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Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed include the sources of slaves, the slave trade, the social and economic functioning of slave societies, the responses of slaves to enslavement, efforts to abolish slavery continuing to the present day, the flow of contract labor and other forms of labor control in the aftermath of abolition, and the various forms of coerced labor that emerged in the twentieth century under totalitarian regimes and colonialism.

Chapters include coverage of all parts of the world, providing a comparative presentation of slavery and related institutions
Contributions from leading authorities in their respective fields give authoritative reviews of major issues
The variety of ideological perspectives represented in the volume offer widely different worldviews and personal perspectives



Description Contents Resources Courses About the Authors
Table of Contents
Part I. Overview:
1. Introduction David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher and David Richardson
2. Demographic trends among coerced populations Barry W. Higman
3. Overseas movements of slaves and indentured workers David Northrup
Part II. Slavery:
4. Slavery in the non-Hispanic West Indies to 1863 Pieter C. Emmer and Stanley L. Engerman
5. Slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1804 to abolition Laird Bergad
6. Slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil João Reis
7. US slavery and its aftermath, 1804-2000 Stanley L. Engerman
8. Slavery in Africa, 1804-1936 Gareth Austen
9. Ottoman slavery and abolition in the nineteenth century Michael Ferguson and Ehud Toledano
10. Slavery and bondage in the Indian Ocean world, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani
11. Slavery in India Alessandro Stanziani
12. Slave resistance Robert L. Paquette
13. Black culture in the nineteenth century Alex Borucki and Jessica Millward
Part III. Abolition:
14. Slavery and the Haitian revolution David Geggus
15. Slavery and abolition in Islamic Africa, 1776-1905 Rudolph T. Ware, III
16. European antislavery: from empires of slavery to global prohibition Seymour Drescher
17. Antislavery and abolitionism in the United States, 1776-1870 James Brewer Stewart
18. The emancipation of the serfs in Europe Shane O´Rourke
19. British abolitionism from the vantage of pre-colonial South Asian regimes Indrani Chatterjee
20. The transition from slavery to freedom in the Americas after 1804 Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
21. Abolition and its aftermath in Brazil Celso Thomas Castilho
Part IV. Aftermath:
22. The American Civil War and its aftermath Peter A. Coclanis
23. Dependency and coercion in East Asian labor, 1800-1949 Pamela Crossley
24. Gender and coerced labor Pamela Scully and Kerry Ward
25. Coerced labor in twentieth-century Africa Richard Roberts
26. Indenture in the long nineteenth century Rosemarijn Hoefte
27. Forced labor in Nazi Germany and the Stalinist USSR Alan Barenberg
28. Contemporary coercive labor practices - slavery today Kevin Bales.