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ABOLITIONISM AND THE PERSISTENCE OF SLAVERY IN ...

This volume offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states. Documenting previously
unstudied cases of slavery in six Italian cities-Naples  Caserta  Rome  Palermo  Livorno and
Genoa-Giulia Bonazza investigates why slavery survived into the middle of the nineteenth
century  even as the abolitionist debate raged internationally and most states had abolished
it. She contextualizes these cases of residual slavery from 1750-1850  focusing on two
juridical and political watersheds: after the Napoleonic period  when the Italian states (with
the exception of the Papal States) adopted constitutions outlawing slavery  and after the
Congress of Vienna  when diplomatic relations between the Italian states  France and Great
Britain intensified and slavery was condemned in terms that covered only the Atlantic slave
trade. By excavating the lives of men and women who remained in slavery after abolition  this
book sheds new light on the broader Mediterranean and transatlantic dimensions of slavery in
the Italian states.

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