Slavery

Mikhail G. Brik since 2007 is a professor at the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Estonia. Chong-Geng Ma is a professor at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

• Introduction 1 Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour 2 Serfdom in Classical Greece 3 Herodotus and the Man-Footed Creature 4 Greek Theatre and the Legitimation of Slavery 5 Slavery as a Punishment in Roman Criminal Law 6 Biblical Laws of Slavery: a Comparative Approach 7 Debt Bondage in Latin America 8 Slaves and Peasants in Buganda 9 Perceptions from an African Slaving Frontier 10 Sudanese Military Slavery from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century 11 Mark Twain and the Ideology of Southern Slavery 12 All Americans Are Part African: Slave Influence on 'White' Values 13 Slave Trading and the Mentalities of Masters and Slaves in Ante[1]Bellum America 14 Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados 15 Haiti: Race, Slavery and Independence (1804-1825) 16 The Social-Psychological Analysis of Manumission 17 'Many Clear Words to Say': Afro-American, Oral and Feminist History 18 Slavery-its Special Features and Social Role

`... a wide-ranging, very readable collection of papers.' - London Review of Books