Slavery: And Other Forms of Unfree Labour / Edition 1

by Leonie Archer

Overview

First published in 1988. Bringing together normally self-contained areas of research, this book presents penetrating analyses of the nature and perpetuation of slavery through the ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415002042
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/11/1988
Series:	History Workshop Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1530L (what's this?)

About the Author

Leonie Archer

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour 2 Serfdom in Classical Greece 3 Herodotus and the Man-Footed Creature 4 Greek Theatre and the Legitimation of Slavery 5 Slavery as a Punishment in Roman Criminal Law 6 Biblical Laws of Slavery: a Comparative Approach 7 Debt Bondage in Latin America 8 Slaves and Peasants in Buganda 9 Perceptions from an African Slaving Frontier 10 Sudanese Military Slavery from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century 11 Mark Twain and the Ideology of Southern Slavery 12 All Americans Are Part African: Slave Influence on 'White' Values 13 Slave Trading and the Mentalities of Masters and Slaves in Ante[1]Bellum America 14 Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados 15 Haiti: Race, Slavery and Independence (1804-1825) 16 The Social-Psychological Analysis of Manumission 17 'Many Clear Words to Say': Afro-American, Oral and Feminist History 18 Slavery-its Special Features and Social Role

Editorial Reviews

‘... a wide-ranging, very readable collection of papers.' - London Review of Books

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