@article{nokey,

title = {Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia},

author = {Johan Heinsen},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},

volume = {6},

issue = {3},

pages = {343–368},

abstract = {In Scandinavia, a penal institution known as “slavery” existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Penal slaves laboured in the creation and maintenance of military infrastructure. They were chained and often stigmatized, sometimes by branding. Their punishment was likened and, on a few occasions, linked to Atlantic slavery. Still, in reality, it was a wholly distinct form of enslavement that produced different experiences of coercion than those of the Atlantic. Such forms of penal slavery sit uneasily in historiographies of punishment but also offers a challenge for the dominant models of global labour history and its attempts to create comparative frameworks for coerced labour. This article argues for the need for contextual approaches to what such coercion meant to both coercers and coerced. Therefore, it offers an analysis of the meaning of early modern penal slavery based on an exceptional set of sources from 1723. In these sources, the status of the punished was negotiated and practiced by guards and slaves themselves. Court appearances by slaves were usually brief—typically revolving around escapes as authorities attempted to identify security breaches. The documents explored in this article are different: They present multiple voices speaking at length, negotiating their very status as voices. From that negotiation and its failures emerge a set of practiced meanings of penal “slavery” in eighteenth-century Copenhagen tied to competing yet intertwined notions of dishonour.

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@article{nokey,

title = {Cumprir Marrocos em Portugal: a comunidade mourisca de Setúbal no século XVI [Fulfilling Morocco in Portugal: the Moorish community of Setúbal in the 16th century]},

author = {Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

abstract = {This article explores, in part, the coercive work of Moorish slaves in Setúnal (Portugal) in the 16th century and how that work is reproduced after freedom.

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@article{nokey,

title = {From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century},

author = {Preben Kaarsholm},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Atlantic Studies},

volume = {17},

issue = {3},

pages = {348-374},

abstract = {The focus of the essay is the emergence in the eighteenth century of discourses of abolition in the context of bonded labour and the trade in slaves from India. It relates this to the development in forms of unfree labour from slavery to indenture, and to the travels of abolitionism from the Indian Ocean world into that of the Atlantic. The study examines multinational dimensions of this early history of abolition and discusses more particularly how missionary enterprises based in Danish colonies in India contributed to the development of ideas of education, enlightenment, and natural rights that fed into emerging discourses of abolitionism. Further, the essay links eighteenth-century debates around abolition to discourses of protection and humanitarianism that became prominent in the last half of the nineteenth century in the context of imperialist competition and campaigns against the illegal slave trade.



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@article{nokey,

title = {Reconsidering the Southern European Model: Marital Status, Women’s work and labour relations in mid-eighteenth century Portugal},

author = {Filipa Ribeiro da Silva and Hélder Carvalhal},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Revista de Historia Económica. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History},

volume = {38},

issue = {1},

pages = {45–77},

abstract = {Challenging current ideas in mainstream scholarship on differences between female labour force participation in southern and north-western Europe and their impact on economic development, this article shows that in Portugal, neither marriage nor widowhood prevented women from participating in the labour market of mid-eighteenth-century. Our research demonstrates that marriage provided women with the resources they needed to work in various capacities in all economic sectors.

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@article{nokey,

title = {The Semiotics of Serfdom: How serfdom was perceived in the Swedish conglomerate state, 1561–1806},

author = {Marten Seppel},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},

volume = {45},

issue = {1},

pages = {48-70},

abstract = {While serfdom did not exist in Sweden and Finland, it was accepted in the Baltic and German provinces. The main aim of the paper is to explore how the institution of serfdom was understood and interpreted in Stockholm. It will argue that there were clichés, stereotypes, and prejudices that have shaped the discourse on serfdom.

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@article{nokey,

title = {Their Most Valuable and Most Vulnerable Asset: Slaves on the Early Sugar Plantations of Saint-Domingue (1697-1715)},

author = {Klaus Weber and Karsten Voss},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},

volume = {5},

issue = {2},

pages = {204-237},

abstract = {From 1698, colonial officers and investors from France forged a conglomerate of companies for transforming Saint-Domingue into a sugar colony, thus augmenting incomes of tax farmers and of the crown. Capital was also captured from enemy colonies and generated through trade with Spanish possessions. The most important capital were slaves, both as laborers and mortgageable property—crucial during the War of Spanish Succession, which brought price volatility and speculation in land and sugar. In order to secure the colony’s development, authorities restricted rights of owners over their slaves, preventing their sale or abuse. Only around 1715 was such protection of slaves suppressed.





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@article{nokey,

title = {Il lavoro militare nella prima età moderna (xvi-xvii sec.): soldati, guastatori e galeotti tra subordinazione e agency},

author = {Giulio Ongaro },

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

issuetitle = {L’empreinte domestique du travail},

journal = {MEFRIM: Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines},

volume = {131},

issue = {1},

pages = {15-27},

abstract = {The article aims at demonstrating that “domesticity” remained a fundamental element in the enrollment of men and, broadly, in the functioning of the military structure in spite of a supposed process of “nationalisation” of the armied between the early modern and the contemporary period. In this context, it also focuses on the agency of the soldiers, analysing different practices that affected the military structure and, broadly, the social context in which soldiers were placed.

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@article{nokey,

title = {From Persecution to (Potential) Emancipation: Female Slaves and Legal Violations in Ottoman Istanbul according to Court Registers (16th-17th Centuries)},

author = {Hayri Gökşin Özkoray},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World},

volume = {17},

issue = {2-3},

pages = { 257-280},

abstract = {This article deals with offences and crimes against female slaves, and those committed by female slaves, in Ottoman Istanbul (sixteenth-seventeeth centuries). Its main sources are imperial legislation and court records of the imperial capital, Istanbul, and its suburbs. Judicial archives remain the chief sources of early modern Ottoman historiography on gender. This contribution tackles slavery’s specificities regarding women, without ignoring the parallels with their male counterparts in the Ottoman Empire. By considering women as both objects and agents of legal violations and acts of violence, I simultaneously deal with the rights of slaveholders and slaves. Violations of these rights varied depending on the identity and juridical status of their authors, and were handled accordingly by the justice system. Thus, I consider violations committed by owners against their slaves, by slaves against their owners, and by third parties against the slaves of others. The rights and mutual obligations of masters and slaves were strictly defined in Ottoman law, although the judicial authorities upheld the preservation of private property above all. They dedicated themselves to fighting against the slightest doubt over masters’ quasi-absolute authority over their human possessions, whose unconditional obedience was required. Female slaves, in order to affirm their rights, had to provide irrefutable written proof or trustworthy verbal testimonies at the kadi courts.

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