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My work addresses a persistent problem in African history: the deep history of slavery in the Lower Congo region. While historians acknowledge the importance ...

The historiography of the Kingdom of Kongo has long emphasized the profound political transformations following the Kongolese Civil War, marked by ...

Animals played a central role in the history of transatlantic slavery that has only recently attracted scholarly interest. Of vital importance to plantation ...

The Roma's enslavement in Romania for over 500 years has often been overlooked in discussions about the legacies of slavery and racial discrimination. The ...

What has education to do with dependency? In a famous letter, Jerome (d. 419) narrates that, in a dream vision, he was called before Christ and accused of ...

This lecture explores to what extent one can discern a concept of personal freedom as a basic right in the first century CE. Philo's tractate "On the Freedom ...

How did an alleged sodomy case in 1648 on an English East India Company ship shape social dynamics and attitudes towards homosexuality? Examining the events ...

How did slavery and forced labor coexist in Tahoua? In our next JCMML, Benedetta Rossi will discuss the labor regimes and their implications in this West ...

How did political shifts in southern Babylonia during the third millennium BCE impact land and social status? For most of this period, independent city-states ...

Did the ancient Greek sex trade rely on enslaved labor? This Lecture delves into the link between sexual labor and slavery in Greek comedy and oratory, ...