1st Edition

Slavery And Other Forms of Unfree Labour

By Leonie Archer Copyright 1988
    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Leonie Archer

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