The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding
slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to
massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been
studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the insurgents
remain open for discussion. Recently, several historians have
suggested that slaves achieved their own freedom by resisting
slavery, which counters the predominant argument that abolitionist
pressure groups, parliamentarians, and the governmental and
anti-governmental armies of the various slaveholding empires were
the prime movers behind emancipation. Marques, one of the leading
historians of slavery and abolition, argues that, in most cases, it
is impossible to establish a direct relation between slaves'
uprisings and the emancipation laws that would be approved in the
western countries. Following this presentation, his arguments are
taken up by a dozen of the most outstanding historians in this
field. In a concluding chapter, Marques responds briefly to their
comments and evaluates the degree to which they challenge or
enhance his view.
Seymour Drescher is Distinguished University Professor at the
University of Pittsburgh. He served as the first Secretary for the
European Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars in Washington D.C. (1984-85). Known for his studies on
Alexis de Tocqueville and the history of slavery, his book, The
Mighty Experiment (2002), was awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize.
His most recent book, Abolition: A History of Slavery and
Antislavery, is being published by Cambridge University Press.
Pieter C. Emmer was Professor of the history of the expansion of
Europe and the related migration movements at University of Leiden.
He was a visiting fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
(1978-1979), at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (2000-2001) and at
the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, The
Netherlands (2002-2003).
Joao Pedro Marques has been a researcher at the IICT (Lisbon)
since 1987. He obtained a PhD in History from the Universidade Nova
de Lisboa, where he taught African History. He has published dozens
of articles and several books on the subjects of slavery, abolition
and other colonial issues, including The Sounds of Silence
(Berghahn Books, 2006)."
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