Free Soil in the Atlantic World - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1138821225 ISBN 13 : 9781138821224

Editeur : Routledge, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Free Soil in the Atlantic World examines the principle that slaves who crossed particular territorial frontiers- from European medieval cities to the Atlantic nation states of the nineteenth century- achieved their freedom. Based upon legislation and judicial cases, each essay considers the legal origins of Free Soil and the context in which it was invoked: medieval England, Toulouse and medieval France, early modern France and the Mediterranean, the Netherlands, eighteenth-century Portugal, nineteenth-century Angola, nineteenth-century Spain and Cuba, and the Brazilian-Paraguay borderlands. On the one hand, Free Soil policies were deployed by weaker polities to attract worker-settlers; however, by the eighteenth century, Free Soil was increasingly invoked by European imperial centres to distinguish colonial regimes based in slavery from the privileges and liberties associated with the metropole.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sue Peabody is Professor of History at Washington State University Vancouver, USA. Her interests lie in slavery and race in France and its colonies.

Keila Grinberg is an Associate Professor of History at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brazil. She is an expert on slavery, gender and the law in Brazil.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1138821225
• ISBN 13: 9781138821224
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 162