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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] “This inhuman trade under the British flag was abhorred throughout Germany”. The alleged absence of German actors in the transatlantic slave trade
DESCRIPTION:The introductory citation was made by the Hamburg ship’s captain Christian August Gottlob Sohst in 1842 before the British Admiralty Court in response to the charge of having smuggled slaves in the Atlantic. It was also printed a few months later, thus reinforcing the image of Germany’s widespread absence from the transatlantic slave trade, an image that is still prevalent today. As late as 1987, Hans Ulrich Wehler emphasized this strongly in the first volume of his “Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte” (esp. p. 53) and thus gave new impetus to this interpretation; an interpretation that had actually already been disproven in important aspects by Hans Pohl and Hermann Kellenbenz in the 1960s and 1970s.
The alleged absence of substantial German participation in the transatlantic slave trade has been explicitly questioned for a good 15 years now. Most recently, several studies, especially by younger historians from the University of Bremen and the European University Viadrina, have refuted the essential elements of this interpretation. Their research shows that actors of the Old Empire from all social strata participated intensively in the profits as well as the more somber sides of the close ties between the New World and Europe that were formed in the Atlantic trade, especially in the 18th century. The panel will present some of the results of these studies and thus aims to contribute to replacing the idea of only marginal participation of German actors in the Atlantic slave trade by the recently conceived paradigm of continental Europe as a “Slavery Hinterland” (Felix Brahm/Eve Rosenhaft (eds.), Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850, Woodbridge 2016).
Der Beitrag “This inhuman trade under the British flag was abhorred throughout Germany”. The alleged absence of German actors in the transatlantic slave trade erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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