Revisiting Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopia

Bonacci, Giulia; Meckelburg, Alexander

doi:10.14321/nortafristud.17.2.0005

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“…108 Abolitionism in Ethiopia developed gradually: some authors see early examples thereof already in the 16 th century, but edicts abolishing the slave trade in the 19 th Century, and slavery itself in 1923, are better studied. 109 The French abolition of 1848 had direct consequences in Africa for Algeria, Senegal (Saint Louis, Gorée, and few fortified posts), Mayotte, La Réunion and the île Maurice. 110 At a local level, small hubs of African abolitionism developed.…”

Section: The Colonial Occupation Of Africa and The Invisibilization O...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Abolitionist Movements

Rossi¹

2023

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History

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Abolitionism succeeded thanks to the struggles of many movements, some genuinely global, others national or local but interconnected at a global level. This article takes a pluralist approach to global abolitionism. Since the late 17th century, the membership, objectives, and strategies of different abolitionist movements have been varied, but they shared the same objective: to impose their understanding of slavery as an aberration that ought to be de-legalized and eventually prohibited worldwide. This article periodizes global abolitionism in three main stages characterized, successively, by the primacy of egalitarianism, imperialism, and internationalism. By the mid-20th century, pro-slavery ideologies were obsolete in Euro-America and had disappeared from official policy globally. They survived in circumscribed contexts in which anti-slavery activists are struggling against the lingering vitality of pro-slavery ideas in the 21st century.

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Section: The Colonial Occupation Of Africa and The Invisibilization O...mentioning

confidence: 99%