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Slavery

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ISBN-10: 0192893025

ISBN-13: 9780192893024

Edition: 2001

Authors: Stanley Engerman, Seymour Drescher, Robert Paquette

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This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the economic, cultural, and political role of slavery, the volume shows the similarities as well as the differences in different times and places. While focusing primarily on the Americas, the volume extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies in the classical world, Africa, Asia, and the contemporary world. With over 150 selections, varying from one paragraph to several pages in length, the volume ranges widely, from international slave trade regulations and the individual records of slaveowners, to legislative debate concerning the…    
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List price: $129.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 516
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.29" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.804

Seymour Drescher is Distinguished University Professor of history and sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Introduction
Meaning
Introduction
Excerpts from the Bible
Politics
Nicomachean Ethics
De Officiis
Six Books of the Commonwealth
Leviathan
The Spirit of the Laws
A Philosophical Dictionary
Encyclopedie
Notes on the State of Virginia
The Science of Right
Beyond Good and Evil
Lord and Peasant in Russia
Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Slavery in Russia
From Slavery to Feudalism
Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia
Slavery in Early Mediaeval England
Slavery in Africa
Africa and the Africans
The Origins and Methods of Enslavement
Introduction
Excerpts from the Bible
The City of God
Praeloquia
Life of Johnson
Slavery as an Industrial System
White over Black
American Slavery, American Freedom
Slavery in Russia
Slavery and Social Death
Race and Color in Islam
Africa and the Africans
Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery
The Origins Debate
Slave Laws
Introduction
Excerpts from the Bible
The Babylonian Laws
The Digest of Justinian
Excerpts from the Koran
The Law Code (Sudebnik) of 1550
The Massachusetts Code 1641
The Muscovite Law Code of 1649
Barbados Act 1661
Code Noir (1685) in Louisiana
Virginia Slave Code 1705
On the Rights of Persons
Danish Slave Code 1733
Sommersett's Case 1772
Codigo Negro 1789
Cuban Slave Code 1842
Rio Branco Law 1871
The Law of Negro Slavery
Abolitionism
Southern Slavery and the Law
The Slave Trade
Introduction
The Plan of the Brookes
Brother Luis Brandaon to Father Sandoval
Voyage of the James, 1675-6
Voyage of the Hannibal, 1693-4
Journal of a Slave Trader, 1750-4
The Evil of Slavery
Parliamentary Papers, 1795-6
Nouveau Voyage
Life of Olaudah Equiano
The African Slave Trade
China to Cuba Labor Contract 1852
The Merchant of Prato
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Wolof and Sereer of Senegambia
The Middle Passage
Transantlantic Slave Trade
Chinese Slavery
The Senegambian Slave Trade
The Cuban Slave Trade
Transformations in Slavery
The Slave Trade in Bali
Traders, Planters, and Slaves
Economic Growth and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Economic Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade
Slavery in Medieval Scandinavia
The Pacific Labour Reserve
The Slave Trade to Brazil
The Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Coolies and Mandarins
The Anthropology of Slavery
The Flourishing Business of Slavery
Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain
Memoir on the Traffic in Negroes in Cairo
The Experience of Slavery
Introduction
Life of St. Balthild
A West Indian Slave History
St. Vincent Reports 1824
Rules Concerning Slaves
An Appeal
Letter to Domingo del Monte, 1835
My Bondage and My Freedom
Duties of Overseers
Night-time Slave Meetings
Description of Saint Domingue
The Black Jacobins
The Masters and the Slaves
The Birth of African-American Culture
Public Works in Imperial China
Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora
Slavery in Zanzibar
Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean
Religious Foundations of the Black Nation
Without Consent or Contract
Unfree Labour
Within the Plantation Household
Tobacco and Slaves
Slave Counterpoint
Resistance
Introduction
Laws
Politics
The Annals
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
The Revolt of the Zanj
Rebellion in Santo Domingo
Children of God's Fire
Negro Insurrection in South Carolina
The London Magazine
In Miserable Slavery
Narrative of a Five Years Expedition
Toussaint L'Ouverture
A Treaty Proposed by Slaves
Letter to the Moniteur de la Louisiane
Letter to David Porter
The Trial of John Smith
The Trial of Denmark Vesey
Anonymous Report in Cuba
Confession of Nat Turner
Harriet Whitehead Case
Death Struggles of Slavery
My Bondage and My Freedom
Address at Cooper Institute 1860
American Negro Slave Revolts
Toward an Afro-American History
Roll, Jordan, Roll
From Rebellion to Revolution
Islam and Slave Rebellion in Bahia, Brazil
Testing the Chains
Bondsmen and Rebels
Slave Resistance and Social History
Feast and Riot
Slavery in the Greater Caribbean
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Economics and Demography
Introduction
Oeconomicus
Oeconomica
Instructions to the Jesuits
Principles of Political Oeconomy
Wealth of Nations
Principles of Political Economy
A View of the Art of Colonization
The Negro Question
Economic Sophisms
Lectures on Colonization and Colonies
Capital
The Theory of Social and Economic Organization
Slave Trader Newsletter 1860
Slave Sale Advertisement 1861
Capitalism and Slavery
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
The Sugarmill
The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean
Death in the Tropics
Without Consent or Contract
Slavery and African Life
Memoir on the Traffic in Negroes in Cairo
Abolition and Emancipation
Introduction
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Capitalism and Antislavery
Methodist Resolution of 1784
Virginia Petition 1785
The Liberator
Emancipation of Slaves
Hansard 1843
Hansard 1846
Paris Ethnological Society Debate 1847
The Negro Question
Diary
Mississippi Legislature 1850
Black Abolitionist Papers 1863
Army Life in a Black Regiment
Emancipation Proclamation 1863
The Thirteenth Amendment
Defining the Boundaries of Freedom in the World of Cane
Slavery By Any Other Name
Bibliography
Biographical Notes
Acknowledgements
Index