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Annotated Bibliography for Future Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2018

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James Brewer Stewart  and
Elizabeth Swanson
Edited by
Elizabeth Swanson  and
James Brewer Stewart
Elizabeth Swanson
Affiliation:
Babson College
James Brewer Stewart
Affiliation:
Macalester College, Minnesota
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Human Bondage and Abolition
New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Plantation Slavery and Abolition, and Their Legacies in the Americas

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A comprehensive scholarly examination of the development and evolution of African American enslavement from 1700 onward.Google Scholar
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A close examination of rituals of dominance practiced by antebellum slaveholders and expressions of resistance by the enslaved.Google Scholar
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Walter Johnson writes a transformative history of the Cotton Kingdom of the old South, centering the damage done to Native American communities and to enslaved persons as the Mississippi Valley was made into the capital of the cotton economy that fueled the rise of transnational capitalism on the backs of those bought and sold in the transatlantic slave trade.Google Scholar
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A scholarly historical examination of the re-enslavement of African American women in the Deep South and their responses to their exploitation.Google Scholar
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An in-depth historical portrayal of post-Emancipation Southern enslavement as practiced in one particularly notorious state prison.Google Scholar
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A path-breaking study of the enslavement of Indian Americans throughout the Western Hemisphere from the time of the Spanish Conquest to the opening of the twentieth century.Google Scholar
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This volume presents the intertwined history of capitalism and slavery in the nineteenth-century United States, demonstrating how the highly destructive institution of slavery also contributed greatly to the growing capitalist economy of the country.Google Scholar
Sharpe, Christina. Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
An exploration of how sexual violence and sadism have constructed both black and white subjectivity during the era of plantation slavery and beyond.Google Scholar
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The most in-depth and complete historical account currently available of the American abolitionist movement.Google Scholar
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The most accessible history of the American abolitionist movement currently available, notable for its focus on the role of women in the movement.Google Scholar
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Shifting the typical focus of slavery studies from the Southern US, Warren chronicles the central role of enslavement to the earliest days of colonial settlement in New England.Google Scholar
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Wheat’s important study resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an important part of the combined Portuguese and Spanish empires, studying the impact of Luso-Africans in the Spanish Caribbean at the start of the transatlantic slave trade.Google Scholar

Human Trafficking and Contemporary Global Slavery

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Critiques the “savior complex” that motivates some opponents of sexual enslavement and offers a careful investigation of what motivates those who become sex workers.Google Scholar
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Offers an accessible overall introduction to the problem of today’s slavery.Google Scholar
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Explores linkages between enslavement and the destruction of natural environments, arguing that abolitionist activism is also environmental activism.Google Scholar
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Develops the case for a global economic strategy for eliminating contemporary slavery.Google Scholar
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An overview accompanied by statistics of the various forms of enslavement across the globe.Google Scholar
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Effectively critiques overly broad and/or restrictive definitions of contemporary slavery and argues for the application of human rights approaches.Google Scholar
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Original essays that analyze the effectiveness of current anti-trafficking regimes and the problems facing anti-trafficking advocates on the ground.Google Scholar
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A collection of scholarly essays that examines coercive forms of post-Emancipation labor substitution that have persisted into our time.Google Scholar
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A challenging historical critique of conventional academic understandings of slavery in the past and today that proposes radically new approaches.Google Scholar
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An accessible collection of first-hand testimony of slavery survivors from many walks of life.Google Scholar
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An influential historical analysis of enslavement that defines that condition as “social death.”Google Scholar
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Presents a global picture of contemporary slavery while employing a historical approach that explains national and regional variations.Google Scholar
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Focuses on Asian American workers in the garment industry, particularly in California, and the organizations that have worked to eradicate sweatshops.Google Scholar
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