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“martin Klein Has Brought Together Recent Work On The Abolition Of Slavery, From Ottoman Turkey To Thailand And From South India To West Africa. This Anthology Builds On The Recent Scholarship On Both Slavery In Asia And Africa And The End Of Slavery As A World-wide Historical Phenomenon. Whereas Other Anthologies Have Tended To Focus On Either Africa Or Asia, This Project Brings Together In One Volume Case Studies And Methodological Approaches Concerning Both Regions. Breaking The Chains Will Be An Important Part Of The Relatively Sparse Literature On Emancipation In Comparative And Global Context.”—richard Roberts, Stanford University Because The American History Of Slavery And Emancipation Tends To Be Foremost In Western Minds, Few Realize That Traditional Forms Of Servitude Still Exist In A Variety Of Places Around The World: Children Are Sold On The Streets Of Bangkok, Bondage Persists In India Despite Official Efforts To Abolish It, And Until 1980 Slavery Was Legal In Mauritania. Breaking The Chains Deals With Emancipation In African And Asian Societies Which Were Either Colonized Or Came Under The Domination Of European Powers In The Nineteenth Century. In These Societies, E
- Author
- Martin A. Klein
- Publisher
- Madison: University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780299137502
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Social Science
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