Beschreibung:
The collection combines German perspectives on slavery in the Americas with an investigation of German colonial endeavours in Africa, thereby seeking to interrogate historical processes of empire-building, colonialism, and slavery. The collection demonstrates that they should be regarded as part and parcel of a narrative that ingrained colonialism and slavery in German cultural memory and identity to a larger extent than has been illustrated and admitted so far in general discourses in contemporary Germany. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.
1. German entanglements in transatlantic slavery: An introduction 2. Sugar and slaves: The Augsburg Welser as conquerors of America and colonial foundational myths 3. The right to freedom: Eighteenth-century slave resistance and early Moravian missions in the Danish West Indies and Dutch Suriname 4. Antislavery discourses in nineteenth-century German American women's fiction 5. Strategic tangles: Slavery, colonial policy, and religion in German East Africa, 1885-1918 6. Catholic missionary associations and the saving of African child slaves in nineteenth-century Germany 7. Exploring race and gender in Anna Seghers's "The Reintroduction of Slavery in Guadeloupe"