The ambivalence of promoting a humanitarian value (About a penny token commemorating in Arabic the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807)
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21 mars 2018
- doi: 10.4000/books.etnograficapress.511
- isbn: 9789899717923
- eisbn: 9791036511226
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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colonialismo pós-colonialismo antropologia histórica história da África história da antropologia histoire de l'anthropologie histoire de l'Afrique anthropologie historique colonialisme postcolonialisme Sociology & Anthropology SOC022000 JFCASujets proches
Standard of value Social theory Slave keeping Antislavery Enslavement Slaveholding Servitude Ownership of slaves Mui tsai Abolition of slavery Thralldom Slave system Inscription Epigraphy Epigraphs (Inscriptions) Ambivalency Weight and measurement diskCiter ce document
Adel Y. Sidarus, « The ambivalence of promoting a humanitarian value (About a penny token commemorating in Arabic the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807) », Etnográfica Press, ID : 10.4000/books.etnograficapress.511
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Among the coins to be found in the private collection of Maria Cristina Neto (Lisbon) there is a bronze medal with a bilingual English and Arabic legend, which commemorates the Abolition of Slavery in 1807. With a diameter of 36 mm, a thickness of 2 mm and a weight of 16,90 grams, the disk has a perforation on its upper border. This hole, which is not original, has damaged the underlying part of the low-relief image and inscription. We do not know if the hole was designed to enable one to ins...