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Introduction The Meaning of Slavery The Bible Aristotle: Politics Aristotle: Ethics Cicero: De Officis Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan Baron de Montesquieu: Spirit of the Laws Jean Bodin: The Six Books of a Commonweale Francois Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary Denis Diderot: Encyclopedie Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia Immanuel Kant: Science of Right Juan Francisco Manzano: Letter to Domingo del Monte, 25 June 1835 Friedrich Neitzsche: Beyond Good and Evil Jerome Blum: Lord and Peasant in Russia David Brion Davis: The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 Eugene D. Genovese: Roll, Jordan, Roll Sir Moses I. Finley: Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology Richard Hellie: Slavery in Russia 1405-1725 Pierre Bonnassie: From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe Paul Freedom: The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia David A. E. Pelteret: Slavery in Early Medieval England Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff: Slavery in Africa John Thornton: Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World Causes of Enslavement The Bible St. Augustine: The City of God Bishop Ratherius of Verona: Praeloquia 935-937 AD James Boswell: Life of Johnson H.J. Nieboer: Slavery as an Industrial System Winthrop D. Jordan: White over Black Edmund S. Morgan: American Slavery, American Freedom Richard Hellie: Slavery in Russia Orlando Patterson: Slavery and Social Death Bernard Lewis: Race and Color in Islam Fields: Slavery, Race, Ideology John Thornton: Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World David Eltis: Europeans and the Rise and Fall of Slavery Slave Laws The Bible Digest of Justinian Richard Hellie: Muscovite Society Richard Hellie: The Reign of Sovereign Code Noir 1685 William Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England Thomas D. Morris: Southern Slavery and the Law 1619-1860 Danish Slave Code 1733 Codigo Negro 1789 Cuban Slave Law 1842 Somersett Decision 1772 Barbados Laws: Excerpts from 1661 Rio Branco Law 1871 Joaquim Nabuco: Abolitionism: The Brazilian Antislavery Struggle T.R. Cobb: An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery (1858) Massachusetts Code 1641 Virginia Code 1705 The Babylonian Laws The Koran The Slave Trade Elizabeth Donnan: Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to America John Newton: The Journal of a Slave Trader 1750-4 Ottobah Cugoano: Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787) Parliamentary Papers Jean Baptist Labat: Nouveau Voyage Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton: The African Slave Trade and its Remedy Hamoa: Cuba-Chinese 1812 Contract Marchesa Iris Origo: The Merchant of Prato Philip D. Curtin: The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census Martin Klein: Woolf and Sereer of Senegambia Herbert S. Klein: The Middle Passage David Eltis: (Forthcoming on total slave trade) James L. Watson: Transactions in People: The Chinese Market in Slaves, Servants, and Heirs Philip D. Curtin: Abolition of the Slave Trade from Senegambia David Murray: Odious Commerce: Britain, Spain, and the abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade Paul E. Lovejoy: Transformations in Slavery Alfons van der Kraan: Bali: Slavery and the Slave Trade David W. Galenston: Traders, Planters, and Slaves David Eltis: Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Herbert S. Klein: Economic Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade Ruth Mazo Karras: Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia Clive Moore, Jaqueline Leckie and Doug Munro: Labour in the South Pacific Stuart Schwartz: Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society Robert William Fogel: Without Consent or Con

Containing over 150 selections, this book draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Though focusing primarily on the Americas, it also extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies: the classical world, Africa, Asia, and the contemporary world.

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Introduction The Meaning of Slavery The Bible Aristotle: Politics Aristotle: Ethics Cicero: De Officis Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan Baron de Montesquieu: Spirit of the Laws Jean Bodin: The Six Books of a Commonweale Francois Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary Denis Diderot: Encyclopedie Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia Immanuel Kant: Science of Right Juan Francisco Manzano: Letter to Domingo del Monte, 25 June 1835 Friedrich Neitzsche: Beyond Good and Evil Jerome Blum: Lord and Peasant in Russia David Brion Davis: The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 Eugene D. Genovese: Roll, Jordan, Roll Sir Moses I. Finley: Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology Richard Hellie: Slavery in Russia 1405-1725 Pierre Bonnassie: From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe Paul Freedom: The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia David A. E. Pelteret: Slavery in Early Medieval England Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff: Slavery in Africa John Thornton: Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World Causes of Enslavement The Bible St. Augustine: The City of God Bishop Ratherius of Verona: Praeloquia 935-937 AD James Boswell: Life of Johnson H.J. Nieboer: Slavery as an Industrial System Winthrop D. Jordan: White over Black Edmund S. Morgan: American Slavery, American Freedom Richard Hellie: Slavery in Russia Orlando Patterson: Slavery and Social Death Bernard Lewis: Race and Color in Islam Fields: Slavery, Race, Ideology John Thornton: Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World David Eltis: Europeans and the Rise and Fall of Slavery Slave Laws The Bible Digest of Justinian Richard Hellie: Muscovite Society Richard Hellie: The Reign of Sovereign Code Noir 1685 William Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England Thomas D. Morris: Southern Slavery and the Law 1619-1860 Danish Slave Code 1733 Codigo Negro 1789 Cuban Slave Law 1842 Somersett Decision 1772 Barbados Laws: Excerpts from 1661 Rio Branco Law 1871 Joaquim Nabuco: Abolitionism: The Brazilian Antislavery Struggle T.R. Cobb: An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery (1858) Massachusetts Code 1641 Virginia Code 1705 The Babylonian Laws The Koran The Slave Trade Elizabeth Donnan: Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to America John Newton: The Journal of a Slave Trader 1750-4 Ottobah Cugoano: Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787) Parliamentary Papers Jean Baptist Labat: Nouveau Voyage Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton: The African Slave Trade and its Remedy Hamoa: Cuba-Chinese 1812 Contract Marchesa Iris Origo: The Merchant of Prato Philip D. Curtin: The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census Martin Klein: Woolf and Sereer of Senegambia Herbert S. Klein: The Middle Passage David Eltis: (Forthcoming on total slave trade) James L. Watson: Transactions in People: The Chinese Market in Slaves, Servants, and Heirs Philip D. Curtin: Abolition of the Slave Trade from Senegambia David Murray: Odious Commerce: Britain, Spain, and the abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade Paul E. Lovejoy: Transformations in Slavery Alfons van der Kraan: Bali: Slavery and the Slave Trade David W. Galenston: Traders, Planters, and Slaves David Eltis: Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Herbert S. Klein: Economic Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade Ruth Mazo Karras: Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia Clive Moore, Jaqueline Leckie and Doug Munro: Labour in the South Pacific Stuart Schwartz: Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society Robert William Fogel: Without Consent or Con

Containing over 150 selections, this book draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Though focusing primarily on the Americas, it also extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies: the classical world, Africa, Asia, and the contemporary world.

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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. Withover 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, tolegislative debate concerning the emancipation of slaves. The volume aims to show the diversity of human experiences of slavery, and explains the causes of both the ending as well as the origins of slavery. Covering many aspects of slavery, the volume considers the ways in which slavery has been justified and attacked, the operations of slave societies, and the experiences of those living in them. Selections are drawn from a wide variety of sources, such as biblical and philosophicaldiscussions, the writings of slaves, slaveowners, abolitionists, economists, lawyers, and historians. In addition, the volume includes selections from many leading historians and economists studying slavery andemancipation.

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About the Author

Stanley L. Engerman is Professor of Economics and History at the University of Rochester, NY. His publications include 'The Colonial Era', volume I of 'The Cambridge Economic History of the United States' (edited with Robert Gallman, 1996). Robert Paquette is Professor of History at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. He is the author of 'Sugar is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba' (1998). SeymourDrescher is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His publications include 'The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics and Culture after Slavery' (1992).

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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 emancipation of slaves. The volume aims to show the diversity of human experiences of slavery, and explains the causes of both the ending as well as the origins of slavery. Covering many aspects of slavery, the volume considers the ways in which slavery has been justified and attacked, the operations of slave societies, and the experiences of those living in them. Selections are drawn from a wide variety of sources, such as biblical and philosophical discussions, the writings of slaves, slaveowners, abolitionists, economists, lawyers, and historians. In addition, the volume includes selections from many leading historians and economists studying slavery and emancipation.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
29th March 2001
Pages
516
ISBN
9780192893024

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