Slavery, power, and legitimacy (fragments)
Slavery, power, and legitimacy (fragments)

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the concept of ‘slavery’ in nineteenth-century Bulgarian culture. Starting from the theoretical problems in abstracting and formalizing ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ as unified terms and concepts, it examines their formalized metaphorization in nineteenth-century journalistic texts and institutional documents, as well as the social ‘encounters’ between the thematizations of the metaphor and the literal legal meanings of the term. The study focuses on the interpretations of the legitimacy of power in Bulgarian writing.

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