Beyond exceptionalism : : traces of slavery and the slave trade in early modern Germany, 1650-1850 / / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Josef Köstlbauer, Sarah Lentz, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka,; Köstlbauer, Josef, 1976-; Lentz, Sarah, 1974-
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages) :; illustrations

While the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in historiography. This edited volume focuses on practices of enslavement taking place within German territories in the early modern period as well as on the people of African, Asian, and Native American descent caught up in them.

Table of Contents

Beyond exceptionalism -- traces of slavery and the slave trade in early modern Germany, 1650-1850 / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Sarah Lentz, and Josef Köstlbauer -- Germany and the early modern Atlantic world : economic involvement and historiography / Klaus Weber -- Violence, social status, and blackness in early modern Germany : the case of the black trumpeter Christian Real (ca. 1643-after 1674) / Arne Spohr -- Slavery and skin : the Native Americans Ocktscha Rinscha and Tuski Stannaki in the Holy Roman Empire, 1722-1734 / Craig Koslofsky -- "I have no shortage of Moors" : mission, representation, and the elusive semantics of slavery in eighteenth-century Moravian sources / Josef Köstlbauer -- Slavery and the law in eighteenth-century Germany / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt -- From slave purchases to child redemption : a comparison of aristocratic and middle-class recruiting practices for "exotic" staff in Habsburg Austria / Walter Sauer -- Black Hamburg : people of Asian and African descent navigating a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century job market / Annika Bärwald -- Invisible products of slavery : American medicinals and dyestuffs in the Holy Roman Empire / Jutta Wimmler -- An Augsburg pastor's vews on Africans, the slave trade, and slavery : Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Conversations about man (1804) / Mark Häberlein -- "We do not need any slaves, we use oxen and horses" : children's letters from Moravian communities in Central Europe to slaves' children in Suriname (1829) / Jessica Cronshagen -- "No German ship conducts slave trade!" The public controversy about German participation in the slave trade in the 1840s / Sarah Lentz.