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Slavery and Its Legacy: Journal from Routledge Marks Bicentenary of Abolition
Added: (Fri Jun 29 2007)
As the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade is celebrated this year, the Routledge journal Slavery and Abolition offers new insights into the dismantling of slave systems and the lasting impact of slavery in the world today.
For more than 25 years, Slavery and Abolition has been the only journal devoted entirely to a discussion of human bondage from the ancient period to the present. Issued three times a year, the journal publishes the work of leading scholars around the world on the demographic, socio-economic, historical and psychological aspects of slavery.
�Slavery and Abolition is unique because of its specific concentration on slave and post-slave studies,� says journal editor Gad Heuman, who is a professor of history at Warwick University in the UK. He is in the process of preparing a special issue of the journal entitled �Remember Slave Trade Abolition: The Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in International Perspective.�
The law that abolished the slave trade in the former British Empire was passed on March 25, 1807. Even then, many slaves did not gain their final freedom until 1838. Although slavery was finally abolished in the Americas in 1888, it is estimated that over 20 million people are still living in forms of servitude today.
Slavery and Abolition is concerned with the dismantling of the slave systems and with the lasting effects of slavery. The journal publishes research articles, comments, reflections and review articles. Frequent special issues are published on special topics, including such subjects as:
� Children in European Systems of Bondage
� Resistance to Slavery in Asia and Africa
� Women in Western Systems of Slavery
� Public Art, Artifacts and Atlantic Slavery (forthcoming)
�In this bicentenary year, Slavery and Abolition provides a unique forum to help readers understand the history of slavery, the key events in its abolition, and its legacy around the world today,� says Heuman.
The current issue (Volume 28, Issue 1) features a debate about an influential abolitionist, Olaudah Equiano (renamed Gustavus Vassa by his white master), who published a chilling account of the Middle Passage in his 1789 autobiography. The book became an important work in the growing abolitionist movement of the time.
A 2005 biography of Equiano by literature professor Vincent Carretta presented evidence that he was born in South Carolina rather than Africa, meaning that his account of the middle passage was fabricated or constructed as a composite from accounts of fellow slaves. The current issue of Slavery and Abolition features a debate between Carretta and Paul Lovejoy, a historian, who argues that Equiano was in fact born in Africa, as he says in his autobiography.
�Why might Equiano have created an African nativity, and disguised an American birth?� asks Carretta. �The timing of the publication of [Equiano�s autobiography] was no accident. Equiano�s fellow abolitionists were calling for precisely the kind of account of Africa and the Middle Passage that he supplied.�
Lovejoy counters, �The autobiography was a means to public redemption, which he secured through the recognition of his prominent subscribers who actually believed that he was an African. If Vassa invented an African birth, Carretta does not explain satisfactorily when he would have done this.�
The authors address many aspects of the heated debate surrounding Equiano�s origins in the current issue.
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Slavery and Abolition: Recent Contents Volume 27, Issue 3
Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African
* Paul E. Lovejoy
Colonizing the Black Atlantic: The African Colonization Movements in
Postwar Rhode Island and Nova Scotia
* W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz
Neither Slavery nor Abolitionism: James M. Pendleton and the Problem of
Christian Conservative Antislavery in 1840s Kentucky
* Luke E. Harlow
Review:
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2005)
* Thomas Thurston
Volume 27, Issue 2
Children in European Systems of Slavery: Introduction
* Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller
African Children in the British Slave Trade During the Late Eighteenth Century
* Audra A. Diptee
The Children of Slavery - The Transatlantic Phase
* Paul Lovejoy
A Traffic Repugnant to Humanity: Children, the Mascarene
Slave Trade and British Abolitionism
* Richard B. Allen
The 'Invisible Child' in British West Indian Slavery
* Jerome Teelucksingh
From Slavery to Freedom: Children's Health in Barbados, 1823-1838
* Tara A. Inniss
Children and Slavery in the New World: A Review
* Gwyn Campbell
Volume 27, Issue 1
Becoming African: Identity Formation Among Liberated Slaves
in Nineteenth-Century Sierra Leone
* David Northrup
Nineteenth-Century Coastal Slave Trading and the British
Abolition Campaign in Sierra Leone
* Allen M. Howard
Identifying Pictorial Images of Atlantic Slavery: Three Case Studies
* Jerome S. Handler, Annis Steiner
The Politics of Silence: Race and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
* Sidney Chalhoub
The Upshur Inquiry: Lost Lessons of the Great Experiment
* Steven Heath Mitton
Reviews:
Taking Haiti to the People: History and Fiction of the Haitian Revolution
* Sue Peabody
Recasting African American History
* Richard H. King
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Charlotte Mora