| Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States, 1750-1850 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Bonazza, Giulia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030013480 ISBN-13: 9783030013486 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy - History | Africa - General - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 306.360 |
| Series: Italian and Italian American Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.24 lbs) 227 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states. Documenting previously unstudied cases of slavery in six Italian cities--Naples, Caserta, Rome, Palermo, Livorno and Genoa--Giulia Bonazza investigates why slavery survived into the middle of the nineteenth century, even as the abolitionist debate raged internationally and most states had abolished it. She contextualizes these cases of residual slavery from 1750-1850, focusing on two juridical and political watersheds: after the Napoleonic period, when the Italian states (with the exception of the Papal States) adopted constitutions outlawing slavery; and after the Congress of Vienna, when diplomatic relations between the Italian states, France and Great Britain intensified and slavery was condemned in terms that covered only the Atlantic slave trade. By excavating the lives of men and women who remained in slavery after abolition, this book sheds new light on the broader Mediterranean and transatlantic dimensions of slavery in the Italian states. |