{"title":"11 “No German Ship Conducts Slave Trade!” The Public Controversy about German Participation in the Slave Trade during the 1840s","authors":"Sarah Lentz","doi":"10.1515/9783110748833-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428458,"journal":{"name":"Beyond Exceptionalism","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133393733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3 Slavery and Skin: The Native Americans Ocktscha Rinscha and Tuski Stannaki in the Holy Roman Empire, 1722–1734","authors":"C. Koslofsky","doi":"10.1515/9783110748833-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428458,"journal":{"name":"Beyond Exceptionalism","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131878168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Exceptionalism – Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–1850","authors":"R. Mallinckrodt, Sarah Lentz, Josef Köstlbauer","doi":"10.1515/9783110748833-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833-001","url":null,"abstract":"It is too early to speak of a shared history – this was the conclusion offered by Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on October 9, 2020 at a conference on research into the history of German colonialism. The various experiences were so different, the wounds so deep, and the colonizers’ behavior so brutal, she said, that one could not yet speak of “our” shared past. Instead, Owuor urged both sides to investigate their own “shadows” in order to lay a foundation for better mutual understanding. This collaborative volume is intended as a step in that direction. It investigates not the colonial period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rather the long eighteenth century; not the colonial possessions themselves, but the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and its successor states. For a long time, it has been assumed that German-speaking inhabitants of the Empire played only a marginal role in the history of slavery in the Atlantic world. The Prussian colonies were short-lived, and the importance of the Brandenburg African Company (1682–1717) was relatively minor compared to the other slavetrading companies. Consequently, slavery played almost no role in the national histories of the German-speaking peoples. Indeed, the Holy Roman Empire has seemed like the one European power that had no “slave problem” – the one major realm in Europe where Africans could live as free people.","PeriodicalId":428458,"journal":{"name":"Beyond Exceptionalism","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124361786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}