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ISBN: 9781350053571
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Ancient World
Author: A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking
Author: Benjamin N. LawrancePublisher:
ISBN: 1350053937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Empire
Author: A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Pre-Modern Era
Author: CULTURAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE AGE OF DISCOVERY.
Author: A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Global Conflict
Author: Human Trafficking in Medieval Europe
Author: Christopher PaolellaPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048551552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Human trafficking has become a global concern over the last 20 years, but its violence has terrorized and traumatized its victims and survivors for millennia. This study examines the deep history of human trafficking from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. It traces the evolution of trafficking patterns: the growth and decline of trafficking routes, the ever-changing relationships between traffickers and authorities, and it examines the underlying causes that lead to vulnerability and thus to exploitation. As the reader will discover, the conditions that lead to human trafficking in the modern world, such as poverty, attitudes of entitlement, corruption, and violence, have a long and storied past. When we understand that past, we can better anticipate human trafficking's future, and then we are better able to fight it.
Slavery
Author: Page DuBoisPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755614267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French concept of 'liberte, egalite, fraternite'; and both ideas incarnate a notion of freedom as inalienable human right that in the modern world we expect to take for granted. In the ancient world, by contrast, the concepts of freedom and equality had little purchase. Athenians, Spartans and Romans all possessed slaves or helots (unfree bondsmen), and society was unequal at every stratum. Why, then, if modern society abominates slavery, does what antiquity thought about serfdom matter today? Page duBois shows that slavery, far from being extinct, is alive and well in the contemporary era. Slaves are associated not just with the Colosseum of ancient Rome but also with Californian labour factories and south Asian sweatshops, while young women and children appear increasingly vulnerable to sexual trafficking. Applying such modern experiences of bondage (economic or sexual) to slavery in antiquity, the author explores the writings on the subject of Aristotle, Plautus, Terence and Aristophanes. She also examines the case of Spartacus, famous leader of a Roman slave rebellion, and relates ancient notions of liberation to the all-too-common immigrant experience of enslavement to a globalized world of rampant corporatism and exploitative capitalism.
The Legacy of Racism for Children
Author: Margaret C. StevensonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190056746
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy is the first volume to review the intersecting implications of psychology, public policy, and law with the goal of understanding and ending the challenges facing racial minority youth in America today. Proceeding roughly from causes to consequences - from early life experiences to adolescent and teen experiences - each chapter focuses on a different domain, explains the laws and policies that create or exacerbate racial disparity in that domain, reviews relevant psychological research and its implications for those laws or policies, and calls for next steps. Chapter authors examine how race and ethnicity intersect with child maltreatment (including child sex trafficking, corporal punishment, and memory for and disclosures of abuse), child dependency court decisions, custody and adoption, familial incarceration, the "school to prison pipeline," police/youth interactions, jurors' perceptions of child and adolescent victims and defendants, and U.S. immigration law and policy"--
The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern
Author: W. O. BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
This book is intended for general reading, and may also serve as a book of reference. It is an attempt to compile and present in one volume the historical records of slavery in ancient and modern times- the laws of Greecs and Rome and the legislation of England and America upon the subject- and to exhibit some of its effects upon the destinies of nations.