The Routledge history of slavery

The Routledge history of slavery / edited by Gad Heuman and Trevor Burnard.

This book provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery over the last two milennia. Offering a transnational history of slavery, the chapters have all been specially commissioned for the collection. The volume begins by delineating the global nature of the institution of...

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Other Authors: Heuman, Gad J., Burnard, Trevor, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Routledge histories.
Subjects:
Slavery > History.
Slavery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Slavery
Electronic books.
handbooks.
History
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Trevor Burnard and Gad Heuman
  • Greek and Roman slavery / Niall McKeown
  • Slavery in Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy
  • Slavery in the Indian Ocean world / Gwyn Campbell
  • The origins of slavery in the Americas, 1500-1700 / Betty Wood
  • The Atlantic slave trade / Trevor Burnard
  • Work and the slave economy / Lorena Walsh
  • The demography of slavery / Richard Follett
  • Gender and family life / Jennifer L. Morgan
  • Remembered pasts : African Atlantic religions / Sylvia R. Frey
  • Slave culture / Matt D. Childs
  • The planter class / Trevor Burnard
  • Resistance to slavery / James Sidbury
  • Slave rebellions / Gad Heuman
  • Free coloureds / John Garrigus
  • Race relations in slave societies / Timothy James Lockley
  • Slavery in the age of revolution / Laurent Dubois
  • Abolition of the Atlantic slave trade / Christopher Leslie Brown
  • Forging freedom / Steven Hahn
  • Emancipation Day traditions in the Anglo-Atlantic world / Edward B. Rugemer
  • Modern slavery / Joel Quirk.

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