The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 3: AD 1420–AD 1804

Volume 3 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery is a collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labor in Africa, Asia and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of the new nation of Haiti. The authors, well-known authorities in their respective fields, place slavery in the foreground of the collection but also examine other types of coerced labor. Essays are organized both nationally and thematically and cover the major empires, coerced migration, slave resistance, gender, demography, law and the economic significance of coerced labor. Non-scholars will also find this volume accessible. cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 2 Series Editors' Introduction......Page 14 Dependence, Servility, and Coerced Labor in Time and Space......Page 16 Enslavement in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period......Page 38 Slavery in Islamic Africa, 1400–1800......Page 62 Slavery in Non-Islamic West Africa, 1420–1820......Page 96 Slaving and Resistance to Slaving in West Central Africa......Page 126 White Servitude......Page 147 Slavery in Southeast Asia, 1420–1804......Page 176 Slavery in Early Modern China......Page 201 Slavery in Indigenous North America......Page 230 Indigenous Slavery in South America, 1492–1820......Page 263 Russian Slavery and Serfdom, 1450–1804......Page 288 Manorialism and Rural Subjection in East Central Europe, 1500–1800......Page 312 Slavery in the Atlantic Islands and the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic World......Page 338 Slavery and Politics in Colonial Portuguese America The Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries......Page 365 Slavery in the British Caribbean......Page 393 Slavery in the North American Mainland Colonies......Page 422 Slavery in the French Caribbean, 1635–1804......Page 446 Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Minor Atlantic Powers......Page 465 Demography and Family Structures......Page 492 The Concept of Creolization......Page 528 Black Women in the Early Americas......Page 553 Involuntary Migration in the Early Modern World, 1500–1800......Page 576 European Forced Labor in the Early Modern Era......Page 609 Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World, 1420–1807......Page 628 Transatlantic Slavery and Economic Development in the Atlantic World West Africa, 1450–1850......Page 665 Slave Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804......Page 690 Runaways and Quilombolas in the Americas......Page 723 "Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The CambridgeWorld History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare"--Provided by publisher. "Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare"--Provided by publisher Volume 1 in the new Cambridge World History of Slavery surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare. There was never any sustained opposition to slavery, and the new religion of Christianity probably reinforced rather than challenged its existence. In twenty-two chapters, leading scholars explore the centrality of slavery in ancient Mediterranean life using a wide range of textual and material evidence. Non-specialist readers in particular will find the volume an accessible account of the early history of this crucial phenomenon.