Table of Contents

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 Zeuske

Antiquity 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 Ali

The 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 Seijas

Contemporary 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 BalesIndex

About the Author

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.