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In her new book Suzanne Miers places modern slavery in its historical context, tracing the development of the international anti-slavery movement over the last hundred years, and demonstrating how the problems of eradication seem greater and more intractable today than they had ever been. She shows how and why slavery has expanded to include new forms between 1919 to 2000, many times crueller than the chattel slavery so familiar to the public mind. The author describes the targets of on-going anti-slavery campaigns, including forced labour, forced prostitution, forced marriage, the exploitation of child labour and of migrant and contract labour. She also reveals the extraordinary proliferation of non-governmental organizations such as the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and UN specialized agencies and the lack of political will on the part of member nations to give it powers of enforcement. Miers centres the story on British policy, which has led to efforts to suppress the slave trade since the late 18th century.
She draws upon her extensive work in Africa, which has attracted the greatest humanitarian and international attention, and where in some areas, slavery has been deliberately covered up by the descendants of both slaves and owners. Researchers and readers in world history, slavery, human rights, African and African American history, international relations, and race and ethnic studies should find it a valuable resource.
In her new book Suzanne Miers places modern slavery in its historical context, tracing the development of the international anti-slavery movement over the last hundred years, and demonstrating how the problems of eradication seem greater and more intractable today than they had ever been. She shows how and why slavery has expanded to include new forms between 1919 to 2000, many times crueller than the chattel slavery so familiar to the public mind. The author describes the targets of on-going anti-slavery campaigns, including forced labour, forced prostitution, forced marriage, the exploitation of child labour and of migrant and contract labour. She also reveals the extraordinary proliferation of non-governmental organizations such as the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and UN specialized agencies and the lack of political will on the part of member nations to give it powers of enforcement. Miers centres the story on British policy, which has led to efforts to suppress the slave trade since the late 18th century.
She draws upon her extensive work in Africa, which has attracted the greatest humanitarian and international attention, and where in some areas, slavery has been deliberately covered up by the descendants of both slaves and owners. Researchers and readers in world history, slavery, human rights, African and African American history, international relations, and race and ethnic studies should find it a valuable resource.
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Rise of the British Antislavery Movement Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Forging a Treaty Network Against the Slave Trade Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Emancipation in Theory and Practice Chapter 5 Chapter 4: From Slavery to New Forms of Exploitation Chapter 6 Chapter 5: New International Machinery Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Ethiopia, The League of Nations, and Slavery Chapter 8 Chapter 7: Slavery in Hijaz Chapter 9 Chapter 8: The Temporary Slavery Commission and the Expanding Definition of Slavery Chapter 10 Chapter 9: The Slavery Convention of 1926 Chapter 11 Chapter 10: The International Labor Organization and the Forced Labour Convention Chapter 12 Chapter 11: The League of Nations and Slavery in the British Empire Chapter 13 Chapter 12:The Problems of a Moral Foreign Policy 1925-1932 Chapter 14 Chapter 13: The Committee of Experts on Slavery Chapter 15 Chapter 14: The Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery Chapter 16 Chapter 15: Slavery in a Changing World 1932-39: Ethiopia Chapter 17 Chapter 16: Slavery in a Changing World: 1932-1939: Arabia, The Red Sea and Persian Gulf Chapter 18 Chapter 17: The Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery 1936-1939 Chapter 19 Chapter 18: The Slavery Question from 1939 to 1949 Chapter 20 Chapter 19: The Cold War and the Supplementary Slavery Convention of 1956 Chapter 21 Chapter 20: The End of Slavery in Arabia and the Persian Gulf 1950-1970 Chapter 22 Chapter 21: Slavery at the United Nations 1956-1966 Chapter 23 Chapter 22: The Final Struggle for a United Nations Slavery Commmittee 1966-1974 Chapter 24 Chapter 23: Epilogue: The UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery Chapter 25 Chapter 24: Contemporary Forms of Slavery Chapter 26 Chapter 25: Conclusion: The Anti-Slavery Campaign in the Twentieth Century Chapter 27 Bibliography
Suzanne Miers is Emerita Professor of African History at Ohio University. She has also taught at the Universities of Wisconsin, London, and Malaya (Singapore). She is the author of Britain and the Ending of the Slave Trade and numerous articles. She co-edited with Igor Kopytoff, Slavery in Africa, with Martin Klein, Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa, with Richard Roberts, The End of Slavery in Africa, and with Maria Jaschok, Women and Chinese Patriarchy.
Suzanne Miers writes with conviction—it would be hard to be
impartial about slavery—but this book is a thoughtful, rigorous and
scholarly survey of its subject. The scholarship is impeccable. As
it is, this book will be the standard study of 20th century slavery
and abolition.
*Martin Klein, University of Toronto*
Building on her distinguished record of publications, Suzanne Miers
carefully traces the development of the international antislavery
movement during the last century. She assiduously chronicles the
campaigns of the London-based Anti-Slavery Society (now AntiSlavery
International) within changing systems of international power.
*American Historical Review, June 2004*
Emerita Suzanne Miers of Ohio University has capped her careerlong
interest in slavery with a masterpiece of historical research.
*African Studies Review*
Her willingness to tackle this vast subject, to approach it from a
truly global perspective, and to probe the complex forces that have
shaped national and international responses to slavery and forced
labor make for a work that will be the standard study of
twentieth-century slavery and abolition for many years to come.
Equally important, it will also be a major guide to the problems,
questions, and issues that future research on slavery and forced
labor in the contemporary world will need to explore and
address.
*The Historian*
A major guide to the problems, questions, an dissues that future
research on slavery and forced labor in the contemporary world will
need to explore and address.
*The Historian*
Suzanne Miers is one of the leading authorities on the slave trade
in Africa. This long-awaited book is based on a wide range of
archival sources and is a balanced enquiry into the question of
slavery not only in Africa but in Arabia and the Gulf. It is a fine
work, comprehensive in scope, exact in detail, and illustrative of
one of the great themes in human history.
*Wm Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin*
Slavery in the Twentieth Century is the bridge that links the
extensive scholarship of historical slavery and the growing
literature on contemporary slavery. This an invaluable service and
the foundation for an expanded social and historical discipline of
slavery studies, one that transcends the current focus on slavery
in the anti-bellum American south. . . . As a textbook it was
excellent, well-written, well-organized, and with sections that
could stand alone as needed.
*Journal Of Colonialism and Colonial History*
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