Book Presentation – Worlds of Slavery

On Friday, 23 February 2024, the book launch of „Worlds of Slavery“, edited by Paulin Ismard, took place at the Stabi, organised by the Friends of the Berlin State Library.

An international team of 70 specialised historians traced the history of slavery for this book: its beginnings in prehistory, its establishment in the ancient civilisations, the invention of the slave trade in ancient Greece, slavery as a matter of course in ancient Rome, how Judaism, Christianity and Islam dealt with slavery, the gradual transition from slavery to other forms of servitude in the European Middle Ages, the revival of the slave trade and slavery with European colonisation in Asia, Africa and America, the great period of the transatlantic slave trade until well into the 19^th century. And they do not leave out slavery in China, Korea or the Islamic world.

The discussion featured the editor Prof Dr Paulin Ismard (University of Aix-Marseille), the author of the foreword Prof Dr Michael Zeuske (Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn), Prof Dr Claudia Jarzebowski (Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn), the coordinator of the translators’ collective Dr Esther von der Osten (FU Berlin) and the publisher Edmund Jakoby (Verlag Jacoby & Stuart). It was chaired by Dr Lars Müller (Stabi).

For further information see:https://shop.jacobystuart.de/shop/item/9783964281722/welten-der-sklaverei#; https://www.jacobystuart.de/buecher-von-jacoby-stuart/neuerscheinungen/welten-der-sklaverei/).

Reviews:

Claudia Jarzebowsky: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14.02.2024, Nr. 38, p. 10 (https://fazarchiv.faz.net/faz-portal/document?uid=FAZ__FD0202402145010646446486).

Suzanne Krause in Andruck – das Magazin für Politische Literatur, 20.12.2021 (zur französischsprachigen Ausgabe) https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/paulin-ismard-hg-les-mondes-de-l-esclavage-une-histoire-compar-e-dlf-f06f2433-100.html