From Slavery to Citizenship

by Ennals, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780470028322
• ISBN10: 0470028327
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-16
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Citizenship is not a spectator sport; it is all about engagement. From Slavery to Citizenship is part of a bigger picture - a development process which will enable us to gain more control over our own lives and to participate in decisions about the future direction of society and the organisations we are involved in.This book is unusual in suggesting that slavery is not a remote historical  phenomenon, but a fundamental component of our present. People have been  slaves in the past and some people are enslaved today.The subject of slavery is highly charged with emotion. From Slavery to Citizenship seeks to facilitate dialogue and to bridge gaps. This is not easy as people have been speaking different languages and working from diverse sets of assumptions. A first step is to listen and to learn from differences.In this book, a single author's voice brings together contributions from major public figures and respected thinkers. Within a rich tapestry of perspectives, there is no single line of argument, or one overall conclusion. There are contributions from Africa, North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe and Asia, and from discourses in work organisation, occupational health, psychiatry and human rights, as well as education.After reading the book, you are unlikely to conclude that all of the contributors have agreed, but you will find that they give you a starting point from which to reflect and begin discussion, as well as the tools to engage in active citizenship.

Author Biography

Richard Ennals is Professor at Kingston Business School, London, where he leads the Centre for Working Life Research. He studied the history of slavery in the USA and at King's College Cambridge, and taught African and Modern World History in Northern Nigeria. He is Chairman of the Council for Education in World Citizenship, and works with the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the UK Work Organisation Network. He has visiting professorial posts in Norway, Sweden and Lithuania. His previous books with Wiley are Star Wars: A Question of Initiative (1986), and Dialogue, Skill and Tacit Knowledge (2006, edited with Bo Göranzon and Maria Hammarén).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. XV
Introduction	p. 1
Preparation	p. 2
Personal Context	p. 5
Work	p. 10
Silences	p. 18
History	p. 21
Communication	p. 27
Nations and Empires	p. 37
Memories of empire	p. 38
Slavery as exclusion	p. 39
Ancient slavery	p. 41
Power	p. 42
The pre-colonial connection between Africa and Europe	p. 43
Slavery	p. 46
Citizenship	p. 48
Triangular trade	p. 49
European participation	p. 49
The legacy	p. 51
West Africans settle across the world	p. 52
USA	p. 53
French and Portuguese empires	p. 54
Why has the transatlantic slave trade been ignored?	p. 55
Vikings and the slave trade	p. 56
The transatlantic slave trade	p. 57
The Trade in People and Ideas	p. 59
Before the European Age of Discovery	p. 60
Religious encounters	p. 60
Medieval Europe and slavery	p. 61
Across the Sahara	p. 62
Portugal moves down West Africa	p. 63
Spanish slave trade	p. 64
The Renaissance of slavery	p. 65
Global slave trade	p. 66
European trade	p. 66
Congo, Angola and Brazil	p. 67
Uniting Spain and Portugal	p. 68
Opposition to slavery	p. 69
Internationalisation	p. 69
William Shakespeare: "The Tempest"	p. 71
Spanish and Dutch rivalry	p. 74
Legal British slave trade	p. 75
European wealth from supplying slaves	p. 76
Slavery and the triangular trade	p. 78
Slavery and Enlightenment	p. 78
Slave trading as business	p. 80
Industrial Revolution	p. 82
Christianity and slavery	p. 84
Conclusion	p. 86
Economic Development	p. 87
Discontinuity	p. 87
The business case	p. 88
The legal situation	p. 89
Private enterprise	p. 91
The British slave trade	p. 94
Trading in human labour	p. 100
Capitalism and slavery	p. 100
Involvement in the Triangular Trade	p. 102
The economic impact of slavery	p. 103
Black plaques	p. 104
Social capital	p. 109
The English Enlightenment	p. 109
Josiah Wedgwood	p. 110
Light from the Lunar Society	p. 112
Arguments on slavery and capitalism	p. 114
Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade	p. 116
Business decisions	p. 118
Public image	p. 120
The British role	p. 120
Social class	p. 121
Industrialisation and underdevelopment	p. 121
Stakeholders	p. 122
Knowledge	p. 123
Citizenship and enlightenment	p. 123
From Henry to Hider	p. 124
Products from slavery	p. 126
Reasons for slavery	p. 128
Emancipation	p. 131
The search for simplicity	p. 131
Empowerment	p. 132
The Lunar Society	p. 133
Class Conflict	p. 134
Morality	p. 136
Democracy	p. 137
Abolition Movement and abolitionists	p. 138
Slaves as pawns	p. 140
Thomas Jefferson	p. 141
George Washington	p. 143
Slaves as family	p. 144
Slave rebellions	p. 144
A colony of citizens	p. 146
Silencing the past	p. 147
The Church of England reflects	p. 151
Abolition Movement and abolitionists	p. 154
Thomas Clarkson	p. 156
William Wilberforce	p. 162
Learning from Wilberforce	p. 164
What was abolished in 1807?	p. 165
Pragmatism	p. 167
Stages of emancipation	p. 169
From abolition to emancipation	p. 169
Property rights	p. 171
Global emancipation	p. 171
Anti-slavery and the working class	p. 172
Parallels	p. 175
Diaspora	p. 179
Summary narrative	p. 180
The diaspora experience	p. 182
Diasporas	p. 185
The New World	p. 186
Integration	p. 187
Cultures of diaspora	p. 188
The role of leadership	p. 190
Toussaint L'Ouverture	p. 191
Lessons from diaspora for the UK	p. 192
Independence	p. 193
Time to listen	p. 194
Reconciliation	p. 195
Global citizens	p. 195
Rendezvous of victory	p. 196
Impulse Text: Citizenship Education in the Light of Pan-Afrikan Resistance to the Maangamizi	p. 197
Control and Participation	p. 205
Slavery as an extreme case	p. 205
Human rights and work organisation	p. 207
The epidemiology of control and participation	p. 211
Society and individuals	p. 213
Tipping point	p. 213
Dialogue	p. 214
Self-determination: control, participation and the workplace	p. 216
Impulse Text: Empowerment	p. 220
Impulse Text: Spice of Life or Kiss of Death?	p. 228
Impulse Text: Enabling	p. 234
Impulse Text: The Ingratitude of it all: A Memory	p. 234
Impulse Text: Current Perspectives on Occupational Stress in Brazil	p. 239
Impulse Text: The Central-Eastern European Health Paradox - why are men more vulnerable in a changing society?	p. 242
Impulse Text: From Marginalization to Participation and Empowerment: the black and minority ethnic mental health workforce in the UK	p. 246
Human Rights	p. 249
Slaves as human beings	p. 250
Towards human rights	p. 251
Human rights and property rights	p. 252
Past and present	p. 254
Impulse Text: Modern Slavery	p. 257
Trafficking in persons	p. 267
Slavery in Brazil	p. 269
Business and human rights	p. 272
Occupational health as a human rights issue	p. 277
Power	p. 279
People and machines	p. 280
Freeing minds	p. 281
An NGO for healthy work	p. 282
Occupational health and equity	p. 284
The future agenda	p. 285
What is to be done?	p. 288
Uniting Nations	p. 291
Beyond the workplace	p. 291
Competition in the slave trade	p. 293
From slavery: colonisation and the scramble for Africa	p. 294
The Belgian Congo	p. 295
Denial	p. 297
League of Nations	p. 298
To citizenship: United Nations	p. 301
Colonial rule	p. 304
Gaining freedom	p. 305
A passage to India	p. 306
European history	p. 308
American history	p. 308
African history	p. 309
International institutions	p. 310
Lingering legacies	p. 310
Culture of peace or war	p. 311
Race against time	p. 311
Uniting the African Diaspora	p. 313
Globalisation and Education	p. 315
Global information technology	p. 315
Networking	p. 316
The Lunar Society	p. 317
Emancipation	p. 318
National memories and histories	p. 319
The history of slavery and the slave trade	p. 320
Globalisation	p. 322
Knowledge work	p. 324
Globalised education	p. 325
Breaking the silences in 2007	p. 327
Citizenship	p. 328
International citizenship	p. 329
The sound of music	p. 330
The orchestration of reflection	p. 331
Replacing finance by health and learning	p. 333
Empowerment: the colonial legacy	p. 334
Confronting the truth	p. 335
What has changed?	p. 336
World citizenship	p. 337
UNESCO	p. 337
International Labour Organisation	p. 339
World Health Organisation	p. 340
International citizenship to end slavery	p. 340
Conclusion	p. 347
World Citizenship	p. 351
From slavery: summary of Chapters 1-9	p. 351
Engagement	p. 354
New debates	p. 355
Breaking the silence	p. 356
Dialogue	p. 357
What is citizenship?	p. 360
Out of Africa	p. 360
Into Europe and the modern world	p. 361
Only connect	p. 362
Model United Nations	p. 365
Participative education	p. 365
Conducting participative sessions	p. 367
Experience centred exercises	p. 368
Classroom strategy	p. 371
Periods	p. 372
Example arguments: by book chapters	p. 373
Nations and empires	p. 373
Trade in people and ideas	p. 374
Economic development	p. 374
Emancipation	p. 375
Diaspora	p. 376
Control and participation	p. 376
Human rights	p. 376
Uniting nations	p. 377
Globalisation and education	p. 377
World citizenship	p. 378
Countries	p. 378
United Nations agencies	p. 386
NGOs	p. 388
Media organisations	p. 389
Method	p. 389
The Model United Nations	p. 389
The resolutions	p. 390
The way forward	p. 391
Bibliography	p. 393
Index	p. 407
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