Eminent scholars provide an overview of what we now know about slavery as an institution and way of life in cultures around the globe from ancient times to the present day. Drawing on the virtual explosion of empirical research and theoretical discussion on the subject over the past thirty years, many of the articles overturn conventional wisdom and illuminate little-known aspects of the subject, with essays on topics such as concubinage, eunuchs, and occupational mobility.
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"An indispensable guide to the study of slavery and other forms of coerced labor in the broadest geographical and temporal perspectives."--Robert W. Fogel, Walgreen Professor of Population Economics, The University of Chicago
" . . . this guide does what all the best reference works do: it not only reflects the current state of knowledge and understanding but highlights contentious issues and suggests possibilities for further research . . .This is a guide which will serve students of world slavery very well for many years to come."--Times Literary Supplement
" . . . this guide does what all the best reference works do: it not only reflects the current state of knowledge and understanding but highlights contentious issues and suggests possibilities for further research . . .This is a guide which will serve students of world slavery very well for many years to come."--Times Literary Supplement
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Seymour Drescher is at University of Pittsburgh. Stanley Engerman is at University of Rochester.
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Just as slavery in Africa was multifaceted, so was the freeing of the slaves under colonial rule during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Southeast Asia, Saint Domingue, Cambridge University Press, Latin America, African Americans, West Indies, North America, Oxford University Press, West Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, Middle Ages, British Caribbean, Puerto Rico, East Africa, Hebrew Bible, Indian Ocean, Middle Passage, South America, French Caribbean, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, South Africa, New England New!
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Just as slavery in Africa was multifaceted, so was the freeing of the slaves under colonial rule during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Southeast Asia, Saint Domingue, Cambridge University Press, Latin America, African Americans, West Indies, North America, Oxford University Press, West Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, Middle Ages, British Caribbean, Puerto Rico, East Africa, Hebrew Bible, Indian Ocean, Middle Passage, South America, French Caribbean, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, South Africa, New England New!
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- The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census by Philip D. Curtin on 9 pages
- Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study by Orlando Patterson on 8 pages
- Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese on 7 pages
- Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives by Suzanne Miers on 7 pages
- Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology (Penguin history) by M. I. Finley on 7 pages
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- Unprofitable Servants: Crown Slaves in Berbice, Guyana, 1803-1831 by Alvin O. Thompson on 4 pages
- La modernité de l'esclavage (French Edition) by Yves Benot on page 17, page 260, and Back Matter
- When Did Southern Segregation Begin? (Historians at Work) by John David Smith on page 38, and Back Matter
- Slavery, Secession, and Southern History by Robert L. Paquette in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Slavery and the American South (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History) by Winthrop D. Jordan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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