The Case of Adam Jacobsen. Enslavement in 18th-Century Norway

IF 0.7 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Hanne Østhus
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ABSTRACT The article explores the life of Adam Jacobsen, an enslaved man who was trafficked from the Danish West Indies to the small town of Arendal in southern Norway sometime around 1780. By using the micro-spatial perspective the article aims to investigate how Jacobsen and others who were trafficked from America, Africa and Asia to Europe were understood within the broader processes of marketization and racialization that occurred with the development of the Atlantic slave trade. The article examines how these processes were given a localized expression through investigations of different ‘sites’: the geographical places of St. Croix and, primarily, Arendal, and the institutional sites of the household and the interrogation room. In St. Croix, Jacobsen lived in a society constructed around plantation slavery. In Arendal, he was a working member of his owner’s household residing with local servants and a local family, but he was also singled out and often racialized. Jacobsen’s life story, then, demonstrates how colonial slavery extended into Europe in a way that not only concerned capital and goods but also trafficking of people.
亚当·雅各布森案。18世纪挪威的奴隶制
这篇文章探讨了亚当·雅各布森的生活,他是一个奴隶,在1780年左右从丹麦西印度群岛被贩卖到挪威南部的阿伦达尔小镇。通过使用微观空间视角,本文旨在调查如何在大西洋奴隶贸易发展的更广泛的市场化和种族化过程中理解雅各布森和其他从美洲、非洲和亚洲被贩运到欧洲的人。本文通过对不同“地点”的调查,考察了这些过程是如何被赋予本地化表达的:圣克罗伊的地理位置,主要是阿伦达尔,以及家庭和审讯室的机构地点。在圣克罗伊岛,雅各布森生活在一个围绕种植园奴隶制构建的社会中。在阿伦达尔,他是主人家里的一名工人,与当地仆人和当地家庭住在一起,但他也被挑出来,经常被种族化。因此,雅各布森的人生故事证明了殖民奴隶制是如何以一种不仅涉及资本和货物,而且涉及人口贩运的方式扩展到欧洲的。
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期刊介绍: Scandinavian Journal of History presents articles on Scandinavian history and review essays surveying themes in recent Scandinavian historical research. It concentrates on perspectives of national historical particularities and important long-term and short-term developments. The editorial policy gives particular priority to Scandinavian topics and to efforts of placing Scandinavian developments into a larger context. Studies explicitly comparing Scandinavian processes and phenomena to those in other parts of the world are therefore regarded as particularly important. In addition to publishing articles and review essays, the journal includes short book reviews. Review essay proposals and polemical communications are welcomed.
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