Slavery - Science topic

ABSTRACT Aim of the study: The study aims to draw attention to the challenges that modern slavery presents to SCM and technical practices of textile businesses in the UK and around the world. In addition to providing some management solutions, the study will attempt to understand the causes of the challenges that Modern Slavery in supply chain prac...

Classical liberalism tends to respond to the criticism of any voluntary market contract by promoting a wider choice of options and increased information and bargaining power so that no one would seem to be 'forced' or 'tricked' into an 'unconscionable' contract. Hence, at first glance, the strict logic of the classical liberal freedom-of-contract p...

Background Rates of preterm birth, low birth weight, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) admissions continue to rise in the United States (US). Social determinants of health (SDOH) are recognized as significant contributors to infant and maternal health, underscoring the need for use of research frameworks that incorporate SDOH concepts. The Re...

Prior to the abolition of slavery, the colonial administration of Saint Barthélemy instituted a system of convict labor for convicts of minor crimes, intended to institute labor discipline as well as reducing the cost of clearing up public lots. In accordance with this system, a person who could not pay their fine would have it converted to convict...

Purpose This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework linking exemplar anti-modern slavery practices and their anticipated desirable and undesirable power consequences for social value creation within business relationships and broader networks. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts a conceptual approach to develop a comprehensive fram...

This Article is about the legal framework regarding the donation of human organ and how some countries make it a category of mordern slavery and the case deputy senate president of nigeria Ike Ekoromado

Historians of capitalism have put monopoly corporations and slavery at the heart of the history of a political-economic system long mythologized as founded on free markets. Liberal political economic theory, presupposing and demanding a private economic realm free from state intervention that would drive world-historical progress, was partly a reac...

This chapter examines Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016) and Edward P. Jones’s The Known World (2003). By applying an emotion-race-space framework to the two neo-slave narratives, it provides a reading of fear and hope in the context of historical and ongoing forms of race, geography, and power. While the runaway journey of Whitehea...

Previous research has characterized those resisting slavery as quite atypical of the enslaved population: most of them being young, male, and engaged in particular occupations. In this article, we study transgressive behavior among an enslaved population quantitatively. We employ a unique census from the Caribbean island of St. Croix in 1846, which...

This article analyzes contemporary literary representations of the Middle Passage and their role in shaping Black Atlantic identity and memory. Through a comparative reading of novels including The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson, Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall, and A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan, the study shows how the Middle P...

This introduction outlines the thematic scope of the special issue, which explores slavery as both a historical reality and a cultural metaphor. It examines how slavery has been foundational to modernity, economically, socially, and ideologically, while remaining ideologically obscured through narratives of civilization and progress. The issue trac...

Although Africa is endowed with rich human and natural resources, it is arguably the poorest continent in the world. Blessed with a diversity of rich cultural heritage and tradition, it is bedeviled by a lost identity and existential integrity. This is not unconnected with its experiences of colonisation, slavery, racism, and western imperial domin...

This article examines the intersection between forced labour, supply chain risks and environmental, social and governance concerns that pose a threat to the ‘Just Transition’. It addresses how states, businesses and other stakeholders drive or fail Just Transitions and why. Through an application of a ‘policy currents framework’ to the case study o...

This article examines various perspectives and narratives regarding the commemoration of slavery among African communities, both in the context of constructing a local identity and in creating a tourist product for African-American citizens of the United States. As African history becomes increasingly ‘Americanised’, slavery memorials in Africa are...

This paper explores the deconstruction of the body and the rationalization of commodification through a post-Marxist framework in Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows duology, contending that the commodification process cultivates alienation and perpetuates social inequality. Drawing on Christopher Hermann's theory of commodification and Margaret Jane Radi...

L’esclavage transnational est un phénomène de plus en plus répandu dans l’économie mondialisée actuelle. Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, les travaux de recherche se sont principalement penchés sur le trafic sexuel et les femmes qui en sont victimes, de sorte qu’il y a un important manque à gagner dans la recherche sur les besoins des victimes de ce phénomène,...

This article examines the philosophy of common sense abolitionism in the thought of John Witherspoon and James Beattie. It explores the timely question of how Witherspoon reconciled his moral philosophy with his complex relationship to slavery. Witherspoon baptised a runaway slave, taught anti-slavery sentiments in his course of lectures on moral p...

The history of America is profoundly linked to White supremacy, the belief in the White people's supremacy over those of other races. African American literature often reflects the racial hierarchy of the 19th-century United States and its slavery system and representing a point of discrimination between Black and White populations. Uncle Tom's Cab...

This comparative book review explores the concept of monstrosity in Hunt-Kennedy’s Between Fitness and Death (2020) and Nicholas’ Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body (2018). This analysis contrasts how Black bodies, seen as congenitally disabled and ‘enfreaked’ bodies exhibited in sideshows, are discursively framed in monstrous term...

On March 1, 2007, Japan's Prime Minister Abe Shinzo denied the comfort women. Technically, Abe denied Japanese governmental responsibility for the forced coercion of women and girls into the system of sexual slavery that involved an estimated 80,000 to 200,000 victims from throughout Asia, particularly Korea and China. Looked at in starkest relief,...

Most impartial observers of the China-Japan imbroglio over tiny islands claimed by both in the East China Sea—known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diaoyu—believe it has reached a dangerous point. The importance of the dispute is essentially two-fold. First, historical memory counts heavily in China-Japan relations. Despite their wide and deep...

“It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and so willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.”

Human beings as metaphysical reality and social creatures have propensity as good agents in the observable universe. But also, till date, are the main (in)direct cause of utter evil to self and connected others; like no other! Therefore, generally, the natural default reality of any human connected existence is always constant battle between good a...

Over the last few decades, there has been extensive research on various atrocities committed by the Japanese Imperial Forces in China and various parts of Southeast Asia during the Asia-Pacific War: massacres, torture, rape, sexual slavery, and ill-treatment of prisoners of war (POWs) and medical experiments on prisoners. As a result, we now have c...

Modern slavery laws are increasingly being adopted by countries, requiring companies to demonstrate human rights due diligence. Attempts at quantifying modern slavery across the world have played a crucial role in awareness raising, and locally rich data have been used to provide insights into supply chains for specific sectors and regions but is t...

The hypertextualization of scripture as the sole legitimate source of divine communication (receiving and hearing from the divine) has dominated the scholarship even long before the invention of religious studies as a field of intellectual and academic inquiry, to otherize differences and to create taxonomies that exoticize people of non-European d...

[Japan Focus Introduction: The world has little noted nor long remembered the multinational character of atomic bomb victims including Americans of Japanese ancestry, Chinese, and, by far the largest group, Koreans. Many of the tens of thousands of Korean hibakusha were forced laborers conscripted during the war to work in mines and factories of Ja...

In his personal narrative Atomic Quest, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Arthur Holly Compton, who directed atomic research at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory during the Second World War, tells of receiving an urgent visit from J. Robert Oppenheimer while vacationing in Michigan during the summer of 1942. Oppenheimer and the brain...

Prime Minister Aso Taro's admission that his family company employed prisoner-of-war labor during the final months of World War II may one day be seen as a milestone in Japan's struggle to contend with its own national history. In response to persistent questioning by an opposition lawmaker on the floor of the national parliament on January 6, Aso...

The new Abe administration in Japan plans to re-examine the 1993 Kono statement in which Chief Cabinet Secretary Kono Yohei, apologized and admitted the Japanese government's responsibility for the comfort station operations. If it proceeds with this plan, the Abe government is likely to whitewash or revoke the Kono statement, which has been the co...

On March 29, 2007, members of the Japan Acton Network for the ‘Comfort Woman’ Issue, accompanied by three Diet representatives, visited the Cabinet Office to submit letters of protest against Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's series of statements denying Japanese governmental involvement in coercing the comfort women into the military's wartime system of...

All indigenous and diaspora people of African descent are encouraged to form and develop links of solidarity through the global movement known as pan-Africanism. The movement has a significant support base among the African diaspora in the Americas and Europe and is based on a shared objective that dates back to the Atlantic slave trade. Pan-Africa...

This paper re-examines the British workhouse within the framework of racial capitalism and the Atlantic world. Traditionally understood as a domestic mechanism for managing poverty and labour in an era of industrial capitalism, we argue the workhouse was deeply intertwined with global systems of racial exploitation and accumulation from the sevente...

Antonio Pedrozo de Albuquerque foi proclamado na segunda metade do século XIX “Primeiro capitalista do Norte do Império” do Brasil. Ele, que havia feito fortuna no tráfico transatlântico, entre outras atividades, lícitas e ilícitas, faleceu em 1878, deixando bens avaliados no valor de mais de quatro mil contos de réis e, pelo menos, 560 escravizado...

In early western accounts, Russia was distinctly oppressive, a state characterized by tyranny, barbarism, and Mongolian influence. But these accounts were faulty. They were written by merchants, diplomats, and explorers, wealthy white men who had never experienced the repression they witnessed in Russia. When Black Americans looked to Russia, howev...

Scottish Enlightenment discussions of historical advancement influenced Thomas Jefferson. Ironically, they complemented his tendency to connect Scottishness with foreignness. That connection underscored the common cause of American independence, including with respect to institutions such as racial slavery. Slavery was said to have remained in the...

American literature has a long history and many forms of expression. However, racial and cultural differences are one of the more important topics. The United States is vast and populated. Different races and cultures merged here to create America’s diverse cultural landscape. In this multicultural context, racial issues and cultural diversity in A...

Objectives This cross‐sectional study presents socioecological, epidemiological aspects, and the seroprevalence of immunoglobulin G (IgG) against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) in a group of quilombola (afro‐derived) communities in the states of Pará and Tocantins, in the Brazilian Amazon, to evaluate the impact of SAR...

This article examines Kant's moral philosophy alongside Biblical and theological perspectives on modern slavery as a consequence of human sin and the fall. Using a phenomenological qualitative approach in a literature study, the author analyzes the root causes of slavery—poverty, low education levels, and weak law enforcement—and explores Christian...

For scholars who study the history of slavery in the United States, the claim that slave plantations functioned like schools is controversial but hardly original. However, it can be challenging to find a similar level of interest, inquiry, or evidence to corroborate this claim in the scholarship and textbooks of many contemporary historians in the...

The paper argues that the Atlantic Slave Trade inspired technological innovations in shipbuilding. The influence of the Slave Trade on technological development is explored through the concept of the 'slave ship', a unique form of maritime technology that was modeled specifically to promote the interests of the slave traders. The paper demonstrates...

The current paper is part of the IQUIBEQ Project, a prospective cohort of older adults living in rural communities of Northeast Brazil, officially recognized as "quilombolas," an ethnic group of descendants of former slavery refugees of the 19th century. The manuscript investigates the association of social participation and cognitive status. Main...

Enslavement of African Americans and the legacy of structural racism have led to disproportionate hardship for black people in the USA. Reparations realize unfulflled promises of fnancial compensation and redress. Existing US reparations initiatives have not yet included fnancial transfers or investments in black families or children, which a s...

Objectives An Inclusion Health movement has gained momentum over the past decade, aiming to address the extreme health inequities faced by socially excluded groups (including people experiencing homelessness, problem substance use, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, vulnerable migrants, sex workers, people in contact with the justice system and...

This chapter analyzes work-related mobilities by placing different scales of mobility and immobility at the center of analysis. The readings first concentrate on two historical novels, Wilfried N’Sondé’s Un Océan, deux mers, trois continents (2018) and Emmanuel Dongala’s La Sonate à Bridgetower (Sonata Mulattica) (2017), which frame the Afroeuropea...

The paper engages trauma as an unrepresented phenomenon in the classic model; hence, it tries to illustrate the pervasive impact it exerts on literary criticism and cultural discourse. Grounding on Cathy Caruth's notion of trauma as an unreceived experience that surfaces and haunts the survivor, the paper identifies intricacies surrounding the dyna...

Forced marriage was criminalised in Australia in 2013 and is considered a form of modern slavery and, less consistently, of family violence. Reports to date indicate that family members, particularly parents, are commonly responsible for coercing their children into marriage. Within a criminal framework, families are perpetrators, but this framing...

It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little previous evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture, with levels of wealth inequality not necessarily higher than in non-slave societies. Our study contributes to the literature by studying wealth distribution and by estimating the fir...

Within the United Kingdom’s system for identifying survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking, survivors coming from overseas account for nearly 75%. This data indicates that many survivors are separated from family in the process of trafficking, yet little is known about the impact this separation has on them and their families. This articl...

With a comparative and critical vision, we read two classic texts in criminology, carceral studies, and abolition geography: Gilmore’s seminal work Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007), which focuses on mass incarceration, political economy, and abolition geography using a critical Marxist theoreti...

In this modern era, the practice of slavery in various forms can be found in multiple places in the world, including in Raja Prailiu Village, Sumba Timur, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia. This practice has been carried out by the Maramba (nobles) against the Ata (servants). This causes injustice and discrimination for the Ata people, who even experi...

يناقش البحث الحالي أحد أكثر المشاكل التي يعاني منها السود( أصحاب البشرة السوداء ) في الولايات المتحدة للتواجد المزدوج للماضي (من خلال الذاكرة)، والحاضر، اللذان من خلالهما، تتجلى حقائق الهجرة والعنصرية في رواية الجذور للكاتب أليكس هيلي. فمن خلال توظيف الذاكرة التي تعيد إنتاج الماضي بمآسيه، استطاع الروائي “الكس هالي ” أن يدين الممارسات الاستعمارية، ف...

RESUMO O trabalho doméstico é uma das ocupações mais antigas e significativas no Brasil, tendo suas raízes expandidas durante o período de escravidão, quando era executado principalmente pela população negra. Após a abolição da escravatura, o trabalho doméstico continuou a ser uma importante via de acesso ao mercado de trabalho para muitas pessoas,...

In Freewater (2022) by Amina Luqman-Dawson, alternating narrative perspectives enable the reader to experience characters’ thoughts and actions for making freedom in the maroon community of Freewater in the Great Dismal Swamp. This multivoiced historical novel with nine focalizing narrators in third person point of view advances children’s literatu...

This paper explores the insidious function of cultural hegemony in sustaining caste-based domination within Indian society, specifically in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger. The study examines how consent, coercion and ideological dominance normalize systematic exploitation and uphold long-standing caste and class hierarchies using Antonio Gramsci’s...

When wealthy widow Judith Stuyvesant died in her seventh decade of life, she left a will passing down her possessions to her descendants. Judith Stuyvesant’s 1684 will exposes the fraught connections between family, race, property, and power in colonial New Netherland. Her life intersected with diverse women, and her legacy was shaped by their live...

The Historical Database of Suriname and the Caribbean (HDSC) is a network of historians and archivists in the Dutch Caribbean, Suriname and the Netherlands who work together with the aim to create open access databases of the population of Suriname and the (Dutch) Caribbean between 1830 and 1950, both for public and scholarly use. The so-called sla...

The zombie myth has changed greatly over the decades, from its origins in Haitian Voodoo, where it symbolized spiritual enslavement and colonialism, to its current status as a global icon of terror in popular culture. However, there is little psychological research examining the dynamics of this change. Most research dismisses the role those uncons...

This essay critically examines the African civilizational continuity of the Black Church, challenging the dominant Eurocentric narrative that situates it as a syncretic byproduct of enslavement rather than as an extension of African spiritual agency. Using an Afrocentric methodological framework, the study reinterprets W. E. B. Du Bois’s historiogr...

The Human Dilemma is an interdisciplinary essay that explores the paradoxes of human consciousness, morality, and social evolution. Drawing from philosophy, psychology, sociology, and history, I examine what distinguishes humans from other animals—not just our intelligence, but our ability to question our existence, evolve our moral frameworks, and...

Comfort women" refers to the system of sexual slavery created and controlled by the Imperial Japanese government between 1932 and 1945. It is the largest case of government-sponsored human trafficking and sexual slavery in modern history. Many scholars have argued that the term comfort women, a euphemism coined by the Japanese military, obscures th...

We open this book with acknowledgment. We think and do where we are. The unsettling of pretended universality's of particular ethnies generating knowledge out of and from factitious privileged spaces-places of enunciation begins by taking seriously how one thinks and does from where they are. As with scholars who have come before us (Arturo Escobar...

Building on Frantz Fanon’s sociogeny, this work argues that Blackness is not ontological; instead, it is sociogenetic. That is, race has been ontologized by Whites, via slavery and White supremacist ideologies, and reified by Blacks through their embrace of the othering terms by which they were discriminated against as their practical consciousness...

Close reading of documents produced by the early courts in New South Wales show two young men, formerly barristers at the Northern Assizes, innovating in their court rooms. Such innovation derived from their merchant background rather than the traditions of mercy or paternalism of the Assizes. In such innovations colonial agents were empowered and...

This paper explores the implications of statues and public monuments associated with colonial legacies in the context of societal change, particularly in light of the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the death of George Floy in the US in 2020. It focuses on the case of the toppling of Edward Colston's statue in Bristol, England, and its subse...

The question of whether enslaved Black Africans in Saint-Domingue (modern Haiti) should be considered "colonists" and whether reparations were owed to France and white slaveholders after their liberation requires a nuanced analysis of historical, legal, and philosophical contexts.

This article examines the various strategies employed by both enslaved individuals and freed slaves to establish their own economy and utilize their generated wealth during the first half of the 19th century. It specifically focuses on some coastal regions of Bahia, where the economies were primarily geared towards producing subsistence foods. By l...

This article examines the various strategies employed by both enslaved individuals and freed slaves to establish their own economy and utilize their generated wealth during the first half of the 19th century. It specifically focuses on some coastal regions of Bahia, where the economies were primarily geared towards producing subsistence foods. By l...

The reshaping of global production through platform capitalism has been the subject of numerous studies around the world. Across these, it has been common to observe similar characteristics of this model of management and labour control via algorithmic management. However, it is important to look at the particular facets of each context in the proc...

This paper examines the indocility of slaves in the fight against slavery. It re-establishes slave insurgency in the Caribbean as a key precursor for the promulgation of the Acts of Emancipation by European nations in the 19th century. The slave revolution in Haiti and insurgencies generally in other states were significant precipitators of the lib...

This article proposes a close reading of Rivers Solomon’s 2019 novella The Deep, a recent eco-story about water, memory, and survival. Solomon’s work is inspired by a song called “The Deep” from experimental hip-hop group clipping, a dark science fiction tale about the underwater-dwelling descendants of African women thrown off slave ships during t...

Over the past few decades, the “turn to empire” in political theory has powerfully illuminated how legacies of imperialism and colonialism have profoundly shaped the conceptual history of core categories in modern political thought such as democracy, citizenship, freedom, equality, and the social contract. Early on, scholars in this vein of researc...

Apr 10, 2025 #Podcast #LMSL #LifeManagementScienceLabs Watch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH8BGx4ZfGw As the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine. So, this week on Sero Boost: The Happiness Science Insights Podcast, host Lu Ngo interviews philosophy professor Dr. Chris A. Kramer to learn about what we can apply to our daily liv...

Recent reports from 2023 and 2024 have brought to light alarming instances of healthcare professionals in China being involved in commercial surrogacy arrangements. These cases reveal the dual roles these professionals play: active facilitation, which includes actions such as selling fraudulent birth certificates that contribute to baby trafficking...

Twelve Years a Slave is an autobiographical novel written by Solomon Northup, a freeman from the North, after being abducted and sold to a southern plantation as a slave for Twelve years. In the book, slave owners discipline black slaves by using various means of physical punishment. Most of the black slaves were forced to submit, but a few were st...

The Invention of Wings is an American semi-biographical novel by Sue Monk Kidd. The story sheds light on the physical and mental torment enslaved people experience. Through African American criticism, this research discusses how the novel portrays the wickedness of slavery institutions and the efforts toward liberation undertaken by black character...

This research paper explores how Afro-futurism and speculative fiction intersect in Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women (2009), restructuring traditional African narratives and representations of African slavery. Although the novel is regarded as exemplary in its historical materialism, this paper contends that James uses supernatural elements an...

This study explores how the formation and characteristics of the sociodemographic structure of Vila Rica during the first third of the 18th century, marked by profound imbalances and the zenith of gold mining, fostered a sufficiently flexible relational universe sufficiently flexible to allow a minority yet significant portion of the enslaved popul...

Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive (2023) by Parisa Vaziri offers an in-depth exploration of the intersection of Blackness and slavery within Iranian historical and cinematic contexts. The book critically examines how Iranian cinema portrays African enslavement and marginalized narratives, particularly through fīlmf...

This study explores how the formation and characteristics of the sociodemographic structure of Vila Rica during the first third of the 18th century, marked by profound imbalances and the zenith of gold mining, fostered a sufficiently flexible relational universe sufficiently flexible to allow a minority yet significant portion of the enslaved popul...

When the word "gender" is spoken, most people immediately associate it with women, attempting to comprehend gender roles that have been established, particularly for women, and how they affect growth. For African development to occur, both men and women must fulfill genders are appropriately valued, each playing their part, and neither discrimin...

To cite this article: MagShamhráin, R 2024, 'Care-full academia: From autoethnographic narratives to political manifestos for collective action', Access: Critical explorations of equity in higher education, Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 29-47. * r.magshamhrain@ucc.ie Building on sociolinguistic analyses of the speech-act of coming out in relation to sexual...

La esclavitud sexual infantil representa una de las formas más extremas de violencia infantil, que deja cicatrices profundas tanto físicas como psíquicas en las víctimas. Este artículo aborda las consecuencias psicológicas del abuso sexual infantil desde una perspectiva psicoanalítica, explorando cómo los eventos traumáticos se inscriben en el apar...

This opening chapter investigates spiritual harms of inhumanity and opportunities for healing through the lens of Ubuntu. It is structured into three parts. Part One traces the history of transatlantic slavery, and critically examines the controversial role of Christianity in legitimizing racialized rhetoric and condoning practices of brutality. Th...

This is not a report. It is a warning. The White Vein: A Dystopian Tale of Lithium, Slavery, and the Green Lie is a speculative fiction built on the architecture of reality—where verifiable events, emerging technologies, and plausible policies are woven into a narrative that mirrors the future we are already building. As the global transition towar...

This paper focuses on the representation of sexual violence in the neo-slave narratives of Margaret Walker, Octavia E. Butler and Toni Morrison. Through an exploration of mind-modelling in three key scenes, a range of linguistic techniques are employed to elucidate the psychological component of such violence. Each of the three authors examined her...

Since 2017, Germany, Norway and France all passed or began to implement some form of Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence (mHRDD) reporting for businesses. MHRDD legislation intends to hold businesses accountable for failing to identify and act upon actual and potential risks to workers within their own operation and within their supply chains. The...

This article explores James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" is one of the best examples of how African-Americans are sandwiched between two warring ideas-double-consciousness. This essay examines the story through Du Bois' theoretical framework of do uble-consciousness. His theory is an idea of being one person with two identities owing to th...

Lors des premiers siècles du commerce des esclaves, le « Sénégal » a fourni les effectifs initiaux d’approvisionnement démographique du continent américain sur la base d’une reconfiguration des rapports de forces intérieures. La multiplicité des guerres et les destructions qu’elles ont entrainé rendaient familier le spectre de l’indigence. Pour se...

This chapter presents how the Keti Koti Table approach can be used toexplore the potential of personal dialogue to heal the deep emotional andrelational wounds caused by the shared legacy of slavery. This dialogue-basedritual was developed by the authors to foster mutual understanding and empathyamong individuals of different backgrounds, addressin...

This doctoral paper explores how Caribbean theology, exemplified in Bob Marley's reggae music and Rastafarian worldview, intersects with the Epistle of James to advocate for justice, equity, and equal rights. Written circa 45-60 CE to a Jewish-Christian diaspora, James' economic critique (James 5:1-6) and ethical imperatives (James 2:14-26) resonat...

Background Human trafficking and extreme exploitation ("modern slavery") violate fundamental human rights and cause severe harm to individuals' well-being. Anti-trafficking helplines provide critical support for victims/survivors, yet little research has explored their usage patterns, particularly during crises. This study examines how the Covid-19...

Early African novels were based on slavery, colonization and firmly fixed on patriarchal system which gave women no chance to showcase their potentials and claim their rights in the family and wider society. At a certain point a wave of feminist writing could not be contained in the African literary landscape and a core male chauvinist novelist as...

The hugely discrepant valuations of the alterities of opera and racial slavery – differing additionally between the period under consideration and our own – would seem to preclude their being addressed in the same article. The former has been lauded as the ne plus ultra of human artistic expression. The latter was embraced as an essential economic...

O presente artigo visa refletir sobre as contribuições de sujeitos invisibilizados pela historiografia tradicional, mas que desempenharam papeis relevantes na educação popular e no processo abolicionista brasileiro, por meio da trajetória de José Agostinho dos Reis. Durante as últimas décadas do século XIX, a educação e a abolição passaram a ser de...

This paper explores the role of entrepreneurship skills and student self-reliance programmes in combating modern day slavery in Nigeria. While the concept of modern day slavery is not new, current estimates suggest that Nigeria might be the destination for a large portion of the world’s modern day slaves. This paper examines the dynamics of entrepr...