10 “We Do Not Need Any Slaves; We Use Oxen and Horses”: Children’s Letters from Moravian Communities in Central Europe to Slaves’ Children in Suriname (1829)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Illustrations IX
5. List of Contributors XI
6. Beyond Exceptionalism – Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–1850 XV
7. 1 Germany and the Early Modern Atlantic World: Economic Involvement and Historiography 26
8. 2 Violence, Social Status, and Blackness in Early Modern Germany: The Case of the Black Trumpeter Christian Real (ca. 1643–after 1674) 56
9. 3 Slavery and Skin: The Native Americans Ocktscha Rinscha and Tuski Stannaki in the Holy Roman Empire, 1722–1734 80
10. 4 “I Have No Shortage of Moors”: Mission, Representation, and the Elusive Semantics of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Sources 108
11. 5 Slavery and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Germany 136
12. 6 From Slave Purchases to Child Redemption: A Comparison of Aristocratic and Middle-Class Recruiting Practices for “Exotic” Staff in Habsburg Austria 162
13. 7 Black Hamburg: People of Asian and African Descent Navigating a Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Job Market 188
14. 8 Invisible Products of Slavery: American Medicinals and Dyestuffs in the Holy Roman Empire 214
15. 9 An Augsburg Pastor’s Views on Africans, the Slave Trade, and Slavery: Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm’s Conversations about Man (1804) 238
16. 10 “We Do Not Need Any Slaves; We Use Oxen and Horses”: Children’s Letters from Moravian Communities in Central Europe to Slaves’ Children in Suriname (1829) 264
17. 11 “No German Ship Conducts Slave Trade!” The Public Controversy about German Participation in the Slave Trade during the 1840s 286