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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484612803321

Autore

Bonazza Giulia

Titolo

Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States, 1750–1850 [[electronic resource] /] / by Giulia Bonazza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-01349-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages)

Collana

Italian and Italian American Studies, , 2635-2931

Disciplina

306.3620945

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 abolitionist debate raged internationally and most states had abolished it. She contextualizes these cases of residual slavery from 1750–1850, focusing on two juridical and political watersheds: after the Napoleonic period, when the Italian states (with the exception of the Papal States) adopted constitutions outlawing slavery; and after the Congress of Vienna, when diplomatic relations



between the Italian states, France and Great Britain intensified and slavery was condemned in terms that covered only the Atlantic slave trade. By excavating the lives of men and women who remained in slavery after abolition, this book sheds new light on the broader Mediterranean and transatlantic dimensions of slavery in the Italian states.