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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Archer, Léonie J.

History Workshop Centre for Social History (Oxford, England)

Series:

History workshop series.

History workshop series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Congresses.

Slavery.

Crimes against humanity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Papers from a workshop held in Oxford in April 1985 under the auspices of the History Workshop Centre for Social History.

Includes bibliography: p. [280]-297 and index.

ISBN:

1-280-32354-X

0-203-40151-4

0-203-33181-8

9780203401514

OCLC:

58994381