key members of the anti-slavery movement. The authors claim that Darwin partly chose to highlight the common descent of man from apes to show that all races were equal as a rebuttal to those who insisted black people were a different, and inferior, species from those with white skin. Desmond and Moore say Darwin attempted early on to show his theory of sexual selection, where traits seen as des...

Abstract In response to critiques of the ‘slavery versus freedom’ binary and its limitations, researchers at international Bonn Center for Dependency Slavery Studies ( BCDSS — www.dependency.uni-bonn.de ) University tentatively employ analytical concept ‘asymmetrical dependency’ in their investigations coercive social relations, such as slavery, debt bondage, servitude. this paper, we discuss s...