From South Asia to Mexico, from slave to spiritual icon, this woman’s life is a snapshot of Spain’s colonization – and the Pacific slave trade history that books ofte…

Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the ...
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A tale of two plantations : slave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia / Richard S. Dunn

Prologue -- Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane ...
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The incredible journey of two princes from Mozambique whose lives were upended by the slave trade

Lindsay O'Neill received funding from the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, the Huntington Library, and the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. USC Dornsife College of Letters, ...
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The slave-trade mentality in modern employment

By Samuel Jekeli Although the legal institution of slavery was abolished long ago, its mentality has not been completely erased from modern workplaces. In many societies today, a troubling attitude ...