Slavery and other forms of unfree labour / edited by Léonie J. Archer.

Bringing together normally self-contained areas of research, this book presents penetrating analyses of the nature and perpetuation of slavery through the ages.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: History Workshop Centre for Social History (Oxford, England)
Other Authors: Archer, Léonie J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1988.
Series:History workshop series.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Slavery and other forms of unfree labour / G.E.M. de Ste. Croix
  • 2. Serfdom in classical Greece / Paul A. Cartledge
  • 3. Herodotus and the man-footed creature / F.D. Harvey
  • 4. Greek theatre and the legitimation of slavery / David Wiles
  • 5. Slavery as a punishment in Roman criminal law / Joan Burdon
  • 6. Biblical laws of slavery : a comparative approach / Bernard S. Jackson
  • 7. Debt bondage in Latin America / Alan Knight
  • 8. Slaves and peasants in Buganda / Michael Twaddle
  • 9. Perceptions from an African slaving frontier / Wendy James
  • 10. Sudanese military slavery from the eighteenth to the twentieth century / Douglas H. Johnson
  • 11. Mark Twain and the ideology of southern slavery / R.J. Ellis
  • 12. All Americans are part African : slave influence on 'white' values / Mechal Sobel
  • 13. Slave trading and the mentalities of masters and slaves in ante- bellum America / Michael Tadman
  • 14. Runaway slaves in nineteenth-century Barbados / Gad Heuman
  • 15. Haiti : race, slavery and independence (1804-1825) / David Nicholls
  • 16. The social-psychological analysis of manumission / L. Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge
  • 17. "Many clear words to say" : Afro-American, oral and feminist history / Susan Grayzel
  • 18. Slavery : its special features and social role / Robin Blackburn.