| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
History workshop series
|
|
History workshop series.
|
| Note |
Papers from a workshop held in Oxford in April 1985 under the auspices of the History Workshop Centre for Social History. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-297) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Bringing together normally self-contained areas of research, this book presents penetrating analyses of the nature and perpetuation of slavery through the ages. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Congresses.
|
|
Slavery. |
| Indexed Term |
Slavery |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
|
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
| Added Author |
Archer, Léonie J.
|
|
History Workshop Centre for Social History (Oxford, England)
|
| Added Title |
Slavery and other forms of unfree labor |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Slavery and other forms of unfree labour. London ; New York : Routledge, 1988 0415002044 (DLC) 87031664 (OCoLC)17234078 |
| ISBN |
0203331818 (electronic book) |
|
9780203331811 (electronic book) |
|
0203401514 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
|
9780203401514 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
|
0203709756 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
|
9780203709757 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
|
128032354X |
|
9781280323546 |
|
9780415002042 (paperback) |
|
0415002044 (paperback) |
|
9780415002035 (hardcover) |
|
0415002036 (hardcover) |
|
0415002044 (Paper) |
|
0415002036 (hardcover) |
|
