Brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - the articles t

Slavery, first published in 1958, examines four main types of modern slavery: chattel slavery; the sale of women into marriage; the sale of children into work a

Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the su

This volume reflects the main themes of research and publications on the sociology and economics of slavery, illustrating the dynamic relations between modes of