Dispersion of the Yorùbá to the Americas: A Fatalist Hermeneutics of Orí in the Yorùbá Cosmos – Reading from Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen by Emmanuel Adeniyi

“… Studies in African Diaspora ofen privilege the transatlantic slavery, Columbus’ discovery of the New World, and African cultural codes in the Americas. …”
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Allegorie as argument. Galasiërs 4:21-5:1 in retoriese perspektief by D. F. Tolmie

“…This allegorical exposition is dominated by a metaphorical contrast between two types of sonship, namely sonship characterised by slavery and sonship characterised by spiritual freedom. …”
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Conception of Tatar’s «Yoke» and Relations with the Golden Horde in Russian Public Consciousness of the Period from the Second Half of the 13th until 16th Century by V. N. Rudakov

“…Nevertheless in Old-Russian literature this dependence was presented as «slavery», that allowed scribes to find analogy with the events of biblical history (the period when the peculiar people were in pharaon’s captivity and in Babylonian captivity). …”
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Seeking victims’ perspective on remedy: the case of Brasil Verde Farm’s workers by Regiane Cristina de Oliveira

“…Abstract The awareness that slavery did not disappear with abolition has brought back discussions about dichotomies and tensions that were left unresolved in the context of the abolition. …”
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Timor Zone: Slave Trading Network from the Traditional Era to the Late Nineteenth-Century Dutch Colonial State by Fanada Sholihah, Yety Rochwulaningsih, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono

“…Henceforward, during the Dutch East Indies, the slave trading network continued expanding to Maurits, Réunion, Macau, Mozambique, and Mombasa and several years after the post-prohibition of slavery, leaving Ende Bay as the only centre of the slavery trade.…”
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THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF REVOLT MORALITY IN NURETTİN TOPÇU by Muharrem Hafız

“…In addition, the views of the philosophers whom Topçu considers to be connected with his own philosophical views will be included and the philosophical foundations of the revolt morality, which is based on the concepts of freedom, slavery, ideal of responsibility, thought, belief, faith and revolt will be examined in this work.…”
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Dětství v otroctví pohledem dobových ego-dokumentů by Šárka Bubíková

“… The article introduces the specific kind of American ego-documents – the so-called slave narratives – and uses them to discuss the experience of childhood spent in slavery. It further contrasts the reality of slave childhood with the period’s idealization of childhood as a fragile state of innocence, purity and joyfulness and mentions how this contrast was used by the abolitionist movement. …”
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“Orpheus’ Sermon”: Making a Case for an Antiquer Dickinson by Eric Athenot

“…It seeks to offer Dickinson’s classical references as the expression of a gendered approach to her society’s most crucial issues, namely slavery, war, and the role of women in the public sphere. …”
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A Southern Shakespeare? by Michèle Vignaux

“…Among the causes of this ambivalence is the underlying tension between the democratic ideal of the United States and the association of Shakespeare with the old European feudal order, itself associated by Walt Whitman with slavery in the old South. Hence the idea to explore the North/South dichotomy in the nineteenth-century. …”
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La « lucumisation » des cultes d’origine africaine à Cuba : le cas de Sagua la Grande by Silvina Testa

“…After the abolition of slavery (1886) this religion spread to other parts of the island, and in so doing created a process of « lukumisation » of the other religions of African origin. …”
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Les créoles louisianais défendent la cause du Sud à Paris (1861‑1865) by Salwa Nacouzi

“…Faced with a strong anti‑slavery sentiment, they argued that France’s interest lies in defending the South and its « Latin race » from the aggressions of the Anglo‑Saxon North.…”
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Gone With the Covid – Scarlet in Quarantine: An Interview with Sarah Combs by Sarah Combs, Emmeline Gros

“…Beyond laughter and comic relief, is parody also a conduit of critique, or are certain topics—racism, the legacy of slavery, racial inequalities in epidemics like Covid-19—too serious issues to be parodied? …”
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Polyphonies coloniales by Caroline Déodat

“…., the archives of the slavery and colonial period.…”
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Food for thought: interpreting the parable of the loyal and wise slave in Q 12:42-44 by L. Howes

“…The latter is mainly achieved by taking seriously the parable’s application of the slavery metaphor. It should not come as a surprise that the parable in Q 12:42-44 is all about feeding God’s people. …”
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“Taak prappa” by Kathie Birat

“…David Dabydeen’s collection of poems Slave Song (1984) represents the Guyanese poet’s attempt to compensate for the silence surrounding slavery and the absence of a significant body of poetry in Creole. …”
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Reading Philemon with Onesimus in the postcolony: exploring a postcolonial runaway slave hypothesis by Obusitswe Tiroyabone

“…This article argues that the letter of Philemon and indeed the narrative of slavery must be decolonised. Using the Philemon narrative, this article proposes a postcolonial runaway slave hypothesis that shifts from John Chrysostom’s interpretation and those of many others after him significantly. …”
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Quilombos: the land is life and freedom by Amanda dos Santos Pereira

“… Since Brazil's imperial era, the enslaved Black African population has sought ways to resist the horrors of slavery. Some of these groups were called quilombos, a word originating from the Bantu language, which means camp or fortress. …”
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Jeremiah 34:8-22 - a call for the enactment of distributive justice? by M. D. Terblanche

“…When Jeremiah 34:8-22 is read through the lens of Deuteronomy 15:1-18, it is clear that brotherliness does not tolerate debt slavery. By using Deuteronomy 15:1-18 as a supplementary text to Jeremiah 34:8-22, the author inspires visions of a counter-community, in which the debt slaves should be set free and be enabled to make a fresh start. …”
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De l’Antiquité à la science-fiction : la réinvention de Babylone dans les représentations artistiques occidentales des xxe et xxie siècles by Ariane Aujoulat

“…Studying these changes enables us to understand the surprising iconographic innovations that were the result: technological progress, slavery and totalitarianism, as well as utopias and towers of books are new elements that influence representations of the myth.…”
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Reclaiming our Black bodies: reflections on a portrait of Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman and the destruction of Black bodies by the state by I. D. Mothoagae

“…In this article, I will argue that the use of violence by the colonial, imperial system against Sarah Baartman (Black people) has its origins in colonialism and slavery. I maintain that there is a distinction between “a body” and “the Body”. …”
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