Slavery

Lindsay Massara and Michelle McKinley

Chapter 44 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 537-548 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: We are TWAIL scholars of slavery, empire, emergency, gender, race, and property who are committed to narrative and to reconstructing the lives of ordinary women whose historical footprint is barely visible in the official record. We offer a meditation on narrative, speculative history, microhistory and the TWAIL analytical toolkit to study slavery, abolition, and enslaved people. First, we provide a conventional overview of the canonical approaches of international law to the slave trade and abolition. Then, we review the TWAIL scholarship on slavery and international law with a particular focus on racial capitalism, anti-slavery treaties, and labor activism, alongside contingent and multiple approaches to the study of power, agency, legal mobilization, and subaltern histories. We conclude with suggestions for future modes of inquiry that incorporate narrative, speculative history, and microhistory within the TWAIL repertoire of agency and resistance.

Keywords: Slavery; Microhistory; Speculative history; Narrative; Methodology; TWAIL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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