From Human Trafficking to Modern Slavery: The Development of Anti-Trafficking Policy in the UK
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DOI: 10.1007/s10610-018-9375-4
Abstract: The UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 is the first national legislation to use the term ‘modern slavery’ and to explicitly target ‘slavery’ as opposed to ‘human trafficking’, ‘forced labour’, or other terms. This article explains… read more here.
Keywords: modern slavery; development; problem; policy ... See more keywords
Slavery from Space: Demonstrating the role for satellite remote sensing to inform evidence-based action related to UN SDG number 8
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DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.02.012
Abstract: The most recent Global Slavery Index estimates that there are 40.3 million people enslaved globally. The UN’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goal number 8, section 8.7 specifically refers to the issue of forced labour:… read more here.
Keywords: remote sensing; number; slavery; evidence based ... See more keywords
Colonialism, slavery and ‘The Great Experiment’: Carbon, nitrogen and oxygen isotope analysis of Le Morne and Bois Marchand cemeteries, Mauritius
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102335
Abstract: Abstract Slavery, colonialism and emancipation are important aspects of archaeological research in the Atlantic region, but the lifeways of colonial populations remain understudied in the Indian Ocean World. Here, we help to redress this imbalance… read more here.
Keywords: isotope analysis; colonialism; slavery; bois marchand ... See more keywords
Philip J. Caudrey. Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War. Warfare in History. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. 238. $99.00 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2019.142
Abstract: water supplies and dependence on plantation managers for subsistence. Violence and white supremacy upheld the regime, but on those counts Browne does not find Berbice to be exceptional. He distances himself from historiography based “on… read more here.
Keywords: philip caudrey; caudrey military; enslaved people; war ... See more keywords
George Whitefield: Life, Context, and Legacy. Edited by Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiii + 329 pp. $105.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640717001780
Abstract: “undermined the paternalistic ideals developed by southern slave holders” (238). That institutional slave owners like the Briery Presbyterian Church recognized and reported on this contradiction makes Oast’s argument both clear and powerful. A third, and… read more here.
Keywords: context legacy; whitefield life; life context; slavery ... See more keywords
Ancient African Christianity: An Introduction to a Unique Context and Tradition. By David E. Wilhite. London: Routledge, 2017. x + 426 pp. $112.00 cloth; $39.96, paper and e-book.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640718000963
Abstract: Spirit (and Christ) from Arian subordinationism, we may have the worst affirmation of human slavery” (99–100). Chapter 4 turns to hamartiology, soteriology, and eschatology. Comparative analysis of the Curse of Ham (Gen. 9:18–27) in the… read more here.
Keywords: african christianity; christianity introduction; ancient african; book ... See more keywords
Supremacy and the Origins of American Slavery
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640719001872
Abstract: Katharine Gerbner has provided readers a much-needed treatment of the relationship between Protestant Christianity and the emergence of White Supremacist racial ideology in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Scholars have long perceived the general… read more here.
Keywords: american slavery; origins american; supremacy origins; ideology ... See more keywords
Beyond Freedom's Reach: An Imperfect Centering of Women and Children Caught within Cuba's Long Emancipation and the Afterlife of Slavery
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DOI: 10.1017/s0147547919000231
Abstract: Abstract This article examines Cuba's long process of gradual emancipation (from 1868–1886) and the continual states of bondage that categorize the afterlife of Cuban slavery. The article addresses deferred freedom, re-enslavement, and maintenance of legal… read more here.
Keywords: women children; labor; freedom; emancipation ... See more keywords
Modern slavery and the race to fish
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07118-9
Abstract: Marine fisheries are in crisis, requiring twice the fishing effort of the 1950s to catch the same quantity of fish, and with many fleets operating beyond economic or ecological sustainability. A possible consequence of diminishing… read more here.
Keywords: labour abuses; race fish; slavery; catch ... See more keywords
Effective eradication of modern slavery
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DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0089
Abstract: Slavery is not a thing of the past but has simply morphed from chattel slavery into forced labour and debt bondage. While consumers are preoccupied with cheap labour and goods, and businesses aren't held accountable… read more here.
Keywords: effective eradication; modern slavery; eradication modern; slavery ... See more keywords
Chinese Contract Labor in the Wake of the Abolition of Slavery in the Americas: A New Form of Slavery or Transition to Free Labor in the Case of Cuba?
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DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2019.1623628
Abstract: ABSTRACT Using Cuban archival material (including many documents acquired by private U.S. collectors), this article examines the lives of Chinese contract laborers in Cuba—“coolies”—in the second half of the nineteenth century after they completed the… read more here.
Keywords: labor; transition; free labor; slavery ... See more keywords