ABOARD THE HUDIBRAS IN 1786, in the course of a harrowing journey from Africa to America, a popular woman died in slavery. Although she was “universally esteemed” among her fellow captives as an “oracle of literature,” an “orator,” and a “songstress,” she is anonymous to historians because the sailor on the slave ship who described her death, the young William Butterworth, did not record her na...

Through a close examination of the exhibition Afterlives Slavery, which opened on 6 October 2017 at Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, this article interrogates issues and contradictions emerging from thinking through decoloniality – within halls an ethnographic museum located centre former colonial metropole. In recent years, has been engaged process reckoning with its position history empire. To ends...

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...

In his book on Liberalism against Populism, William Riker argued that Lincoln’s success in the 1860 election was the culmination of a long progression of strategic attempts by the Whig coalition of commercial interests to defeat the ‘Jeffersonian-Jacksonian’ Democratic coalition of agrarian populism. Riker adduced Lincoln’s success to his ‘heresthetic’ maneuver to force his competitor, Douglas,...