@article{discovery10135298,
          volume = {10-11},
           month = {August},
       publisher = {L'Harmattan},
            year = {2020},
           title = {From Slavery? Rethinking Slave Descent as an Analytical Category: The Case of the Mauritanian and Moroccan Hratin},
         journal = {L'Ouest Saharien},
            note = {This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.},
           pages = {187--208},
        keywords = {Morocco, Mauritania, ?ar{\=a}{\dt}{\=i}n, slavery, slave descent, identity, emancipation, analytical categories.},
        abstract = {What does it mean, after worldwide legal abolition, to define groups or
individuals as 'slave descendants' ? When slavery was legal, laws and norms
distinguished between slave and free (legal) status and defined relations of
production, reproduction, and property between enslaved persons and their owners.
Today the vernacular terminology that identifies certain African groups as 'slaves'
or 'slave descendants' (e.g. ?ar{\=a}{\dt}{\=i}n, ?ab{\=i}d, etc.) is often an anachronism unrelated to
their economic and political conditions. But in some cases slave origins continue to
affect the everyday lives of people who never ceased to be exploited by the
descendants of slave-owners. This article compares the identitarian, economic, and
political strategies of people classified as slave descendants in Morocco and
Mauritania; it discusses the connection between labels that imply slave ancestry and
the circumstances of the carriers of such labels; and it considers implications for the
analytical terminology of African slavery studies.},
             url = {https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=revue&no=56},
          author = {Rossi, Benedetta}
}