Slaving Zones : Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery

Through engagement with the ‘Slaving Zones' theory, our authors elucidate new and complimentary ways in which identity, law, custom, political organization, and definitions of ‘self’ and ‘other’ have impacted the course of global slavery from ancient times through the present Slaving Zones Contents Preface The Leiden Slavery Studies Association: Genesis of an Institution List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Maps Figures Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction. Slaving Zones in Global History: The Evolution of a Concept 1 What is a Slaving Zone? 1) Geographical Slaving Zones 2) Political Organization and Slaving Zones 3) Identity—Particularly Religious Identity—and Slaving Zones 4) The Porousness of No-Slaving Zones 2 Additions to the EMS Model Made in this Volume 5) The Substitution of ‘Race’ as an Identity Marker in New World Slaving Zones 6) ‘Customs’ or ‘Level of Civilization’ as Grounds for Inclusion in a Slaving Zone 7) Gender and Slaving Zones 8) The Idea that Identity Markers of Almost any Kind can be Used to Commodify People 9) Development of a Global No-Slaving Zone in the Modern Era 10) Self-Inclusion 11) Power Regimes and No-Slaving Zones 3 Overview of the Chapters in this Volume 4 Some Contributions Made to the Historiography of Global Slavery in this Volume Slaving Zones to the Dawn of the Modern Era “To Serve Them All the More”: Christian Slaveholders and Christian Slaves in Antiquity 1 Introduction 2 Theological and Ecclesiastical Contexts of Slaveholding Biblical Law “Neither Slave nor Free” Baptism and Manumission Manumission and Moral Obligation 3 Christian Slaveholding and Moral Obligation 4 Jewish Slaveholders, Enslaved Christians 5 Freedom and Slavery—A Blurred Boundary 6 Conclusion Bibliography Christianities in Conflict: The Black Sea as a Genoese Slaving Zone in the Later Middle Ages 1 Introduction 2 The Orthodox Slave Population of Genoa 3 Challenging Slave Status: The Case of Cali 4 Christians, Muslims, and Slaving Zones 5 Conclusion Bibliography Considerations About the Territorial Distribution of Slaves in the Romanian Principalities 1 Introduction 2 Slavery in the Romanian Principalities: Some Data 3 Slaving Zones in the Romanian Principalities 4 Territorial Aspects of Slavery in the Romanian Principalities until circa 1830 5 Territorial Aspects of Slavery in the Romanian Principalities in the Period of Emancipation, ca. 1830–ca. 1860 6 Conclusion Bibliography Iberia’s Old World Slaving Zones in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods 1 Introduction 2 Muslim Iberia’s Slaving Zones 3 Muslim Spain’s No-Slaving Zones 4 Christian Iberia’s No-Slaving Zones 5 Christian Iberia’s No-Slaving Zones 6 Conclusion: How Useful is the Idea of Slaving Zones? Bibliography Chasing ‘Caribs’: Defining Zones of Legal Indigenous Enslavement in the Circum-Caribbean, 1493–1542 1 Introduction 2 Who were the “Caribs”? Defining a Controversial Identifier 3 The Realities of the Carib/Taíno Divide 4 The Creation of the ‘Carib’ Trope and the First Caribbean ‘Slaving Zone’ 5 Expanding the Legal Indian Slave Trade to the Lesser Antilles and Tierra Firme: 1503–1514 6 King Ferdinand: a Proponent of Indian Enslavement, 1508–1516 7 Legally Defining Carib Lands and the Consequent Growth of the Slave Trade 8 Conclusion: Decline of the Spanish Caribbean Slave Trade Bibliography Slaving Zones in Early Modern Times(17th–19th Centuries) How Useful is the Concept of Slaving Zones? Some Thoughts from the Experience of Dahomey and Kongo 1 Introduction 2 Case Study: Dahomey 3 Case Study: Kongo 4 Conclusion: Religious Safe Zones? Bibliography Some Thoughts Concerning the Effects of the European Slave Trade on the Dynamics of Slavery in Madagascar in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 1 Introduction 2 Methods of Enslavement Warfare Raiding Justice Other Methods of Enslavement 3 Slavery and the Slave Trade in Madagascar 4 The Role of the Intra-Malagasy Slave Trade 5 Origins of Export Slaves 6 Conclusion Bibliography “Hearing the Sound of the Flute from Zanzibar”: Migrating Communities and Slave Trade Routes in the Indian Ocean 1 Introduction 2 Omani Economic Expansion from Asia to Africa 3 The Arrival of the Baloch in East Africa 4 Trading Communities on the East African Coast 5 Conclusion Bibliography Slave Protection and Resistance in Colonial Mauritius, 1829–1830 1 Introduction 2 Slave Protection and Legal Pluralism 3 Corporal Punishment 4 Enslaved Women, Motherhood, and Violence 5 Slave Resistance to Bondage 6 Conclusion Bibliography Slaving Zones in a Post-Abolition World The Price You Pay: Choosing Family, Friends, and Familiarity Over Freedom in the Leeward Islands, 1835–1863 1 Introduction 2 From Slavery ... 3 To (Possible) Freedom ... 4 ... and Back Again (or Never Left) 5 Conclusion Bibliography Black Bondspeople, White Masters and Mistresses, and the Americanization of the Upper Mississippi River Valley Lead District 1 Introduction 2 The Origins of Lead District Bondage and Its Effects on Families 3 Unfree Toils and Securing U.S. Supremacy 4 Resistance and Its Limits 5 Conclusion Bibliography A Female Slaving Zone? Historical Constructions of the Traffic in Asian Women 1 Introduction 2 Women’s Slavery in Asia before the Nineteenth Century 3 Colonial Expansion and the Creation of No-Slaving Zones 4 Nineteenth Century Trafficking in Women for Brothel Prostitution 5 Early Twentieth Century “no traffic” Zones 6 League of Nations’ Report of 1932 7 Conclusion Bibliography Slaving Zones, Contemporary Slavery and Citizenship: Reflections from the Brazilian Case 1 Introduction 2 Slaving Zones: From Antiquity to Modern Slavery? 3 Slave Labor: Forced Labor, Rights and Citizenship 4 The Socio-Historic Formation of Rural Workers as a Subaltern Population Colonization, Rurality and Profitability 5 The Economic and Affective Establishment of Subaltern Status in the Rural World 6 Personal Domination and the Formation of Citizenship 7 The Introduction of Social Rights in the Brazilian Rural Sphere: Stakes, Consequences, and Limitations 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index Listen to podcast on “Slaving Zones, Contemporary Slavery and Citizenship: Reflections from the Brazilian Case”. In Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, fourteen authors—including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery—engage with the ‘Slaving Zones'theory. This theory has recently taken the field of Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by the editors was to see if the ‘Slaving Zones'theory could be applied in the wider context of long-term global history.The results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors have added to the concept of ‘Slaving Zones', helping to make it one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent of Orlando Patterson's Slavery and Social Death. In 'Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery', fourteen authors - including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery - engage with the 'Slaving Zones' theory. This theory has recently taken the field of Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by the editors was to see if the `Slaving Zones' theory could be applied in the wider context of long-term global history. The results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors have added to the concept of `Slaving Zones', helping to make it one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent of Orlando Patterson's 'Slavery and Social Death'