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List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgments xii
Slavery, Slave Systems, World History, and Comparative History 1
The study of ancient and modern slave systems: setting an agenda for comparison Enrico Dal Lago Constantina Katsari 3
Slavery, gender, and work in the pre-modern world and early Greece: a cross-cultural analysis Orlando Patterson 32
Slaving as historical process: examples from the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Atlantic Joseph C. Miller 70
Economics and Technology of Ancient and Modern Slave Systems 103
The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world Walter Scheidel 105
Slavery and technology in pre-industrial contexts Tracey Rihll 127
Comparing or interlinking? Economic comparisons of early nineteenth-century slave systems in the Americas in historical perspective Michael Zeuske 148
Ideologies and Practices of Management in Ancient and Modern Slavery 185
Ideal models of slave management in the Roman world and in the ante-bellum American South Enrico Dal Lago Constantina Katsari 187
Panis, disciplina, et opus servo: the Jesuitideology in Portuguese America and Greco-Roman ideas of slavery Rafael de Bivar Marquese Fabio Duarte Joly 214
Exiting Slave Systems 231
Processes of exiting the slave systems: a typology Olivier Petre-Grenouilleau 233
Emancipation schemes: different ways of ending slavery Stanley Engerman 265
Slavery and Unfree Labour, Ancient and Modern 283
Spartiates, helots and the direction of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective Stephen Hodkinson 285
Bibliography 321
Index 360
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Christina Cross
reviewed Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern on March 07, 2012
Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern
I've often said that I don't know how to rate Non-Fiction books. I figured that I was interested in the topic, and have often marveled at the dearth of widely available information regarding the colonial era slave culture. Since I've written a SF novel set in the 1730's that involves slavery in the colonies I figured I should have some minimal exposure to the historicity of the era (before I release it to my half-dozen or so potential readers). Imagine my great joy when I stumbled on this little gem in a used bookstore.
Of course, I was frustrated that of the four main parts of this book, only one really focused on the Atlantic trade... an area of which I knew very little and found horrible and fascinating. The remaining portions were also informative and clearly written, although they bounced around a bit and were frustratingly non-specific about when particular moments happened, was it 1680? 1760? Who knows? I mean, the author did indicate that there were several periods, sometimes decades long, when attitudes towards slavery were softening, and freedoms were granted to slaves, to times when those freedoms were being taken away and more racists attitudes dominated.
Also, northern slaves, southern slaves, slaves in the Chesapeake area, or even the difference between a creole slave and one straight from africa were worlds apart in their treatment, their expectations, of their liberties.... this book tries to make a cohesive tale out of a pretty complicated matter that spanned centuries.
Still, good job all round keeping this concise, and in providing about the best bibliography I've seen in awhile.
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