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Seeking to Understand the Definition of Slavery*
Abstract
This chapter discusses Article 1 of the 1926 Slavery Convention in order to address the doubt surrounding the interpretation the provisions of slavery. It explains the guiding idea that slavery is both identified and constituted by the exercise of ‘the powers attaching to the right of ownership’. It discusses in detail the different powers and privileges that are connected to ownership, and then looks at their use in situations of slavery.
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“Some restrictions are permitted, although with the general presumption that the property interest of ownership is of a residuary character.”
From Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery Beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020) · cites this paper as Hickey 2012
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“Hickey (2012) identifies the traditional powers associated with ownership as possession, use, management, income, capital (transfer, total use, destruction), security (protection from unjust expropriation), transmissibility, absence of term (potentially limitless duration), and liability to execution.”
From Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery Beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020) · cites this paper as Hickey 2012
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“States around the world have demonstrated consensus on the centrality of property law in defining slavery in the negotiation and adoption of the 1926 Slavery Convention (Hickey 2012, p 221), which defines slavery by reference to the ' powers attaching to the right of ownership ' (League of Nations 1926a, art 1).”
From Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery Beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020) · cites this paper as Hickey 2012, p 221
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“That is, that the owner retains all property rights not vested in another or restricted by the State through legal mechanisms, and that property rights vest in the owner once all lesser rights and claims have been satisfied.”
From Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery Beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020) · cites this paper as Hickey 2012
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“Although articulated in terms of broad and overarching powers, this framework does not require the powers of ownership be absolutely unlimited in order to be recognised as such.”
From Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery Beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020) · cites this paper as Hickey 2012
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“This formulation of the content of property rights is founded in understandings of property law throughout history (Hickey 2012; Penner 2012).”
From Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery Beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020) · cites this paper as Hickey 2012
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“Thus, in light of the formulation of ownership in the property frame, chattel slavery turns not only on the exercise of any or all of the specific powers associated with ownership, but on the necessary underlying relationship of control tantamount to possession in which these are exercised (Hickey 2012; Research Group on the Legal Parameters of Slavery 2012).”
From Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery Beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020) · cites this paper as Hickey 2012
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Schwarz, K., & Nicholson, A. (2020) · Human Rights Review · doi:10.1007/s12142-020-00604-y · Cited by 8
“This formulation of the content of property rights is founded in understandings of property law throughout history (Hickey 2012; Penner 2012).”
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- Authors
- Hickey, R.
- Corresponding author
- Hickey, Robin
- ORCID
- Hickey, Robin
- Venue
- The Legal Understanding of Slavery
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2012-09-27
- Pages
- 220-241
- OpenAlex
- W2481904904
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 2.96
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Law and Human Rights
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Social Sciences › Law › Legal Rights and Human Rights
- Keywords
- slavery, definition of slavery, Article 1, ownership rights
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