Abolitionist Decrees in Ethiopia: The Evolution of Anti-Slavery Legal Strategies from Menilek to Haile Selassie, 1889–1942

IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q1 HISTORY
Takele Merid, Alexander Meckelburg
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Slavery and the slave trade were fundamental institutions in Ethiopian history. Their abolition was a protracted process that involved developing, debating, passing, and applying multiple anti-slavery and anti-slave trade edicts and decrees under successive rulers. While slavery existed in various societies that were later integrated in the Abyssinian empire since the second half of the nineteenth century and took different forms based on different legal traditions, this article focuses specifically on the Christian kingdom and its successor empire. It analyzes changes and continuities in legal approaches to slavery and its suppression through consecutive Ethiopian governments starting with a discussion of slavery's regulation in the ancient Christian law code, the Fetha nagast (“The Law of the Kings”). The article then considers how successive Christian emperors developed anti-slavery policies in response to both local and global dynamics.
埃塞俄比亚的废奴法令:从梅尼利克到海尔-塞拉西的反奴隶制法律战略演变,1889-1942 年
奴隶制和奴隶贸易是埃塞俄比亚历史上的基本制度。废除奴隶制和奴隶贸易是一个旷日持久的过程,需要在历代统治者的领导下制定、辩论、通过和实施多项反奴隶制和反奴隶贸易的法令和政令。虽然自 19 世纪下半叶以来,奴隶制存在于后来并入阿比西尼亚帝国的各个社会中,并根据不同的法律传统采取了不同的形式,但本文特别关注基督教王国及其继承帝国。文章分析了埃塞俄比亚历届政府对奴隶制及其镇压的法律态度的变化和延续,首先讨论了古代基督教法典 Fetha nagast(《国王法》)中对奴隶制的规定。然后,文章探讨了历代基督教皇帝是如何根据当地和全球动态制定反奴隶制政策的。
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期刊介绍: Law and History Review (LHR), America"s leading legal history journal, encompasses American, European, and ancient legal history issues. The journal"s purpose is to further research in the fields of the social history of law and the history of legal ideas and institutions. LHR features articles, essays, commentaries by international authorities, and reviews of important books on legal history. American Society for Legal History
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