Author: Jean Allain
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004158618
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Establishing the drafting history of the 1926 and 1956 Slavery Conventions, this book sets out the legal parameters of slavery and provides insights into the legal obligations undertaken by States as they were understood at the time of negotiation.
The Slavery Conventions
Author: Jean Allain
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004158618
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Establishing the drafting history of the 1926 and 1956 Slavery Conventions, this book sets out the legal parameters of slavery and provides insights into the legal obligations undertaken by States as they were understood at the time of negotiation.
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004158618
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Establishing the drafting history of the 1926 and 1956 Slavery Conventions, this book sets out the legal parameters of slavery and provides insights into the legal obligations undertaken by States as they were understood at the time of negotiation.
The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law
Author: Jenny S. Martinez
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195391624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195391624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.
Trafficking in Human Beings
Author: Silvia Scarpa
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199541906
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199541906
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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.
Slavery in International Law
Author: Jean Allain
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004186956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Slavery in International Law sets out the law related to slavery and lesser servitudes, including forced labour and debt bondage; thus developing an overall understanding of the term human ‘exploitation’, which is at the heart of the definition of trafficking.
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004186956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Slavery in International Law sets out the law related to slavery and lesser servitudes, including forced labour and debt bondage; thus developing an overall understanding of the term human ‘exploitation’, which is at the heart of the definition of trafficking.
Transformations in Slavery
Author: Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139502778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history. The book corrects the accepted interpretation that African slavery was mild and resulted in the slaves' assimilation. Instead, slaves were used extensively in production, although the exploitation methods and the relationships to world markets differed from those in the Americas. Nevertheless, slavery in Africa, like slavery in the Americas, developed from its position on the periphery of capitalist Europe. This new edition revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139502778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history. The book corrects the accepted interpretation that African slavery was mild and resulted in the slaves' assimilation. Instead, slaves were used extensively in production, although the exploitation methods and the relationships to world markets differed from those in the Americas. Nevertheless, slavery in Africa, like slavery in the Americas, developed from its position on the periphery of capitalist Europe. This new edition revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography.
The Colored Conventions Movement
Author: P. Gabrielle Foreman
Publisher: John Hope Franklin African
ISBN: 9781469654263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism"--
Publisher: John Hope Franklin African
ISBN: 9781469654263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism"--
Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society
Author: American Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The African-American Mosaic
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--
The President on Trial
Author: Sharon Weill
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198858620
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
This book details and contextualizes the trial of Hissène Habré, who was prosecuted by a court in Senegal for his role in atrocities committed against Chadian citizens during the 1980s. It employs an innovative combination of first-person accounts from direct actors and academic analysis from leading experts on international criminal justice.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198858620
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
This book details and contextualizes the trial of Hissène Habré, who was prosecuted by a court in Senegal for his role in atrocities committed against Chadian citizens during the 1980s. It employs an innovative combination of first-person accounts from direct actors and academic analysis from leading experts on international criminal justice.
The Legal Understanding of Slavery
Author: Jean Allain
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191645354
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised." So reads the legal definition of slavery agreed by the League of Nations in 1926. Further enshrined in law during international negotiations in 1956 and 1998, this definition has been interpreted in different ways by the international courts in the intervening years. What can be considered slavery? Should forced labour be considered slavery? Debt-bondage? Child soldiering? Or forced marriage? This book explores the limits of how slavery is understood in law. It shows how the definition of slavery in law and the contemporary understanding of slavery has continually evolved and continues to be contentious. It traces the evolution of concepts of slavery, from Roman law through the Middle Ages, the 18th and 19th centuries, up to the modern day manifestations, including manifestations of forced labour and trafficking in persons, and considers how the 1926 definition can distinguish slavery from lesser servitudes. Together the contributors have put together a set of guidelines intended to clarify the law where slavery is concerned. The Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery, reproduced here for the first time, takes their shared understanding of both the past and present to project a consistent interpretation of the legal definition of slavery for the future.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191645354
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised." So reads the legal definition of slavery agreed by the League of Nations in 1926. Further enshrined in law during international negotiations in 1956 and 1998, this definition has been interpreted in different ways by the international courts in the intervening years. What can be considered slavery? Should forced labour be considered slavery? Debt-bondage? Child soldiering? Or forced marriage? This book explores the limits of how slavery is understood in law. It shows how the definition of slavery in law and the contemporary understanding of slavery has continually evolved and continues to be contentious. It traces the evolution of concepts of slavery, from Roman law through the Middle Ages, the 18th and 19th centuries, up to the modern day manifestations, including manifestations of forced labour and trafficking in persons, and considers how the 1926 definition can distinguish slavery from lesser servitudes. Together the contributors have put together a set of guidelines intended to clarify the law where slavery is concerned. The Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery, reproduced here for the first time, takes their shared understanding of both the past and present to project a consistent interpretation of the legal definition of slavery for the future.