Of all the attorneys and judges who participated in the long and tortured litigation over the status of Dred Scott and his family, the performance of Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis is the most lavishly praised by most modern commentators. In part, this high esteem reflects a strong commitment to the substantive view that Congress had the power to prohibit slavery in the territories. But, unlik...

Close-kin ownership, to own one’s kin, has been researched from the perspective of emancipatory strategies or economic exploitation, hereby overlooking complexity kinship bonds in slave societies. This paper addresses complexities slavery and analyses close-kin ownership kinship. In process manumission, relationships obligation were created that continued life after slavery. When former-owner e...

Modern slavery—denoting acute exploitation of people for personal or commercial gain—is said to affect nearly 50 million around the globe, making it a global issue that requires coordinated crosssectoral and integrated responses. Some efforts have been made effect, including through an emerging legislative regulation at domestic regional levels. Migrants, in particular those with unsettled stat...

The recent expansion of online genetic-genealogical networks has been hailed as a development that could break racial taboos in the United States by providing irrefutable evidence myriad historical and genetic links—many originating slavery—connecting white black families. These predictions are countered, however, scholarly literature on “white ignorance,” defined an active project works to pre...

Abstract This article offers a Kantian account of dignity violations in the context contemporary migration to western states. It considers three major issues: “modern slavery,” statutory detention, and lack rights engage economic activity. While most accounts emphasize treating people as “mere means,” we point out that this does not capture central issue: “hostile environment” so many migrants ...

The skeletal remains of 17 people buried in the Eaton Ferry Cemetery in northern North Carolina provide a means of examining health and infectious disease experience in the XIX century South. The cemetery appears to contain the remains of African Americans enslaved on the Eaton family estate from approximately 1830-1850, and thus offers a window into the biological impacts of North American sla...

One interesting question in Cuba's history is -Why did Cuba fail to become independent in the early part of the nineteenth century, at the same time as most countries in Latin America? Simple explanations such as slavery, economic conditions at the time or the special relation between Cuba and Spain are not very convincing by themselves. We present a framework recently developed for the analysi...

The uniqueness of the antebellum South continues to challenge the imagination of Americans, who, despite persistent attempts, cannot divert their attention from slavery. Nor should they, for slavery provided the foundation on which the South rose and grew. The master-slave relationship permeated Southern life and influenced relationships among free men. A full history would have to treat the im...

Forced marriage is identified as a serious global challenge, and has recently been linked to modern slavery. In this article we seek understand how slavery, institutions practices similar other forms of exploitation are forced marriage. Innovatively, do through deductive linguistic analysis the world’s largest database survivor narratives.We found that people who marry experience range human ri...