to resolve this contradiction between our egalitarian creed and the legacy of slavery remains the American dilemma.