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		<title>The Slaves&#8217; Gamble</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Gene Allen Smith who works at Texas Christian University and is a curator at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History wrote an interesting book on the impact of war on early nineteenth century slavery at the Antebellum American South. In this book Allen Smith is trying to explore the possibilities for social mobility among the slaves and freedmen. Specifically, the author focuses on the American wars against the British, the Spanish and various Indian tribes as well as the role the slaves played in them. From the evidence it becomes clear that especially the British promised freedom to the slaves in order to join their military ranks. Despite the substantial advantages on offer only very few thousand decided to take the risk of joining the army. The reason the author states is fear that they would be caught by their masters and they would be punished as a result. The hypothesis seems to be plausible. The book is not only well written but it would keep you interest alight for many evenings. There is just one point that I would like to bring to Gene Allen Smith&#8217;s attention. Another reason for not joining the military may have been the racial discrimination that the ex slaves would have faced in their new lives as freedmen due to their black skin. Since they could never be fully integrated into the &#8216;society of the free&#8217; they may have chosen to remain in their current servile status that also provided some safety from the perils of war.]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous emotions in slavery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[constantinakatsari]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently co-organised with Kostas Vlassopoulos a conference in Nottingham under the auspices of ISOS, the well known international centre for the study of slavery. The topic of the conference was Sex and Slavery and it included papers from all periods and geographical areas; it was meant to be comparative (both diachronically and geographically). The discussion was especially fruitful also because the respondents brought sometimes radically opposing viewpoints. Unlike other conferences of this type, surprisingly, we did not focus on the Evils of Slavery to society. We did not explore the destructive forces that this peculiar institution holds for the people who are involved. Instead, most papers analysed the variety of relationships between masters and slaves and the mosaic of emotions that arose within them. We came to the conclusion that not all of these relationships were based on violence and not all of them included perverse feelings of hate. Although we acknowledged that slavery breeds relationships based on power rather than love, there must have been some positive exceptions to the rule. I have been wondering why did the participants of the conference focused on the exceptions and not to the rule? Why did positive rather than negative emotions seemed to be so important? It seems to me than in certain cases the debate is overwhelmingly dominated by feelings of guilty and regret. The guilt, felt especially in the United States, sometimes overpowers discussions of slavery and sex. The result is a monolithic treatment of the topic that does not allow for the existence of a multitude of emotions, relationships, situations and outcomes. As historians, I believe, that we are obliged to acknowledge the exceptional cases and the patterns they create no matter how politically incorrect they seem to be. The Nottingham conference and its unlikely results indicated that we may be moving to a new research era in slavery studies.]]></description>
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		<title>The African slave trade drawings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was writing an article on slaves, sex and money, when I came across the following drawings. These were drafted in 1788 by abolitionists in the US with the intention to draw attention to the inhumanity of the slave trade. They depict the Brooks ship that regularly transfered slaves from Africa to Liverpool. The trade has finally been abolished in 1808 to the advantage of the American master class. It looks like, after this date, slave prices have risen sharply, thus increasing the wealth of plantation masters. In addition, once importing slaves from Africa became difficult (not impossible), they decided to focus on breeding them at home. For more information and photos take a look here http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670325/infographic-the-slave-ship-chart-that-kindled-the-abolitionist-movement]]></description>
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		<title>Comparative slavery studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[constantinakatsari]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute for the Study of Slavery (ISOS) just published the latest book of the series. Highly recommended to all comparative historians of slavery!   Stephen Hodkinson &#38; Dick Geary (eds.), Slaves and Religions in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Modern Brazil , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, July 2012 (ISBN: 978-1-4438-3736-1): http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Slaves-and-Religions-in-Graeco-Roman-Antiquity-and-Modern-Brazil1-4438-3736-9.htm]]></description>
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		<title>Sensitive Topics in Ancient History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably already know, I am teaching a third year module on Roman and American Slavery in Leicester. This year, and for the first time, I decided to encourage my students to contribute to a collective blog http://romanandamericanslavery.wordpress.com . Only then, it became obvious that they were intensely preoccupied more with issues of racism than with the generic topic of slavery. I suspect that the reason for such a preference is the fact that they have had no direct experience with slavery, while racism remains endemic across modern societies. Their views, as they are published in the blog, are not only interesting in an academic way but they also reveal a great sense of underlying guilt. As I have to teach such a sensitive topic, the following advertisement caught my attention. “&#8221;Teaching Difficult Subjects in the Classics Classroom&#8221; An APA Workshop, organized by Susanna Braund and Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz We propose a workshop with 5 brief presentations (10 minutes) on particular situations, with materials to help faculty in the classroom. This workshop would follow up on the very successful roundtable and workshop on teaching rape at the 2008 and 2009 APA meetings; we would like to broaden the discussion out at this time. Ancient texts raise a variety of issues&#8211;slavery, infanticide, adoption, abortion, rape, abuse, incest, sexuality&#8211;that may be difficult to discuss in a classroom where some students will have had personal experiences that might make them uncomfortable. Please send anonymous abstracts to Susanna Braund by March 1. Abstracts should follow APA guidelines. Contact Prof. Rabinowitz at (nrabinow@hamilton.edu), for more information.” Classics list I wish I could participate but due to the economic crisis it seems that my research (and personal) budget is non existent. In any case, I will wait eagerly for the results of the meeting. As I do not know how to face the guilt of my students, I will be grateful for any advice you would like to give me.]]></description>
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