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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery Throughout History.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pargas, Damian A.
Other Authors: Schiel, Juliane.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Introduction: Historicizing and Spatializing Global Slavery
  • Introduction
  • Global Perspectives of Slavery
  • This Handbook
  • Notes
  • Part I Ancient Societies (to 500 C.E.)
  • 2 Mesopotamian Slavery
  • Introduction
  • Entering Slavery
  • The Labor and Economic Function of Slaves
  • The Experience of Household Slavery
  • Exiting Slavery
  • Conclusion: Paradigm and Variation
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 3 Ancient Egyptian Slavery
  • Introduction
  • Historical Overview
  • Entry into Enslavement
  • Abduction
  • Taxation
  • Sale
  • Hiring
  • Self-Sale
  • Birth
  • Debt Bondage
  • Extraction of Labor
  • Indirect Wages
  • Conditional Force
  • Commitment
  • Exit from Enslavement
  • Escape
  • Conditional Exit
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 4 Slavery in Ancient Greece
  • Introduction
  • Entry
  • The Experiences of Slaves
  • Exits
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 5 Slavery in the Roman Empire
  • Introduction
  • Entry into Slavery
  • Experiences of Enslavement-Labor Extraction
  • Experiences of Enslavement-Violent Domination
  • Exits from Slavery
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 6 Injection: An Archaeological Approach to Slavery
  • Introduction
  • The Archaeology of Slavery in State-Level Society
  • Classical Archaeology
  • African Diaspora
  • Finding Slaves in Small-Scale Societies
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • Part II Medieval Societies (500-1500 C.E.)
  • 7 Slavery in the Byzantine Empire
  • Introduction
  • Entry into Slavery
  • The Enslaved in the Labor Market and Social Organization
  • Exit from Slavery, Economic Dependency, and Social Integration
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 8 Slavery in Medieval Arabia
  • Introduction
  • Entry into Slavery
  • Experiences of Slavery
  • Concubines.
  • Eunuchs
  • Slave Soldiers
  • Female Slave Attendants and Domestics
  • Other Types of Labor Performed by Slaves
  • Exits from Slavery
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 9 Slavery in the Black Sea Region
  • Introduction
  • Entrance into Slavery
  • Experience of Slavery
  • Exit from Slavery
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 10 Slavery in the Western Mediterranean
  • Introduction
  • Entrance into Slavery
  • Experiences of Slavery
  • Exit from Slavery
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 11 The Question of Slavery in the Inca State
  • Introduction
  • The Inca Rulers
  • Becoming a Yana
  • Personal Service to the Ruler: Working for the Inca and Provincial Elites
  • Leaving the Yana Status
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 12 Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • Part III Early Modern Societies (1500-1800 C.E.)
  • 13 Slavery in the Mediterranean
  • Introduction1
  • Forms of Enslavement in the Mediterranean
  • Slaves' Experiences
  • Exits from Slavery
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 14 Slavery in the Ottoman Empire
  • Introduction
  • Entries into Slavery
  • Extraction Possibilities (Labor and Other)
  • Exits
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 15 Slavery in the Holy Roman Empire
  • Introduction
  • Entry of Enslaved Persons into the Holy Roman Empire
  • Forms and Experiences of Enslavement in the Holy Roman Empire
  • Exit from Enslavement in the Holy Roman Empire
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 16 Slavery and Serfdom in Muscovy and the Russian Empire
  • Introduction
  • Slavery in Medieval Russia
  • Kholopstvo in Early Modern Russia
  • Entry
  • Labor Extraction and Daily Life
  • Politics Regarding Kholopstvo
  • Exits from Kholopstvo
  • The End of Kholopstvo
  • Serfdom in Muscovy and the Russian Empire
  • Entry into Serfdom
  • Extraction of Labor.
  • Exit from Serfdom
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 17 Slavery in Late Ming China
  • Introduction
  • Enslavement Contracts: The Fiction of Voluntary Bondage
  • From Shadows to Light: Nubi Revolts
  • Entry: Becoming Nubi
  • Nubi Experience as Life in "Service"
  • Exit: The Unraveling Knot
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 18 Slavery in Chosŏn Korea
  • Introduction
  • Entry into Slavery
  • Experiences of Slaves
  • Exits from Slavery
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 19 Slavery in the Indian Ocean World
  • Introduction
  • Empires and the Consolidation of Pan-Indian Ocean Slaving Networks
  • Slaveries and Empires in the Age of Abolition
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 20 Maritime Passages in the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
  • Introduction
  • Routes into Slavery
  • Long Days' Journey into the Night
  • On the Water
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 21 The Rise of Atlantic Slavery in the Americas
  • Introduction
  • Origins and Entry into Slavery
  • How People Lived and Worked as "Slaves"
  • Exits from Slavery
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 22 Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean
  • Introduction
  • Rise of the Plantation System
  • The Atlantic Slave Trade
  • Jamaica circa 1756
  • Violence
  • Escaping Slavery and Slave Resistance
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • 23 Injection: Atlantic Slavery and Commodity Chains
  • Introduction
  • Sugar
  • Textiles
  • Metals
  • Industrious Revolution and Industrial Revolution
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • Part IV Modern Societies (1800-1900 C.E.)
  • 24 The Second Slavery in the Americas
  • Introduction
  • The Second Slavery
  • Plantations, Industrialization, Technology, and Second Slavery
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 25 Slavery in the US South
  • Introduction
  • Processes of Enslavement During the Second Slavery
  • Slave Labor in the Antebellum South.
  • Paths to Freedom
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 26 Slavery in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Introduction
  • The Nineteenth-Century Transformations
  • Slavery and the Nineteenth-Century Transformations
  • Modernization of the Military
  • Effects of European Capitalism
  • Enslaved Labor
  • Abolition and Exit from Slavery
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 27 Slavery in Islamic West Africa
  • Introduction
  • How People Were Enslaved
  • Work of Enslaved People
  • Pathways to Freedom
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 28 Urban East African Slavery
  • Introduction
  • Entry into Slavery
  • Extraction of Labor During Slavery
  • Exits from Slavery
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 29 Slavery in South Asia
  • Introduction
  • Preliminaries: On Terminology
  • Entry into Slavery
  • Experiences During Slavery
  • Exits from Slavery
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 30 Slavery in Southeastern Europe
  • Introduction
  • Slavery in the Romanian Principalities: Basic Characterization and Entry into Slavery
  • Changes in the Institution of Slavery from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries: Policies Regarding Slaves
  • Changes in Slave Labor: Extraction of Labor in the Final Period of Slavery
  • Exit from Slavery: Abolition of Slavery in the Romanian Principalities, 1831-1856
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 31 Injection: The Global Spread of Abolitionism
  • Introduction
  • The Rise and Development of Abolitionist Thought
  • The Mobilization of Abolitionist Movements
  • The Effects of Abolitionist Movements
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • Part V Contemporary Societies (1900-Present)
  • 32 American Slaveries Since Emancipation
  • Introduction
  • The Afterlife of Chattel Slavery
  • What Were Postbellum American Slaveries Like?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings.
  • 33 Slavery in Francophone West Africa
  • Introduction1
  • Labor Coercion in Twentieth-Century West Africa
  • Tahoua: Slow Death of Slavery, Slow Birth of Wage Labor
  • Entry
  • Extraction
  • Exit
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 34 Slave Labor in Nazi Germany
  • Introduction
  • The Origins of Forced and Slave Labor in Nazi Germany
  • Terms and Practices
  • Civilian Foreign Forced Laborers
  • Prisoners of War Camps
  • Work Education Camps (Arbeitserziehungslager)
  • The Nazi Concentration Camps and Slave Labor
  • Entry: The (Pseudo-)Legal Basis for Admission
  • Camp Arrival and Initiation Rites
  • Prisoner Experiences and Forms of Extraction of Slave Labor
  • The Evolution of Slave Labor in the Camps (1933-1945)
  • The Terms and Conditions for the Establishment of a Subcamp
  • A Comparative Look at Slave Labor: Costs, Incentives, and Mechanization
  • Forms of Violence
  • The Inmate Society
  • The Perpetrators
  • Exit
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 35 State-Introduced Slavery in Soviet Forced Labor Camps
  • Introduction
  • The Gulag and (Coerced) Labor in the Soviet Union
  • Entry into the Gulag
  • Life and Work in the Gulag
  • Return from the Gulag
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 36 North Korean Slavery and Forced Labor in Present-Day Europe
  • Introduction
  • Entry into Slavery (How People Became Enslaved)
  • Experiences of Slavery
  • A Practice by Which Human Beings Were Held Captive for Indefinite Periods of Time
  • Treated as Property that Could Be Bought and Sold
  • Coerced into Extremely Dependent and Exploitative Power Relationships
  • Denied Rights (Including Potential Rights Over Their Labor, Lives, and Bodies)
  • Subjected to Forced Migration by Various Means
  • Compelled to Labor Against Their Will
  • DPRK Overseas Labor as Globalizing Factor
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • 37 Modern Slavery in the Global Economy.
  • Introduction.

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