Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States, 1750-1850

• Main Author: Bonazza, Giulia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
• Subjects: Italy-History.; Africa-History.; World history.; Imperialism.; Labor-History.; History of Italy.; African History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Labor History.

This volume offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states. Documenting previously unstudied cases of slavery in six Italian cities-Naples, Caserta, Rome, Palermo, Livorno and Genoa-Giulia Bonazza investigates why slavery survived into the middle of the nineteenth century, even as the ab...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Historiographical Perspectives
• 2. The Reverberations of the Abolitionist Debate in the Italian States
• 3. Forms of Slavery in the Pre-Unitarian Italian States (1750-1850)
• 4. The Memory of Slavery.