Writing the History of Global Slavery

This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum American slavery being normative should be replaced a global slavery that is less American and more global. It argues that we can understand the global history of slavery if we connect it more closely to another important world institution ¿ empires in ways that historicise the study of history as an institution with a history that changes over time and space. Moreover, we can learn from scholars of modern slavery and use more than we do the enormous proliferation of usable sources about the lives, experiences and thoughts of the enslaved, from ancient to modern times, to make these voices of the enslaved crucial drivers of how we conceptualise and describe the varied kinds of global slavery in world history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

1. Models of slavery; 2. New ways of writing the history of slavery; 3. Lived experience; Bibliography.

Summary

This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology rather than history. It argues that we can understand the global history of slavery in ways that historicise the study of history as an institution with a history that changes over time and space. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Burnard, Trevor (University of Hull) Burnard, Burnard Trevor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009406277
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0940627-7
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Historiography, General & world history, General and world history, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, History: theory and methods