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Food for thought: interpreting the parable of the loyal and wise slave in Q 12:42-44
Published 2016-06-01“…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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Reading Philemon with Onesimus in the postcolony: exploring a postcolonial runaway slave hypothesis
Published 2016-12-01“…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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Jeremiah 34:8-22 - a call for the enactment of distributive justice?
Published 2016-12-01“…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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Reclaiming our Black bodies: reflections on a portrait of Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman and the destruction of Black bodies by the state
Published 2016-12-01“…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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A Constituição Imperial de 1824: Uma breve análise dos aspectos sociais, políticos, econômicos jurídicos
Published 2011-01-01“…The constitutional development was necessary for Brazil to move forward, and from this perspective, we will study important aspects of theImperial Constitution of 1824, the fi rst constitution in our country soon after the cessation of colonial Brazil, and who translated the strong features of the European elite, where slavery was still existing. The centralization of power at that time answers many questions about the Constitution currently in force, which reveals more freedom with regard to fundamental rights of citizens, existing in its minimum degree in another letter undemocratic. …”
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Zagadnienie nawrócenia i pokuty w dziełach Sulpicjusza Sewera
Published 2013-07-01“… In his writings, Sulpicius Severus (360–420) urged his readers to repentance, so they would not expose themselves to eternal damnation, and therefore not remain in a state of slavery in this life. When a lawyer from Bordeaux encourages penance, He pays special attention to the fact that sin calls for the right punishment. …”
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Biblical literacy and transnational Mayan liberation movements
Published 2009-12-01“…Revisiting the period of Yoruba identity formation and the Yoruba anti-slavery struggle in the 1800s will help illuminate the role of Christianity in contemporary liberation movements. …”
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THE AUTHOR OF JEREMIAH 34:8-22 (LXX 41:8-22):
Published 2019-07-01“… This article addresses the question as to whether the author of Jeremiah 34:8-22 was a voice for the manumitted Judean debt slaves, who were forced back into slavery during a temporary lifting of the siege of Jerusalem during 589-588 B.C.E. …”
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Le revenant dans l’œuvre de Toni Morrison : ou le corps hanté de la mémoire
Published 2016-06-01“…Especially in Beloved, the most famous of her novels, in wich, throughout the ghost figure came back to hunting her mother, appears one of the hardest reality of human history : slavery experience. By fear and distress, one disguised way to build memory and root out old past ghosts, because more than living ones, chained up to their secrets, ghosts have so much things to say, that their simple apparition can shout. …”
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Re-imagining the History of British Abolition: The New Historical Consciousness in Winsome Pinnock’s Rockets and Blue Lights
Published 2024-03-01“…While calling Britain to take responsibility for slavery, the play also explores the critical role of art interpretation in reassessing and reshaping historical narratives.…”
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THE RACIAL FACTOR AND PAN-AFRICANISM IN NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY
Published 2021-11-01“…The paper discovered that, Nigeria as a black nation has displayed a great commitment in the liberation struggles waged against slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism and racist regimes in African continent such as in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia among others. …”
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Akin Ogundiran: The Historian and Archaeologist of Yoruba-Atlantic becomes Chancellor Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Published 2021-12-01“…In my book, The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity and Globalization, I devoted Chapter 10 to his oeuvre, stating in one of the key paragraphs that: 268 Toyin Falola In connecting West Africa to the Atlantic economy, Ogundiran is pointing to what could be characterized as the metabolic rift between supply and demand; African economies were on the supply side of the global division of labor that compelled them to produce for the Atlantic economy and, at the same time, to consume products from external sources. …”
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Excerpts from The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom.
Published 2021-12-01“…Undoubtedly, its depiction of slavery and resistance makes it unrivalled as an eloquent marker of a historical and linguistic age gone by. …”
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Cultural heritage management in Africa : the heritage of the colonized /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Kiriama -- Museums and Heritage in West Africa / El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, Hamady Bocoum, and Augustin Hall -- The Exhibition of the African in Post-colonial Africa: Example from Kenya / David Mbuthia and Purity Kiura -- Heritage Governance in Post- Colonial Africa / Thabo Manetsi -- Legal protection of African cultural heritage in the 21st century and beyond: a prognosis and futures perspective / Ancila Nhamo and Seke Katsamudanga -- The Trouble with Participation: Heritage Places, Politics and Communities in Africa / Albino Jopela -- 'Nothing about Us, Without Us': Heritage, Development and Communities in West Africa / Wazi Apoh & Victoria Ndidi Osuagwu -- Slave Trade, Slavery, and the Politics of Heritage Representation in Africa: Examples from Kenya and Mauritius / Patrick Abungu and Jean Francois Lafleur -- The Indian Ocean and the history of Indenture: The making of "new" nationals and nations / Satyendra Peerthum & Kiran Chuttoo Jankee -- Heritage Management practice in Ethiopia: Is it different? …”
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Editorial
Published 2022-10-01“…Eine ausführliche Rezension gilt einer Quellensammlung zur portugiesischen Rechtsgeschichte, eine andere der Webseite Slavery, Law & Power in the British Empire and Early America (SLP). …”
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