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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779962303321

Titolo

Slavery and other forms of unfree labour / / editor, Leonie J. Archer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1988

ISBN

1-280-32354-X

0-203-40151-4

0-203-33181-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations

Collana

History workshop series

Altri autori (Persone)

ArcherLeonie J

Disciplina

306.362

306/.362

Soggetti

Slavery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour; Serfdom in Classical Greece; Herodotus and the Man-Footed Creature; Greek Theatre and the Legitimation of Slavery; Slavery as a Punishment in Roman Criminal Law; Biblical Laws of Slavery: a Comparative Approach; Debt Bondage in Latin America; Slaves and Peasants in Buganda; Perceptions from an African Slaving Frontier; Sudanese Military Slavery from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century; Mark Twain and the Ideology of Southern Slavery

All Americans Are Part African: Slave Influence on 'White' Values Slave Trading and the Mentalities of Masters and Slaves in Ante-Bellum America; Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados; Haiti: Race, Slavery and Independence (1804  1825); The Social-Psychological Analysis of Manumission; 'Many Clear Words to Say': Afro-American, Oral and Feminist History; Slavery; its Special Features and Social Role; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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