{"product_id":"slavery-power-and-human-dignity-africa-and-the-global-history-of-bondage","title":"Slavery, Power and Human Dignity: Africa and the Global History of Bondage","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: #ffffff; color: #ffffff;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote style=\"font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: #ffffff; color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlavery is often presented as a single story, but its history spans many societies, regions and centuries. \u003cem\u003eSlavery, Power and Human Dignity\u003c\/em\u003e examines systems of bondage across Africa and the wider world, including African institutions, the trans-Saharan, Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Atlantic trades, European colonial expansion, resistance, abolition and enduring legacies. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing carefully on historical records and modern scholarship, Kawsu Jaiteh distinguishes documented evidence from estimates and contested interpretations. The book neither minimises suffering nor turns history into a competition between civilisations. Instead, it asks how power allowed human beings to control, exploit and dehumanise others and how enslaved people resisted, survived and asserted their dignity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccessible, comparative and evidence-led, this book offers readers a broader understanding of slavery’s global history while keeping the human person at the centre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Human Inquiry Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67861467529520,"sku":"9781066985500","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781066985500.jpg?v=1790555136","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/slavery-power-and-human-dignity-africa-and-the-global-history-of-bondage","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}