Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern

by Edited by Enrico Dal Lago , Constantina Katsari

• ISBN13: 9780521881838
• ISBN10: 0521881838
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery that characterised the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has inherited from the ancient in regard to ideology and practice of slavery; and also how many of the issues and problems related to the latter seem to have been fundamentally similar across time and space.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. viii
List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Slavery, Slave Systems, World History, and Comparative History	p. 1
The study of ancient and modern slave systems: setting an agenda for comparison	p. 3
Slavery, gender, and work in the pre-modern world and early Greece: a cross-cultural analysis	p. 32
Slaving as historical process: examples from the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Atlantic	p. 70
Economics and Technology of Ancient and Modern Slave Systems	p. 103
The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world	p. 105
Slavery and technology in pre-industrial contexts	p. 127
Comparing or interlinking? Economic comparisons of early nineteenth-century slave systems in the Americas in historical perspective	p. 148
Ideologies and Practices of Management in Ancient and Modern Slavery	p. 185
Ideal models of slave management in the Roman world and in the ante-bellum American South	p. 187
Panis, disciplina, et opus servo: the Jesuit ideology in Portuguese America and Greco-Roman ideas of slavery	p. 214
Exiting Slave Systems	p. 231
Processes of exiting the slave systems: a typology	p. 233
Emancipation schemes: different ways of ending slavery	p. 265
Slavery and Unfree Labour, Ancient and Modern	p. 283
Spartiates, helots and the direction of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective	p. 285
Bibliography	p. 321
Index	p. 360
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