Abolishing Slavery And Its Contemporary Forms

Author : David S. Weissbrodt
Publisher : UN
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211541484

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Abolishing Slavery and Its Contemporary Forms by David S. Weissbrodt Pdf

The right of all individuals to be free from slavery is a basic human right, yet despite a widely held belief to the contrary, slavery in its various forms continues to exist. This report reviews the history and development of international law against slavery and the progress made to combat contemporary forms of slavery and other related practices. It considers forms of slavery such as serfdom, forced labour, debt bondage, migrant workers, trafficking in persons, prostitution, forced marriage and sale of wives, child labour and other issues, as well as discussing the need to improve international monitoring mechanisms.

Author : Joel Quirk
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812205640

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The Anti-Slavery Project by Joel Quirk Pdf

It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were introduced, governments found ways of continuing similar forms of coercion and exploitation, such as forced, bonded, and indentured labor. Every country in the world has now abolished slavery, yet millions of people continue to find themselves subject to contemporary forms of slavery, such as human trafficking, wartime enslavement, and the worst forms of child labor. The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking offers an innovative study in the attempt to understand and eradicate these ongoing human rights abuses. In The Anti-Slavery Project, historian and human rights expert Joel Quirk examines the evolution of political opposition to slavery from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the abolitionist movement in the British Empire, Quirk analyzes the philosophical, economic, and cultural shifts that eventually resulted in the legal abolition of slavery. By viewing the legal abolition of slavery as a cautious first step—rather than the end of the story—he demonstrates that modern anti-slavery activism can be best understood as the latest phase in an evolving response to the historical shortcomings of earlier forms of political activism. By exposing the historical and cultural roots of contemporary slavery, The Anti-Slavery Project presents an original diagnosis of the underlying causes driving one of the most pressing human rights problems in the world today. It offers valuable insights for historians, political scientists, policy makers, and activists seeking to combat slavery in all its forms.

Author : Laura Brace,Julia O'Connell Davidson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319906232

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Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery by Laura Brace,Julia O'Connell Davidson Pdf

Despite growing popular and policy interest in ‘new’ slavery, with contemporary abolitionists calling for action to free an estimated 40 million ‘modern slaves’, interdisciplinary and theoretical dialogue has been largely missing from scholarship on ‘modern slavery’. This edited volume will provide a space to reinvigorate the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binary between slavery and freedom in different historical and political contexts. The book takes a critical approach, interrogating the concept of modern slavery by exploring where it has come from, and its potential for obscuring and foreclosing new understandings. Including contributions from philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, and English literature scholars, it adds to the emerging critique of the concept of ‘modern slavery’ through its focus on the connections between the past of Atlantic World slavery, the present of contemporary groups whose freedoms are heavily restricted (prisoners, child labourers in the Global South, migrant domestic workers, and migrant wives), and the futures envisaged by activists struggling against different elements of the systems of domination that Atlantic World slavery relied upon and spawned. Revisiting Slavery & Antislavery will be of indispensable value to scholars, students, policy makers and activists in the fields of human rights, modern history, international politics, social policy, sociology and global inequality.

Author : David W. Bulla,Karen E. Bravo,Judith N. Onwubiko,Kremena Dimitrova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527593886

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Legacies of Slavery and Contemporary Resistance by David W. Bulla,Karen E. Bravo,Judith N. Onwubiko,Kremena Dimitrova Pdf

Slavery and the past are interconnected; there is a tension between a former time of human subjugation and the time after when that captivity can still be remembered. In a sense, this volume probes this seeming contradiction, the glory of freedom’s release and the tension with a past when freedom was denied. It also argues that the existence of slavery, in modern forms, today offers continuing evidence of man’s inhumanity to man—and the resulting absence of freedom for millions of people.

Author : Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2052 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317471790

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Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World by Junius P. Rodriguez Pdf

The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests - and central themes - of modern history. These movements for freedom have taken many forms, from individual escapes, violent rebellions, and official proclamations to mass organizations, decisive social actions, and major wars. Every emancipation movement - whether in Europe, Africa, or the Americas - has profoundly transformed the country and society in which it existed. This unique A-Z encyclopedia examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources. While it centers on the United States, the set also includes authoritative accounts of emancipation and abolition in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. "The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition" provides definitive coverage of one of the most significant experiences in human history. It features primary source documents, maps, illustrations, cross-references, a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, and specialized indexes in each volume, and covers a wide range of individuals and the major themes and ideas that motivated them to confront and abolish slavery.

Author : Silvia Scarpa
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199541904

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Trafficking in Human Beings by Silvia Scarpa Pdf

This text analyses the various international legal instruments regulating people trafficking including treaties, 'soft law', and the definition contained in the UN Trafficking Protocol, and argues that trafficking in persons ought rightly to be considered a part of jus cogens.

Author : Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0714632600

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Out of Slavery by Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward Pdf

First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Farhad Karim
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1564321541

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Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Pakistan by Farhad Karim Pdf

NATURE OF THE WORK

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1609801032

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Abolition Democracy by Angela Y. Davis Pdf

Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America’s most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as "enemy of the state," and about having been put on the FBI’s "most wanted" list. She talks about the crucial role that international activism played in her case and the case of many other political prisoners. Throughout these interviews, Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions. Discussing the most recent disclosures about the disavowed "chain of command," and the formal reports by the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch denouncing U.S. violation of human rights and the laws of war in Guantánamo, Afghanistan and Iraq, Davis focuses on the underpinnings of prison regimes in the United States.

Author : Julia O'Connell Davidson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137297297

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Modern Slavery by Julia O'Connell Davidson Pdf

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, prisoners, and sex work in the contemporary world in order to challenge popular and policy discourse on modern slavery.

Author : Jenny S. Martinez
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195391626

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The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law by Jenny S. Martinez Pdf

There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this book, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous - few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as this author shows, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.

Author : Mike Kaye,Anti-Slavery International
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 0900918616

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1807-2007 by Mike Kaye,Anti-Slavery International Pdf

Author : James J. Gigantino II
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812290226

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The Ragged Road to Abolition by James J. Gigantino II Pdf

Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth century. This was especially the case in New Jersey, the last northern state to pass an abolition statute, in 1804. Because of the nature of the law, which freed children born to enslaved mothers only after they had served their mother's master for more than two decades, slavery continued in New Jersey through the Civil War. Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 finally destroyed its last vestiges. The Ragged Road to Abolition chronicles the experiences of slaves and free blacks, as well as abolitionists and slaveholders, during slavery's slow northern death. Abolition in New Jersey during the American Revolution was a contested battle, in which constant economic devastation and fears of freed blacks overrunning the state government limited their ability to gain freedom. New Jersey's gradual abolition law kept at least a quarter of the state's black population in some degree of bondage until the 1830s. The sustained presence of slavery limited African American community formation and forced Jersey blacks to structure their households around multiple gradations of freedom while allowing New Jersey slaveholders to participate in the interstate slave trade until the 1850s. Slavery's persistence dulled white understanding of the meaning of black freedom and helped whites to associate "black" with "slave," enabling the further marginalization of New Jersey's growing free black population. By demonstrating how deeply slavery influenced the political, economic, and social life of blacks and whites in New Jersey, this illuminating study shatters the perceived easy dichotomies between North and South or free states and slave states at the onset of the Civil War.

Author : Manisha Sinha
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300182088

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The Slave's Cause by Manisha Sinha Pdf

“Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America.”—Florida Courier Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave’s cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe. “A full history of the men and women who truly made us free.”—Ira Berlin, The New York Times Book Review “A stunning new history of abolitionism . . . [Sinha] plugs abolitionism back into the history of anticapitalist protest.”—The Atlantic “Will deservedly take its place alongside the equally magisterial works of Ira Berlin on slavery and Eric Foner on the Reconstruction Era.”—The Wall Street Journal “A powerfully unfamiliar look at the struggle to end slavery in the United States . . . as multifaceted as the movement it chronicles.”—The Boston Globe

Author : Lawrence C. Jennings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521772495

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French Anti-Slavery by Lawrence C. Jennings Pdf

This book provides a detailed study of French anti-slavery forces in the nineteenth century.