DIGITALIZATION OR DIGITAL ECONOMY: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES by L. Ivanovskaya

“…Two different tendencies in the «digitalization» of a social life: one creates real opportunities of historical breakthrough of all mankind to improve its life conditions; the other, dangerous for human being is a possibility of a “cyber slavery”, have been distinguished. Within this context, the tendency of a digital «socialism» and its alternative have been analyzed. …”
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A Constituição Imperial de 1824: Uma breve análise dos aspectos sociais, políticos, econômicos jurídicos by Rossana Teresa Curioni Mergulhão, Bazilio de Alvarenga Coutinho Junior, Elton Fernando Rossini Machado

“…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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Down the River, Out to Sea: Mobility, Immobility, and Creole Identity in New Orleans Regionalist Fiction (1880-1910) by Amy Doherty Mohr

“…I will address both cultural mobility and immobility, focusing on motifs of migration and exile, considering the associations of the sea with slavery (Gilroy) and the hope for a new way of life.…”
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Pedagogical Views and Educational Activities of Ismail Gasprinsky by Мухиддин Хайруддинов

“…Gasprinsky was defending the interests of the Crimean Tatars, Mus- lims and societies living in conditions of colonial slavery. Gasprinsky was one of the most outstanding thinkers of the Turkic world. …”
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Freedom from Discrimination in Health: Evidence & Pathways by Deepak B Sharma

“…In earlier times, the slavery remained the highest forms of discrimination. …”
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Homecomings: Black Women’s Mobility in Early African American Fiction by Anna Pochmara

“…Such representations result in a chaotic aesthetics that successfully depicts the unpredictability of the fate of black families under slavery, and it foregrounds the relationality of the novels’ characters.…”
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Jean-Jacques et Hippolyte, deux commandeurs meneurs de grève, ou comment sonner l’alarme à la sucrerie des Manquets (Saint-Domingue, 1782) by Jean-Louis Donnadieu

“…Studying family papers and plantation estates may be useful to discover new items about the former pro-slavery colonial society in the Americas. For instance, in 1782 on the Manquets sugar estate (in l’Acul, northern Saint-Domingue), a slaves’ strike led by two drivers, Jean-Jacques and Hippolyte, occured. …”
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Daesh’ Atrocities Against Women and Girls and The Necessary Response by Ewelina U. Ochab

“…These included atrocities specifically targeting women and girls, including, rape, sexual abuse, and sexual slavery, and many more. Nonetheless, Daesh fighters are not being prosecuted for such crimes against women and girls and their (few) prosecutions are being conducted for terror-related offences only. …”
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Zagadnienie nawrócenia i pokuty w dziełach Sulpicjusza Sewera by Józef Pochwat

“… 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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Origens da segregação racial no Brasil by Reinaldo José de  Oliveira, Regina Marques de Souza Oliveira

“…The approach follows the historic route of the years 1890 to 1930, marked by major changes in the Brazilian and Latin American scene: in 1888, the abolition of slavery, the following year the proclamation of the Republic and more precisely in the first decades of the twentieth century, the metamorphosis of industrial urban society, focusing in Salvador, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. …”
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The Underground Railroad and the politics of narration in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…The novel’s indictment of pro-slavery laws thereby opens onto a call for the regrounding of American democracy on the principle of higher law. …”
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Biblical literacy and transnational Mayan liberation movements by Roberto Domingo Toledo

“…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):

“… 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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Afrotourism in Brazilian World Heritage sites: challenges and opportunities emphasising a decolonial narrative by Ana Maria Vieira Fernandes, Gabrielle Cifelli

“…This cultural diversity is demonstrated both in its tangible heritage and through the intangible cultural references that express the marks of Afro-Brazilian culture and expose the legacies of slavery in Brazil. Considering the existing narrative reduction in the heritagisation discourses, which frequently highlight the hegemonic colonial heritage, this research seeks to clarify how these Brazilian Heritages are being revealed through Afrotourism from a decolonial narrative, and to what extent local community plays a central role in the challenging process of revelation of the Afro-Brazilian memory and its intangible cultural assets.…”
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‘Whose Gold Is This?’ The Gold of the Dutch Golden Coach by Annemarie de Wildt

“…An exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum (2021-2022) exposed the Golden Coach's complex history along these three layers of interpretation, leading to its transformation from a national symbol to a colonial object and contributing to broader discussions of slavery and colonialism in the Netherlands. Here, the interaction between the immaterial origins of the carriage and its raw materials, such as the gold leaf, will be discussed. …”
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Le revenant dans l’œuvre de Toni Morrison : ou le corps hanté de la mémoire by Vanessa Sylvanise

“…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 by Xiting Qiao

“…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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Non-state actor interference in diplomacy: the American Colonization Society and the U.S. - Liberia relationship (1862-1878) by Barbara FRANCHI

“…Civil War, it shows that this organization maintained an active relationship with Liberia and that it remained influential in the decade that followed the abolition of slavery. The U.S.-Liberia relationship was thus marked by an institutional in-betweenness, the ACS and the U.S. diplomats representing two actors interacting with Liberia. …”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…During a stay with the Woods in London, Prince pushed the door of The Anti-Slavery Society in November 1829. She was then taken under the protection of Thomas Pringle, who would soon edit Prince’s autobiography, typed by a friend of his, Susanna Strickland.In this essay, I try to demonstrate that Prince’s narrative—through Strickland’s mediation—uses rhetoric to transfigure herself, from an animal into a British lady, thus challenging the classic distinction between the savage slave and the civilized European. …”
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At the Meetin’ Tree: Reading, Storytelling, and Transculturation in Daniel Black’s They Tell Me of a Home by Pekka Kilpeläinen

“…The opposite sides of the cultural clash and their respective modes of cultural production are understood as ways of dealing with the cultural memory of slavery and its aftermaths. The Meetin’ Tree, the site of storytelling in Swamp Creek, becomes a transcultural space where these issues are negotiated. …”
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