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Critical Readings on Global Slavery
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The study of slavery has grown strongly in recent years, as scholars working in several disciplines have cultivated broader perspectives on enslavement in a wide variety of contexts and settings.
Critical Readings on Global Slavery offers students and researchers a rich collection of previously published works by some of the most preeminent scholars in the field. With contributions covering various regions and time periods, this anthology encourages readers to view slave systems across time and space as both ubiquitous and interconnected, and introduces those who are interested in the study of human bondage to some of the most important and widely cited works in slavery studies.
Damian Alan Pargas (PhD 2009, Leiden University) is an associate professor of history at Leiden University. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on slave life in North America, and is the founder and chief editor of the
Journal of Global Slavery.
Felicia Roşu (PhD 2009, Georgetown University) is an associate professor of history at Leiden University. Her research and publications examine the interplay of freedom and unfreedom in early modern east-central Europe and the frontier zones between Europe and the Ottoman empire.
Felicia Roşu (PhD 2009, Georgetown University) is an associate professor of history at Leiden University. Her research and publications examine the interplay of freedom and unfreedom in early modern east-central Europe and the frontier zones between Europe and the Ottoman empire.
Introduction: Global Perspectives on Slavery
Damian Alan Pargas and Felicia Roşu
Definitions and Global Approaches
1 Definition and Distinction from Kindred Phenomena H. J. Nieboer 2 The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis Evsey D. Domar 3 The Emergence of a Slave Society Moses I. Finley 4 Authority, Alienation, and Social Death Orlando Patterson 5 The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold Claude Meillassoux 6 Slavery: A Question of Definition Suzanne Miers 7 History as a Problem of Slaving Joseph Miller 8 Historiography and Research Problems of Slavery and the Slave Trade in a Global-Historical Perspective Michael ZeuskeAntiquity to the Early Modern Period
9 Between Slavery and Freedom Moses I. Finley 10 A Scientific Approach to Ancient Slavery? Niall McKeown 11 A Life-Course Approach to Household Slaves in the Late Third Millennium BC Laura Culbertson 12 Slavery, Freedom and Citizenship in Classical Athens: Beyond a Legalistic Approach Kostas Vlassopoulos 13 Justifications: Barbarians and Natural Slaves N. R. E. Fisher 14 Novel Evidence for Roman Slavery Keith Hopkins 15 Resisting Slavery Keith Bradley 16 Body Work: Slavery and the Pauline Churches Jennifer A. Glancy 17 How and Why Ancient Slavery Came to an End Marc Bloch 18 Slavery in Early China: A Socio-Cultural Approach Robin D. S. Yates 19 Empire, Monotheism and Slavery in the Greater Mediterranean Region from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era Jeffrey Fynn-Paul 20 Medieval Slavery in a New Geopolitical Space Youval Rotman 21 Slavery in Late Medieval Europe William D. Phillips 22 The Identity of the Slave in Scandinavia Ruth Mazo Karras 23 Slavery and Cultural Antipathy David Wyatt 24 An Explanation of Military Slavery Daniel Pipes 25 War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola Empire Daud AliThe Modern World: 1450–1900
26 The Geography of Slaving in the Early Modern Mediterranean, 1500–1800 Robert Davis 27 Piracy, Ransom Slavery and Trade: French Participation in the Liberation of Ottoman Slaves from Malta during the 1620s Pál Fodor 28 Shifting Patterns of Ottoman Enslavement in the Early Modern Period Ehud R. Toledano 29 Ransom Slavery Along the Ottoman—Hungarian Frontier in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Géza Pálffy 30 The Black Sea and the Slave Trade: The Role of Crimean Maritime Towns in the Trade in Slaves and Captives in the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries Mikhail B. Kizilov 31 The Gypsies in the Romanian Lands during the Middle Ages: Slavery Viorel Achim 32 Serfs, Slaves, or Wage Earners? The Legal Status of Labour in Russia from a Comparative Perspective, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century Alessandro Stanziani 33 I Make Him My Dog/My Slave Brett Rushforth 34 The Process of Enslavement and the Slave Trade John K. Thornton 35 Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery in the Americas: An Interpretation David Eltis 36 The Living Dead Aboard the Slave Ship at Sea Stephanie Smallwood 37 From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America Ira Berlin 38 Task and Gang Systems: The Organization of Labor on New World Plantations Philip D. Morgan 39 Rethinking Palmares: Slave Resistance in Colonial Brazil Stuart B. Schwartz 40 The “Second Slavery”: Bonded Labor and the Transformation of the Nineteenth-Century World Economy Dale Tomich 41 Antislavery Debates: Tides of Historiography in Slavery and Antislavery Seymour Drescher 42 Indian Ocean Slaves in Cape Town, 1695–1807 Nigel Worden 43 Slavery, Forced Labour and Resistance in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia Gwyn Campbell and Edward A. Alpers 44 Carrying Away the Unfortunate from India and Southeast Asia, 1500–1800 Richard B. Allen 45 “Closed” and “Open” Slave Systems in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia Anthony Reid 46 The Structure of Slavery in the Sulu Zone in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries James Francis Warren 47 The Rise and Fall of the Transpacific Slave Trade Tatiana SeijasContemporary Slavery
48 Illicit Human Cargoes Eric Tagliacozzo 49 Slavery and the Slave Trade as International Issues, 1890–1939 Suzanne Miers 50 Trafficked into Slavery Joel Quirk 51 Forced Marriage: Slavery Qua Enslavement and the Civil War in Sierra Leone Jean Allain 52 Slavery in its Contemporary Manifestations Kevin Bales Index
Students and scholars interested in the history of slavery and human bondage around the world, from antiquity to the present day.