...Thavolia Glymph As W. E. B. Du Bois famously posited in Black Reconstruction in America (1935), the Civil War witnessed a massive slave rebellion. The “general strike,” as Du Bois called it, involved directly the flight of hundreds of thousands of slaves and the resistance mounted by those who...

..., determined to change US policy toward Sudan. One of the signature activities of the Sudan movement was the practice of “slave redemption,” in which activists purchased people who had been abducted by northern militias, bringing them back to their villages in southern Sudan. Overall, the conflict in Sudan was...

... only as a black body. This is the objecthood that Fanon experiences as fixing him in the white gaze, and preempting him as an individual subject. Thus Fanon sees in the Lordship and Bondage (or master and slave) relation of G. W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology the life-endangering, yet life-affirming risk...

... thus be recognized as part and parcel of a long black radical tradition that stretches back to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction , the text that initially opened up consideration of slave women’s breeding as “work” and of slave women’s protest against reproduction in bondage as an expression of...

...Simon Morgan Wortham In Frantz Fanon’s “The Negro and Recognition,” the Hegelian theme of mutual recognition as the origin of man’s self-consciousness and potential freedom is tested against the complex circumstances to which colonialism leads. Here, Fanon’s idea that the “Negro slave” is...

...Verónica Gago The article criticizes the way in which the perspective of trafficking employs the label of “slave labor” in Argentine to refer to migrant workers in textile workshops. This label constructs the figure of the migrant as the perfect victim and moralizes migrants’ action, while...

... House lawyers but unknown to international law? How can the innocent prove their innocence? Yet this categorical reconstruction of identity is not unprecedented. To claim a history for these conditions of disfigured personhood and civil incapacity, I summon the cautionary haunt of due process in slave...

... modern world it helped bring into being but whose benefits are controlled and appropriated primarily by Europe and America. This was the catalyst behind the exertions of the voice of the slave and the Pan African Congresses of the early twentieth century to the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah...

... slaves and rank-and-file workers historically and to participants in freedom movements in the 1960s. The results, far from producing organizational victories for Facing Reality, transformed Rawick as a thinker and bespoke a neglected theme of Black Power acting to transform and energize, rather than to...

... . Robinson Armstead L. 2005 . Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press . Scott Rebecca J. 1985 . Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899 . Princeton...

..., Sierra Leone, and Southern Africa—sites repatriated by freed American 1 slaves and intensively settled by Europeans—are mentioned. Similarly, in Hall’s important work...

... forced migration, such as the Middle Passage and the international slave tradeAfrican-American mobility is often The South Atlantic Quarterly...

... Allah called Rap Told both of them To get they hat ‘‘Yall cant be around this slave—master rat ‘‘Hate Good Love Evil Think They God When They the Devil That’s why Everything Turned around! They got the...

... presuppose the rupture of the transatlantic slave trade and the natal alienation and kinlessness of enslave- ment. Put differently, the issues of loss and our identification with the dead are central to both the work of mourning and the political imagination of the 3 African diaspora. And...

... of black political leaders and of ordinary former slaves seeking to breathe substantive meaning into the freedom they had acquired. He made a special effort to locate sources in which the voices of Reconstruction African Americans could be heard. But the centrality of the black experience...

...: Horrific Abuse Driving Migrants to Risk Lives in Mediterranean Crossings .” May 11 . www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/05/libya-horrific-abuse-driving-migrants-to-risk-lives-in-mediterranean-crossings/ . BBC News . 2017 . “ African Migrants Sold in Libya ‘Slave Markets,’ IOM Says .” April...

... saying no? Who are we to say no? The dif- ficulty of the no has been perhaps most succinctly focused by Herbert Mar- cuse in his statement that slaves “have to be free for their liberation so that they are able to become free.” In other words, the slaves can free themselves only insofar as they are...

... choosing, to bow before rulers it had no hand in electing, and to live at the behest of another were the ultimate ideological template from which were crafted the new forms of social living established after the revolution. James asks: “And meanwhile, what of the slaves? They had heard of the...

... flows include the twelve million enslaved Africans brought to feed the plantation machinery during the three long centuries that the slave trade lasted, and the Europeans—British, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portu- guese, and Danish—and white Americans who bought the slaves in Africa, transported them...

... Feeding the Ghosts, a novelistic ac- count of the massacre by drowning of slaves aboard the slave ship Zong, a murder The South Atlantic...