Slavery Book

	Introduction	1
I	Meaning
	Introduction	5
1	Excerpts from the Bible	7
2	Politics	9
3	Nicomachean Ethics	14
4	De Officiis	15
5	Six Books of the Commonwealth	15
6	Leviathan	19
7	The Spirit of the Laws	20
8	A Philosophical Dictionary	24
9	Encyclopedie	26
10	Notes on the State of Virginia	29
11	The Science of Right	30
12	Beyond Good and Evil	31
13	Lord and Peasant in Russia	33
14	Slavery in the Age of Revolution	34
15	Roll, Jordan, Roll	36
16	Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology	40
17	Slavery in Russia	41
18	From Slavery to Feudalism	44
19	Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia	47
20	Slavery in Early Mediaeval England	49
21	Slavery in Africa	52
22	Africa and the Africans	54
II	The Origins and Methods of Enslavement
	Introduction	57
23	Excerpts from the Bible	60
24	The City of God	61
25	Praeloquia	62
26	Life of Johnson	63
27	Slavery as an Industrial System	65
28	White over Black	68
29	American Slavery, American Freedom	72
30	Slavery in Russia	74
31	Slavery and Social Death	76
32	Race and Color in Islam	80
33	Africa and the Africans	82
34	Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery	85
35	The Origins Debate	89
III	Slave Laws
	Introduction	92
36	Excerpts from the Bible	93
37	The Babylonian Laws	96
38	The Digest of Justinian	98
39	Excerpts from the Koran	99
40	The Law Code (Sudebnik) of 1550	100
41	The Massachusetts Code 1641	102
42	The Muscovite Law Code of 1649	104
43	Barbados Act 1661	105
44	Code Noir (1685) in Louisiana	113
45	Virginia Slave Code 1705	118
46	On the Rights of Persons	122
47	Danish Slave Code 1733	124
48	Sommersett's Case 1772	125
49	Codigo Negro 1789	127
50	Cuban Slave Code 1842	134
51	Rio Branco Law 1871	138
52	The Law of Negro Slavery	142
53	Abolitionism	144
54	Southern Slavery and the Law	146
IV	The Slave Trade
	Introduction	149
55	The Plan of the Brookes	151
56	Brother Luis Brandaon to Father Sandoval	153
57	Voyage of the James, 1675-6	154
58	Voyage of the Hannibal, 1693-4	159
59	Journal of a Slave Trader, 1750-4	162
60	The Evil of Slavery	164
61	Parliamentary Papers, 1795-6	166
62	Nouveau Voyage	170
63	Life of Olaudah Equiano	173
64	The African Slave Trade	174
65	China to Cuba Labor Contract 1852	176
66	The Merchant of Prato	177
67	The Atlantic Slave Trade	180
68	The Wolof and Sereer of Senegambia	181
69	The Middle Passage	183
70	Transantlantic Slave Trade	183
71	Chinese Slavery	188
72	The Senegambian Slave Trade	189
73	The Cuban Slave Trade	191
74	Transformations in Slavery	193
75	The Slave Trade in Bali	193
76	Traders, Planters, and Slaves	196
77	Economic Growth and the Transatlantic Slave Trade	199
78	Economic Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade	201
79	Slavery in Medieval Scandinavia	203
80	The Pacific Labour Reserve	204
81	The Slave Trade to Brazil	207
82	The Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade	209
83	Coolies and Mandarins	212
84	The Anthropology of Slavery	214
85	The Flourishing Business of Slavery	216
86	Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain	219
87	Memoir on the Traffic in Negroes in Cairo	221
V	The Experience of Slavery
	Introduction	225
88	Life of St. Balthild	228
89	A West Indian Slave History	229
90	St. Vincent Reports 1824	231
91	Rules Concerning Slaves	232
92	An Appeal	238
93	Letter to Domingo del Monte, 1835	239
94	My Bondage and My Freedom	240
95	Duties of Overseers	242
96	Night-time Slave Meetings	245
97	Description of Saint Domingue	247
98	The Black Jacobins	251
99	The Masters and the Slaves	253
100	The Birth of African-American Culture	255
101	Public Works in Imperial China	257
102	Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora	259
103	Slavery in Zanzibar	262
104	Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro	264
105	Slave Populations of the British Caribbean	267
106	Religious Foundations of the Black Nation	274
107	Without Consent or Contract	277
108	Unfree Labour	280
109	Within the Plantation Household	282
110	Tobacco and Slaves	286
111	Slave Counterpoint	292
VI	Resistance
	Introduction	295
112	Laws	297
113	Politics	299
114	The Annals	299
115	The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans	300
116	The Revolt of the Zanj	303
117	Rebellion in Santo Domingo	308
118	Children of God's Fire	312
119	Negro Insurrection in South Carolina	314
120	The London Magazine	316
121	In Miserable Slavery	317
122	Narrative of a Five Years Expedition	319
123	Toussaint L'Ouverture	321
124	A Treaty Proposed by Slaves	323
125	Letter to the Moniteur de la Louisiane	324
126	Letter to David Porter	326
127	The Trial of John Smith	326
128	The Trial of Denmark Vesey	328
129	Anonymous Report in Cuba	331
130	Confession of Nat Turner	332
131	Harriet Whitehead Case	337
132	Death Struggles of Slavery	338
133	My Bondage and My Freedom	340
134	Address at Cooper Institute 1860	341
135	American Negro Slave Revolts	342
136	Toward an Afro-American History	345
137	Roll, Jordan, Roll	346
138	From Rebellion to Revolution	348
139	Islam and Slave Rebellion in Bahia, Brazil	350
140	Testing the Chains	352
141	Bondsmen and Rebels	354
142	Slave Resistance and Social History	356
143	Feast and Riot	359
144	Slavery in the Greater Caribbean	362
145	Domination and the Arts of Resistance	366
VII	Economics and Demography
	Introduction	371
146	Oeconomicus	375
147	Oeconomica	377
148	Instructions to the Jesuits	378
149	Principles of Political Oeconomy	380
150	Wealth of Nations	381
151	Principles of Political Economy	383
152	A View of the Art of Colonization	384
153	The Negro Question	386
154	Economic Sophisms	388
155	Lectures on Colonization and Colonies	389
156	Capital	391
157	The Theory of Social and Economic Organization	392
158	Slave Trader Newsletter 1860	394
159	Slave Sale Advertisement 1861	395
160	Capitalism and Slavery	397
161	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa	399
162	The Sugarmill	401
163	The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom	404
164	Slave Populations of the British Caribbean	405
165	Death in the Tropics	409
166	Without Consent or Contract	411
167	Slavery and African Life	413
168	Memoir on the Traffic in Negroes in Cairo	418
VIII	Abolition and Emancipation
	Introduction	420
169	Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology	423
170	Capitalism and Antislavery	426
171	Methodist Resolution of 1784	432
172	Virginia Petition 1785	433
173	The Liberator	435
174	Emancipation of Slaves	436
175	Hansard 1843	441
176	Hansard 1846	443
177	Paris Ethnological Society Debate 1847	447
178	The Negro Question	451
179	Diary	453
180	Mississippi Legislature 1850	455
181	Black Abolitionist Papers 1863	458
182	Army Life in a Black Regiment	460
183	Emancipation Proclamation 1863	462
184	The Thirteenth Amendment	463
185	Defining the Boundaries of Freedom in the World of Cane	464
186	Slavery By Any Other Name	467
	Bibliography	470
	Biographical Notes	473
	Acknowledgements	483
	Index	493