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Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Claiming a Runaway Slave in the Holy Roman Empire: The Case of Samuel Johannes (1754)(2021)This working paper presents research on the practices of coercion faced by enslaved or formerly enslaved individuals in Moravian church settlements in early modern Europe. It analyzes one of the few known cases of a runaway slave in premodern Germany and one of a very small number in which Moravians explicitly claimed authority over a person as a slave within a German principality. It is essentially an experiment asking what a semantic analysis of sources may reveal about forms of coercion at the intersections of Central European German estate-based society, Indian Ocean slavery, and Moravian missionary endeavors—intersections that produced liquid and overlapping forms of coercion and dependency, and therefore present quite daunting challenges to historical analysis.Wissenschaftlicher Artikel338 304 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Ambiguous Passages: Non-Europeans Brought to Europe by the Moravian Brethren during the Eighteenth Century(2019-08)Throughout the 18th century a number of unfree individuals was brought to Europe by members of the Moravian Church. Their places of origin were manifold; they came from the West Indies, from Suriname and Berbice, Western Africa, Greenland, North America, the tsarist Empire, Persia or from the Malabar Coast. Africans and creoles from the Danish Antilles were the most numerous group amongst them. Wherever these persons eventually ended up, be it the principalities of the Holy Roman Empire, in Denmark, England, or the Netherlands, as aliens they remained dependent on those who had brought them there. Their legal and social status was ambiguous; no matter whether they were slaves or freedmen, male or female, adults or children, servants or labourers, fully integrated into the religious and economic community or existing on its periphery. Despite their relative obscurity, the existence of this group of Non-Europeans is indicative of the fact that slavery and slave trade were deeply integrated into European society, reaching into places and situations far removed from the Atlantic basin. Therefore the Moravian Brethren and their congregations were Atlantic hinterlands as well as hinterlands of slavery (Brahm/Rosenhaft 2016) in both a physical and metaphorical sense. The paper examines the various reasons behind the presence of these persons in the Moravian Brethren’s Gemeinorte and discusses the significance of this phenomenon in the context of slavery and dependency in early modern Europe..Wissenschaftlicher Artikel398 313 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, “I Have No Shortage of Moors”: Mission, Representation, and the Elusive Semantics of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Moravian SourcesThe Moravian Brethren–also known as the Moravian Church or the (renewed) Unitas Fratrum–were a radical pietistic community formed in Upper Lusatia in the1720s by the charismatic Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf together with adherents of the old Protestant church of the Bohemian Brethren who had fled from prosecution in their Moravian homeland. Even within the highly dynamic world of early modern Protestantism, the Moravian Church was extraordinary in many ways, not least because of its rapid growth and global expansion. As unlikely as it may seem, for a certain time this religious community emerging from the eastern fringes of the Empire formed a small but remarkable entryway into Germany for enslaved people. Thirty-seven individuals of non-European origin, mostly converts from colonial areas, are documented to have lived in or visited Moravian communal settlements in Germany. Among them were thirteen individuals who evidently or very likely came as slaves or captives, of which twelve were of African or Creole extraction and came to Europe from the West Indies or North America. Others were former slaves or appear to have been in positions of uncategorized but nevertheless significant dependency. The first part of this article briefly introduces the eighteenth-century Moravian stance regarding slavery. The second part investigates Moravian motivations for transferring individuals from colonial slavery contexts to Europe and the representative function assigned to them within Moravian social and spiritual contexts. In the third part, the cases of two enslaved individuals in Germany document how Moravians were willing to claim proprietorial rights rooted in slavery. Analyzing the ambiguous and at times contradictory terminology of these and additional sources, I will explore what they can tell us about perceptions, meanings, and practices involving enslaved individuals in Moravian Germany.Wissenschaftlicher Artikel205 290 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Cenference Report: Negotiating Status and Scope of Action. Interrelations between Slavery and Other Forms of Dependency in Early Modern Europe. University of Bremen, June 15 17, 2017Recent research has assembled extensive evidence of forcibly transported and enslaved persons within Europe, provoking the question to what extent slavery and other forms of bondage and dependency influenced each other. The conference brought together researchers from different parts of Europe and the USA to discuss the ambiguous legal and social status of such persons and the intersections between slavery and other forms of dependency prevalent in early modern Europe like serfdom, war imprisonment, convict labor, domestic servitude, or guardianship.Bericht253 107