Introduction: Exploring Post-Slavery in Contemporary Africa

The legal abolition of slavery restructures the organizational principles in a society on the presumption that human beings should be entitled to all their legal qualities of freedom. Inspired by Stuart Hall in his reflection on postcolonialism, we could define post-slavery as a description of socie...

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Veröffentlicht in:The International journal of African historical studies Jg. 48; H. 2; S. 181 - 192
Hauptverfasser: Lecocq, Baz, Hahonou, Éric Komlavi
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Boston University African Studies Center 01.01.2015
Boston University
Schlagworte:
Abolition of slavery
Emancipation of slaves
Emotional abuse
Horn of Africa
Postcolonialism
Power
Presumption
Slavery
Society
Studies
United States
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Horn of Africa
ISSN:0361-7882, 2326-3016
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Zusammenfassung:The legal abolition of slavery restructures the organizational principles in a society on the presumption that human beings should be entitled to all their legal qualities of freedom. Inspired by Stuart Hall in his reflection on postcolonialism, we could define post-slavery as a description of society in reference to a period (rather than a point) in time after the formal abolition of slavery, when power relations between masters and slaves were being reconfigured, a period that demonstrates continuities with the pre-abolition period.14 We view post-slavery as a new way to define our research agenda and its limits.
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2326-3016