Slavery was not a large part of Venetian culture or Venetian history, but it was a part. There were slaves in Venice for the entire history of the Republic of Venice.
When people in some form of bonded servitude appear in the records — at least in the city of Venice — they were almost always domestic servants.
These are some of the testimonies about slavery in Venice I have found doing other research. In most cases, the stories come from criminal records, but not always.
Frederick Douglass visited Ireland in the decades before the American Civil War, where he met Daniel O'Connell, Ireland's nationalist leader and a vocal critic of slavery. “I am the friend of liberty in every clime, class and colour. My sympathy with distress is not confined within the narrow bounds of my own green island. No — it extends itself to every corner of the earth," O'Connell said at a meeting of his Repeal Association that Douglass attended in September 1845. Here's a look at how his words influenced Douglass's activism: "Agitate, agitate, agitate."
"As we can discern from Plutarch and Appian, beyond the socio-economic impacts, the ancient historians equated the displacement of the family-run smallholdings with the slave-dependent Latifundia with a concurrent moral decline that degraded the Roman Republic."
Le numéro 78/4 des #AnnalesHSS est disponible en ligne (et bientôt dans vos boîtes aux lettres). Au sommaire, 2 dossiers et un train de comptes rendus :
👉 Histoire contemporaines et méthodes interdisciplinaires
👉 Captivité et esclavage
👉 Recensions: race et esclavage
À Carthagène, vivaient des libertinos: esclaves musulmans. déliés de leur maisonnée, mais travaillant pour payer leur liberté. Thomas Glesener et Daniel Hershenzon démêlent avec finesse les conflits de normativités, entre religion, coutume et autorité royale, pour mieux appréhender l'esclavage.