I identify a prevalent but previously unremarked subgenre within contemporary narratives of slavery: metanarratives slavery. Metanarratives slavery emphasize the cultural perspectives through which has been seen, thus making perception as much focus itself. offer preliminary taxonomy by focusing on three works in formats: Kara Walker’s large-scale sculptural installation Fons Americanus (2019),...

Dred Scott, without doubt, is the most controversial case in the history of the United States Supreme Court. Unlike the controversies that surround other decisions of the Court, the controversy surrounding Dred Scott does not turn on if the outcome or Chief Justice Taney’s analysis was wrong, but rather on why the outcome and Chief Justice Taney’s analysis were wrong. This article focuses on th...

Black-Atlantic writer Caryl Phillips portrays slavery as an experience of trauma, death and survival leading to the suppression demand for assertion Black identity. The protagonist Cambridge is liberated resold into plantation slavery; so, his life sealed by Middle Passage which drifts him from shores Guinea Caribbean 19th century. His passage represents Africans’ never-ending trauma that conti...

Many people on both sides of the Atlantic are unaware of the glaring facts of the massive French involvement in the slave trade: that more slaves were brought to the tiny island of Martinique than to all the United States; that in 1789, Saint-Domingue supplied over half of France’s overseas trade and had a slave population of half a million, more than all the other French and British West Indie...

The passage of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act 2018 received bipartisan support and was heralded within both Houses Parliament as a significant step towards addressing complicity in modern slavery. Political discourse surrounding the legislation, however, exhibits profound disconcerting dehistoricisation, emphasising particularities global supply chains contemporary transnational capitalism. own...

We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American South in part trace their origins to slavery’s prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action, and express racial resentment and colder feelings toward blacks...