Journée d’études : « Libres et de couleur aux États-Unis, 1776-1860 » by Julie Nouvion

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Slavery and Early Christianity - a reflection from a human rights perspective by P. G. Kirchschlaeger

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Reparative Justice Vis-a Vis the legacy of slavery in the Caribbean. Interregional perspectives by Claudia Rauhut

“…This paper deals with the current demands of compensation for the damages and crimes caused by the transatlantic slave trade of African persons and from the institution of slavery in the Americas. This proposal has been put forward by many actors and in different global historical contexts and it is currently is fundamental issue in the agenda of Afro-American activism, especially in the English- speaking Caribbean and in the United States. …”
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Les créoles louisianais défendent la cause du Sud à Paris (1861‑1865) by Salwa Nacouzi

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Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) : la mémoire de l’esclavage dans la conscience diasporique by Delphine Letort

“…Sankofa is the eighth film made by Ethiopian director Haile Gerima, who has been living in exile in the United States since 1967. Based on an original script, written by the filmmaker himself, Sankofa is a slave narrative which, however, has no historical value since it was developed through creative writing. …”
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L’Atlantique de l’esclavage, 1775‑1860. by Marie-Jeanne Rossignol

“…Although slavery was condemned in France, Britain, and the United States from the 1770s to the 1790s, leaders in all three countries considered that as a first step the international slave trade should be abolished. …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…Restructuring in housing, education, employment, voting, law enforcement, health care, and the environment—social transformation—is absolutely needed in the United States if the race problem is ever to be resolved. …”
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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. …”
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Biblical literacy and transnational Mayan liberation movements by Roberto Domingo Toledo

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