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In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national
identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism
and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical
guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social
conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving
past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matter
movement in 2020, when statues of enslavers and colonizers were
toppled, controversial debates about streets and places named after
them re-ignited, and the European Union apologized for slavery
after the racist murder of George Floyd. Related debates focus on
museums, on artworks acquired unjustly in societies under colonial
rule, the question of whether and how museums should narrate the
hidden past of enslavement and colonialism, including their own
colonial origins with respect to narratives about presumed European
supremacy, and the need to establish new monuments for the
enslaved, their resistance, and abolitionists of African descent.
In this volume, we address this dissonant cultural heritage in
Europe, with a strong focus on the tangible remains of enslavement
in the Atlantic space in the continent. This may concern, for
instance, the residences of royal, noble, and bourgeois enslavers;
charitable and cultural institutions, universities, banks, and
insurance companies, financed by the traders and owners of enslaved
Africans; merchants who dealt in sugar, coffee, and cotton; and the
owners of factories who profited from exports to the African and
Caribbean markets related to Atlantic slavery.
The 1839 Amistad revolt and the fate of the African slaves on board
are well documented in books and in a blockbuster film. Michael
Zeuske adds a new dimension to this history: the story of the
people behind the Amistad. Based on his discovery-in previously
unknown collections in Cuba and Spain-of the captain's logbook, the
cook's notes, and the merchants' ledgers and correspondence, he
paints an eye-opening portrait of the slave trade between Africa
and the Spanish Caribbean. After the British Empire abolished the
slave trade in 1808 and enforced the ban with warships, slave
traders in Africa, Spanish and Cuban ship captains and financiers,
and international merchants created a hidden network based on
forged documents and well-placed bribes. It lasted until 1886 and
ensnared hundred of thousands of slaves smuggled from Africa to the
Caribbean, mostly to Cuba, and tens of thousands of slaves who were
smuggled from Cuba to the United States. Zeuske reveals these
secrets for the first time and offers a new historical framework
for our understanding of the Amistad story.
Simon Bolivar has been for two hundred years a political idol of
and symbolic figure for both left and right politicians. The author
examines the real historical figure, as well as the dimensions of
the myth around him.
For centuries, social and economic relations within the
Atlantic space were dominated by slavery and the transatlantic
slave trade. However, when the trade ended, slave labor in America
was replaced, by other forms of coerced labor. This book focuses on
the transformation of societies after the slave trade and slavery.
It combines micro- and macro-historical approaches and looks at the
agency of slaves, missionaries, abolitionists, state officials,
seamen, and soldiers.
The 1839 Amistad revolt and the fate of the African slaves on board
are well documented in books and in a blockbuster film. Michael
Zeuske adds a new dimension to this history: the story of the
people behind the Amistad. Based on his discovery-in previously
unknown collections in Cuba and Spain-of the captain's logbook, the
cook's notes, and the merchants' ledgers and correspondence, he
paints an eye-opening portrait of the slave trade between Africa
and the Spanish Caribbean. After the British Empire abolished the
slave trade in 1808 and enforced the ban with warships, slave
traders in Africa, Spanish and Cuban ship captains and financiers,
and international merchants created a hidden network based on
forged documents and well-placed bribes. It lasted until 1886 and
ensnared hundred of thousands of slaves smuggled from Africa to the
Caribbean, mostly to Cuba, and tens of thousands of slaves who were
smuggled from Cuba to the United States. Zeuske reveals these
secrets for the first time and offers a new historical framework
for our understanding of the Amistad story.
All over Latin America, and especially in the Venezuela of Hugo
Chavez, Latin America's liberator, Simon Bolivar, is a political
idol and symbol of that continent's new political self-confidence.
The legends about him remain alive and have been the basis for many
political speeches, plays, and fictional works. Michael Zeuske, one
of the world's leading experts on Bolivar, examines the dimensions
of the Bolivar cult and myths and compares these with the real
historical person, and the world in which he lived. Zeuske's
account corrects major inaccuracies in the historical texts, such
as the legendary meeting between Alexander von Humboldt and
Bolivar, which never actually took place.
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of
indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap,
disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' - mainly Asian
labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian
Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the
Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of
the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured
contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded
labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and
'free' wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses
historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour
relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab
Gulf States today.
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