Un succès américain en France : La Case de l’Oncle Tom by Claire PARFAIT

“…This article examines the early publishing history and the reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel in France. French translations of the novel were simultaneously serialized in three different Paris dailies, a highly unusual phenomenon in itself. …”
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States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine by Lee Spinks

“…Beginning from her conviction of the fundamental connection between white supremacist thinking and the enclosure of black life within the social death of slavery, it explores the consequences for both black and white identity of white fantasies of absolute sovereignty. …”
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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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Les approches interculturelles dans le système éducatif brésilien : entre immobilisme et transformations radicales by Abdeljalil Akkari, Camila Pompeu Da Silva

“…First, we try to trace the development of interethnic relations in the country. The heaviness of slavery and colonization will be pointed out. Then, the article addresses recent legislative measures to encourage the inclusion of diversity in education. …”
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Conflitos sociais e afirmação territorial da comunidade quilombola Ilha São Vicente, Araguatins, Tocantins by Ricardo Gilson da Costa Silva, Luciano Laurindo dos Santos, Jorlando Ferreira Rocha, Luziane Laurindo dos Santos, Cristiano Bento da Silva

“…In this work, we intend to analyze the socio-historical processes that formed the remaining quilombo communities, from slavery to community organization on São Vicente Island, their means of collective production in their territory and the contemporary challenges they face. …”
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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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Co-Formations : des spatialités de résistance décoloniales chez les lesbiennes « of color » en France by Paola Bacchetta

“…This article argues that lesbians “of color” in France are creating new decolonial subjectivities and resistant practices, yet these remain unintelligible in the dominant grid of intelligibility because the grid can not account for the inseparability of gender, sexuality, “race”-racism, class, slavery and postslavery, colonialism and postcoloniality.  …”
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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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« Indiens ou Noirs, libres ou esclaves » : travail et métissage en Amazonie portugaise (xviie et xviiie siècles) by Rafael Chambouleyron, Karl Heinz Arenz

“…Scholars argued that African slavery was economically just not possible, due to the settlers’ poverty, and especially the region’s geographical isolation, which hindered the connection of this province with the main trade circuits of the Portuguese empire. …”
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L’effacement des lynchages californiens. La mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images by Pierre Vialle

“…Before being extensively practiced in the Old South after the abolition of slavery, lynching was massively used in the West of the United States causing hundreds of victims. …”
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Rosja Katarzyny II w Zapiskach Louisa Philippe’a de Ségura by Jolanta Kazimierczyk-Kuncer

“…Exposing the delusion of Russia’s civilization progress, “the country of dumb obedience and anarchy” whose nation, superficially absorbing European customs, is still plunged into slavery, he simultaneously revisits “the Russian mirage”.…”
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Corps, couleur et sexualité : plaçage et quarteronnes à la Nouvelle-Orléans au xixe siècle by Nathalie Dessens

“…In plantation societies of the Americas, body and slavery have always been intricately linked. The slave’s body was always in full view, whether in the fields or at the auction block. …”
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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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Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991), le récit d’esclave revisité by Delphine Letort

“…Julie Dash dedicated Daughters of the Dust to the female members of the black community, endeavouring to uncover the secrets of their common history turned into a taboo subject by the silence that enshrouds the issue of femininity at the time of slavery. The film focuses on the Peazant family who are divided on the eve of their migration to the north: some are afraid to see the family spread apart (Nana) while others look forward to a new beginning (Viola, Haagar). …”
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