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This article discusses the re-elaboration of trauma through the autobiographical narratives of Françoise Ega and Carolina Maria de Jesus in Le temps des madras (1966) and Quarto de despejo (1986), respectively. The text starts with a brief reflection on the difficulties of genealogical reconstruction operated by the autobiographical writings of black authorship due to the absences experienced by the families of ex-slaved people in tracing their lineages. Based on this observation, linked with the African diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, the article analyzes how the narratives of Françoise Ega and Carolina Maria de Jesus resort to literary fabulation to restructure their genealogical lineages. Thus, it is concluded that literary fiction operates as a resilience factor in confronting the traumas of slavery and its consequences in contemporary times and as an element of rebuilding ancestral lineages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El artículo se centra en la historiografía de la brasileña de 1964, golpe de estado. Diversos temas discutidos incluyen la historia de recuerdos, modernidad en Brasil, la ideología política de la historia de Brasil, país sociohistory, la historia de los movimientos sociales, la esclavitud allí, contemporáneo del trauma de esclavos y matanzas en el país.

The objective of this article is to show that Ovawambo people were in a period of disintegration of Communitarian Society when the Europeans arrived to their territory. However, they keep any characteristics of Primitive Society, example: private property did not appear, matrilineal succession still exist. But, states institutions had emerged. They were headed by ohamba. Classist's differences had emerged too, but they did not signify a factor of social struggles yet. Slavery didn't exist yet. The Ovawambo people practiced an equality distribution of wealth in order to satisfy the requirements of all families. Logically, the aristocratic families had primacy in the distribution of resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research proposal encapsulates the interest from the last two years of a doctorate research project. To begin, it aims to deal with the problems in studying the history of the rights and particularly those related to the recognition of freedom and the access to ownership for the enslaved black community during a specific period. Such interest in history focuses on the significance of the slavery as an institution in the Colombian institutional life for many years -before and after the Independence- with all the aspects implied in the context of such an activity, not only legally but also economically and politically. Regarding the research method, this work is firstly intended as a documentary analysis of primary source references located mostly in two archives. First the Library of the 'Colegio de Misiones de Popayán' with its records from 18th century and second, the 'Blacks and Slaves Catalogue' of the General Archive of the Nation; and secondly, a review of the secondary sources who developed their work based on the primary sources, both in Colombia and abroad. Finally, a major conclusion is drawn that there were some contradictions in the instituting of the slavery during the period stated above. This will enable to break new grounds towards the identification of common threads appearing in the new readings derived from the tensions suggested by this document. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the history of black people in Latin America, particularly a group referred to as cimarrones, Afro-descendants who formed settlements in the Americas. The author comments on the history of slavery in the region and examines the development of quilombos and palenques, villages founded by escaped slaves and cimarrones.

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In an essay the author examines the topics of race and politics in Cuba including the issues of slavery in Cuba and the West Indies in the 19th century. The author discusses the journeys of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and Spanish naturalist Ramón de la Sagra. Other topics include racism and race relations in Cuba.

This article discusses the prevalence of intimate relationships between masters and slaves in the Nuevo Reino de Granada, a region making up modern-day Colombia, during the colonial period, particularly the 18th century. The author comments on the social taboos associated with such relationships and examines the ethnic and cultural history of blacks living in the Americas as a result of slavery.

An essay is presented which analyzes socio-racial values and political action of elites of "broken color" in Jamaica, Venezuela, and the French West Indies during the 18th and 19th centuries. It examines how these factors influenced the political activity of members of this sector, especially during the revolutionary period and the abolitionist era.

The article focuses on the landscape, slavery and environment in the Brazilian coffee economy, with specific reference to the case of Vale Do Paraiba in the 19th century.

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This paper studies the way two USA women writers narrate around historic moments in their country, move these moments in time and space to retell them and then study, analyze, and present them within science fiction conventions (more specifically, "soft" science fiction). The novels analyzed are The Name of the World is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin and Mirror Dance by Lois McMasters Bujold, the first one related to the Vietnam War and the second to USA slavery. Both use hyperbole to narrate these moments and in both, technology is a very secondary element. The paper also analyzes the books within the debate science fiction/fantasy (understood as related to magic and magicians) and describes the author's position within this debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to show how the black slaves were catechized in Cartagena and in the Kingdoms of Kongo and Ngola. In this inquiry the writings of missionaries in Africa from the first half of the seventeenth century were used, in order to go into the way the region was evangelized. These texts were written from a perspective based on observation and under the protection of a catholic euro-centrist speech, which became an important part of the black world literature. This information was compared with the procedures performed by the Jesuit priests Claver and Sandoval in Cartagena de Indias, in order to establish connections between the processes occurred on both sides of the Atlantic and the circulation of the catechetical process and the evangelization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the influence of the Bourbon reforms implemented by the Spanish monarchy on slavery in the colonies of the Caribbean region. The author comments on the drafting of legislation in an attempt to increase slavery in the area, particularly the Ordenanzas de Santo Domingo and the Código Negro Carolino. He also considers the impact of these laws on the slave-owner relationships, traditions, and customs, with a particular focus on Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

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The following article explains the demographic evolution of the Cuban Eastern Department population during the eighteenth century to the limit census of 1862, facilitating the understanding of the most notable features of the eastern population in this period. For its realization was indispensable the analysis of different bibliographic sources related to the subject and the colonial census of the period. The support provided in mathematical statistics facilitated, from this quantitative study, a qualitative understanding of the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El artículo discurre sobre la historia de negros, mulatos y pardos en Veracruz, México, durante el siglo 17. El autor comenta sobre la tradición de esclavitud en México desde principios del periodo colonial en el siglo 16, la cual introdujo una población grande de africanos al país. También se considera el empleo doméstico realizado por muchos de los afromexicanos, pardos y mulatos en Veracruz durante el periodo de tiempo estudiado.

Tracing the history of a family across three generations, from enslavement in eighteenth-century West Africa through emancipation during the Haitian Revolution and subsequent resettlement in New Orleans, then France, then Belgium, can shed light on phenomena that are Atlantic in scope. Together, the experiences of the Vincent/ Tinchant family illuminate an Atlantic and Caribbean rights-consciousness that crossed the usual boundaries of language and citizenship. Uncovering these experiences suggests the value of combining the close focus displayed in Sidney Mintz's Worker in the Cane with the Atlantic approach of his later Sweetness and Power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will focus on the role slaves played in the city of Cartagena de Indias in the seventeenth century. It will also focus on how the city became a slave warehouse and the role they played in shaping this colonial society. Their jobs, dances, sociability and ethnic origin are presented as main characters in the shaping of this city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the daily lives of the slave population in the Nuevo Reino de Granada (New Kingdom of Granada), a group of Spanish colonial provinces, from the 18th to the early 19th centuries. The author describes the control imposed by masters over their slaves' personal lives, particularly relationships and marriages. He also considers the instability within slave communities and families, which were sometimes separated due to trade, manumission, and the general circulation of slaves among masters.

This article considers the influence of the Real Cédula de 1789 (the Royal Decree of 1789) in Venezuela, which sought to regulate and ensure the good treatment and proper education of slaves. The author analyzes the reactions among the white and elite population of Venezuela at the time, who thereafter feared the slave population and viewed the decree as an affront to established social norms. The impact of the royal decree on the eventual uprising that led to Venezuela's independence from Spain is also considered.

This article discusses the migration of Africans to be used as slaves in the Americas beginning in the 16th century and lasting until the mid-19th century. The author analyzes the social conditions faced by these African immigrants and the development of racial tensions during the time period studied. He also examines the geographical distribution of the African population throughout Latin America, citing a database containing information from slave ships. The influence of the influx of African slaves on demography, socioeconomics, and culture through the 20th century is also considered.

This article covers the topics of body, health, and illness in the slaves of the New Kingdom of Granada during the 18th century. It analyzes the main diseases which affected this part of the population as a result of their work in the mines, estates, and as domestic workers. The objective is to show that health and disease were linked to the social and cultural conditions of the urban and rural areas inhabited by slave population, as well as to the way the Spanish Empire handled them politically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes the regional study of the african slavery phenomenon in Chile. The Province of Coquimbo, in this way, shows propitious for the searching of slave trade dynamics, because of the relevant percentages of afrodescendants and slaves recorded in census and others demografic sources. It exposes the lines of this trade, the sold ages and prices, the ocupation spaces and the masters, concluding about the variations in relation with the type of slave presents in the early eigthteenth century, from a black important presence to an extended mulatización toward the end of that century; and an utilization as much of domestic service as agricultural and mining worker in the begining, to an ocupation principaly domestic towards the nineteeth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the slave population of Cadiz, Spain beginning in the mid-17th century. It examines the social conditions faced by the slaves following their integration into Cadiz, including their family life and other personal relationships. The author provides a demographic analysis of the slaves, who came from North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Ottoman Empire. He also compares the slavery situation in the Spanish colonies in the Americas with that of Cadiz. The eventual abolition of slavery in 1812 is also considered.

El artículo presenta un análisis de la revolución de independencia de Haití, con énfasis en la discusión sobre los derechos naturales del hombre en las revoluciones de América Latina. Algunos temas discutidos incluyen la abolición de la esclavitud en Haití, las ideas del jurista español Isidoro de Antillón sobre la esclavitud y la figura del líder de la revolución haitiana Toussaint-Louverture.

El artículo presenta una reimpresión de una disertación pronunciada por el jurista español Isidoro de Antillón en la real academia Matritense de derecho español y público el 2 de abril de 1802 y publicado en Mallorca, España, en 1811. Los temas discutidos incluyen la historia y orígenes de la esclavitud, la defensa de la abolición de la esclavitud en la colonias españolas de América y los derechos naturales del hombre.

This article discusses the various pros and cons of replacing salaried workforce by slaves in large livestock production units of the Río de la Plata at the end of the XVIIIth century and the beginnings of the XIXth. Century. It tries to show that, beyond its convenience at costs level, to form a big group of slaves was an investment of some risk, and represented a significant financial effort. In addition, it involved a rearrangement of organizational production patterns, which were not necessarily simple. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the process of co-constructing the systems of maritime navigation, naval design, and the Atlantic slave trade during the nineteenth century. To do so, it reconstructs the complex relations between actors, artifacts, states, institutions, scientific and technological knowledge, ideologies, and the techno-productive systems involved in this process. From the end of the eighteenth century, the legitimacy of the transatlantic slave trade was increasingly questioned. In 1807, the British government -- representing the county with the greatest participation in the trade at the time -- unilaterally abolished it. Simultaneously, it started actively persecuting slave traders and promoted the abolition of the trade among the countries still involved. In this new scenario, transformations occurred among the heterogeneous elements tied to the slave trade, as well as the kinds and ways of interaction between them. To overcome mono-causal and deterministic explanations of technological development, the theoretical and methodological approach we use is constructivist. This allows us to identify new relations, reconstruct new processes, and generate new explanations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an assessment of the number of slaves in 19th century Cuba based on Spanish and Cuban official census data, British estimations and demographic calculations. The author focuses on the period of Cuban slave emancipation between 1867 and 1886 and considers the relationship with the labor needs of the Cuban sugar industry. He also mentions some of the reason for the earlier ambiguity regarding the number of slaves including the influence of international anti-slavery treaties and the collusion between the Cuban authorities and plantation owners.

The article focuses on the development of the slave plantations in Cuba during the period 1791-1825. The author notes the Cuban effort, beginning in the late 18th century, to replace Haiti in the trans-Atlantic sugar and coffee markets. He considers the ideological and political campaign of Cuban coffee and sugar merchants and plantation owners to maintain the slave trade which provided the plantation workforce. He discusses their legal and political maneuvers against British attempts to pressure the Spanish Empire to outlaw slavery.

There can be no doubt that the study of legislation offers the opportunity to analyse the functioning of slavery in Roman society. However, even jurists point out that the word slave not only includes male but also female slaves. The use of this term -which nowadays can be regarded as sexist- can be problematic when focusing the female slave population since it is not possible to differentiate between both sexes. Nevertheless, terms such as ancilla or serva are sometimes used to establish a difference. Regardless of the apparent homogeneity which characterises the slave class, my research focuses on finding female slave population in one of the biggest legal resources in Roman law, the Digest. My aim is to study the particularities that might have affected female slaves due not only to their belonging to a particular class but also to a particular gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the reforms made to the Virginian penal policy against the slave population from 1800-1860. It compares the theoretical severity of the penal code with its reality, which was often resulted in more lenient penalties. The author studies the commuting of death penalties to deportation sentences for slaves, concluding that death was only reserved for the most serious crimes. This leniency, which, according to the author, was practiced by the slave-owning class as a method of legitimizing their social system of slavery and reducing criticisms from Northerners and abolitionists, is also explored.

The article discusses the historical development of post-colonial black peasantry and rural communities of former slaves in the regions of Grão-Pará and Maranhão, in 19th century Brazil. The author traces the formation of these communities to the 18th century quilombos and mocambos (communities of escaped slaves) and senzalas (housing arrangements provided for slaves by landowners). He also considers the relationship between the black peasantry, local economies and post-emancipation agrarian policies.

This article attempts to capture the characteristics which were held the view that the black and the Indian were in the state and the church, it centers colonial authority, the study focuses on the sources of the city of Santo Domingo between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the prevalence of slavery in Madrid, Spain during the 18th century using historical legal documents and letters regarding the transaction and freedom of slaves. It examines the attempts by many slaves to construct their own identities through these legal documents. The author analyzes the laws and legislation related to slavery in Spain during this time period as well as the impact of freedom on the former slaves' social and legal relationships and the formation of their new identity in society.

This article is an approach to Roberto Burgos Cantor's La ceiba de la memoria from the perspective of writing, understood as written communication, as letter-writing, as a cry, as dialogue, and as the work of a novelist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to determine under what circumstances slaves became eligible for freedom and to track their efforts and strategies to achieve it between 1698 and 1750. This is a period when slavery was widely legitimized in Santiago, Chile. The findings are based on the analysis of seventy two letters of freedom, along with wills written by masters and former slaves. After the crossed analysis of these primary sources the author argues that various emotional, socio-economic and legal impediments gave shape to a rigid institution that allowed a minimum flexibility to obtain liberty. Thus, slaves played an active role in their own manumission processes, negotiating agreements through payment for their freedom or opting for the strategy of manumission trough good behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with one the so many facets of American colonial history, the domestic violence that recovers interest at present, perhaps, and very to our grief because it is a conduct that still lasts in many contexts of the today societies. Through analysis of criminal judgments in which the women were victims of masculine violence, it is considered on the gender asymmetry in a peripheral city in the last years of the colony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]