The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery Throughout History.

• Author: Pargas, Damian A.
• TeilnehmendeR: Schiel, Juliane.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (714 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Historicizing and Spatializing Global Slavery -- Introduction -- Global Perspectives of Slavery -- This Handbook -- Notes -- Part I Ancient Societies (to 500 C.E.) -- 2 Mesopotamian Slavery -- Introduction -- Entering Slavery -- The Labor and Economic Function of Slaves -- The Experience of Household Slavery -- Exiting Slavery -- Conclusion: Paradigm and Variation -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 3 Ancient Egyptian Slavery -- Introduction -- Historical Overview -- Entry into Enslavement -- Abduction -- Taxation -- Sale -- Hiring -- Self-Sale -- Birth -- Debt Bondage -- Extraction of Labor -- Indirect Wages -- Conditional Force -- Commitment -- Exit from Enslavement -- Escape -- Conditional Exit -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 4 Slavery in Ancient Greece -- Introduction -- Entry -- The Experiences of Slaves -- Exits -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 5 Slavery in the Roman Empire -- Introduction -- Entry into Slavery -- Experiences of Enslavement-Labor Extraction -- Experiences of Enslavement-Violent Domination -- Exits from Slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 6 Injection: An Archaeological Approach to Slavery -- Introduction -- The Archaeology of Slavery in State-Level Society -- Classical Archaeology -- African Diaspora -- Finding Slaves in Small-Scale Societies -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Readings -- Part II Medieval Societies (500-1500 C.E.) -- 7 Slavery in the Byzantine Empire -- Introduction -- Entry into Slavery -- The Enslaved in the Labor Market and Social Organization -- Exit from Slavery, Economic Dependency, and Social Integration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 8 Slavery in Medieval Arabia -- Introduction -- Entry into Slavery -- Experiences of Slavery -- Concubines.

Eunuchs -- Slave Soldiers -- Female Slave Attendants and Domestics -- Other Types of Labor Performed by Slaves -- Exits from Slavery -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 9 Slavery in the Black Sea Region -- Introduction -- Entrance into Slavery -- Experience of Slavery -- Exit from Slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 10 Slavery in the Western Mediterranean -- Introduction -- Entrance into Slavery -- Experiences of Slavery -- Exit from Slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 11 The Question of Slavery in the Inca State -- Introduction -- The Inca Rulers -- Becoming a Yana -- Personal Service to the Ruler: Working for the Inca and Provincial Elites -- Leaving the Yana Status -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 12 Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery -- Notes -- Further Readings -- Part III Early Modern Societies (1500-1800 C.E.) -- 13 Slavery in the Mediterranean -- Introduction1 -- Forms of Enslavement in the Mediterranean -- Slaves' Experiences -- Exits from Slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 14 Slavery in the Ottoman Empire -- Introduction -- Entries into Slavery -- Extraction Possibilities (Labor and Other) -- Exits -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 15 Slavery in the Holy Roman Empire -- Introduction -- Entry of Enslaved Persons into the Holy Roman Empire -- Forms and Experiences of Enslavement in the Holy Roman Empire -- Exit from Enslavement in the Holy Roman Empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 16 Slavery and Serfdom in Muscovy and the Russian Empire -- Introduction -- Slavery in Medieval Russia -- Kholopstvo in Early Modern Russia -- Entry -- Labor Extraction and Daily Life -- Politics Regarding Kholopstvo -- Exits from Kholopstvo -- The End of Kholopstvo -- Serfdom in Muscovy and the Russian Empire -- Entry into Serfdom -- Extraction of Labor.

Exit from Serfdom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 17 Slavery in Late Ming China -- Introduction -- Enslavement Contracts: The Fiction of Voluntary Bondage -- From Shadows to Light: Nubi Revolts -- Entry: Becoming Nubi -- Nubi Experience as Life in "Service" -- Exit: The Unraveling Knot -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 18 Slavery in Chosŏn Korea -- Introduction -- Entry into Slavery -- Experiences of Slaves -- Exits from Slavery -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 19 Slavery in the Indian Ocean World -- Introduction -- Empires and the Consolidation of Pan-Indian Ocean Slaving Networks -- Slaveries and Empires in the Age of Abolition -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 20 Maritime Passages in the Indian Ocean Slave Trade -- Introduction -- Routes into Slavery -- Long Days' Journey into the Night -- On the Water -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 21 The Rise of Atlantic Slavery in the Americas -- Introduction -- Origins and Entry into Slavery -- How People Lived and Worked as "Slaves" -- Exits from Slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 22 Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean -- Introduction -- Rise of the Plantation System -- The Atlantic Slave Trade -- Jamaica circa 1756 -- Violence -- Escaping Slavery and Slave Resistance -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 23 Injection: Atlantic Slavery and Commodity Chains -- Introduction -- Sugar -- Textiles -- Metals -- Industrious Revolution and Industrial Revolution -- Notes -- Further Readings -- Part IV Modern Societies (1800-1900 C.E.) -- 24 The Second Slavery in the Americas -- Introduction -- The Second Slavery -- Plantations, Industrialization, Technology, and Second Slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 25 Slavery in the US South -- Introduction -- Processes of Enslavement During the Second Slavery -- Slave Labor in the Antebellum South.

Paths to Freedom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 26 Slavery in the Middle East and North Africa -- Introduction -- The Nineteenth-Century Transformations -- Slavery and the Nineteenth-Century Transformations -- Modernization of the Military -- Effects of European Capitalism -- Enslaved Labor -- Abolition and Exit from Slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 27 Slavery in Islamic West Africa -- Introduction -- How People Were Enslaved -- Work of Enslaved People -- Pathways to Freedom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 28 Urban East African Slavery -- Introduction -- Entry into Slavery -- Extraction of Labor During Slavery -- Exits from Slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 29 Slavery in South Asia -- Introduction -- Preliminaries: On Terminology -- Entry into Slavery -- Experiences During Slavery -- Exits from Slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 30 Slavery in Southeastern Europe -- Introduction -- Slavery in the Romanian Principalities: Basic Characterization and Entry into Slavery -- Changes in the Institution of Slavery from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries: Policies Regarding Slaves -- Changes in Slave Labor: Extraction of Labor in the Final Period of Slavery -- Exit from Slavery: Abolition of Slavery in the Romanian Principalities, 1831-1856 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 31 Injection: The Global Spread of Abolitionism -- Introduction -- The Rise and Development of Abolitionist Thought -- The Mobilization of Abolitionist Movements -- The Effects of Abolitionist Movements -- Notes -- Further Readings -- Part V Contemporary Societies (1900-Present) -- 32 American Slaveries Since Emancipation -- Introduction -- The Afterlife of Chattel Slavery -- What Were Postbellum American Slaveries Like? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings.

33 Slavery in Francophone West Africa -- Introduction1 -- Labor Coercion in Twentieth-Century West Africa -- Tahoua: Slow Death of Slavery, Slow Birth of Wage Labor -- Entry -- Extraction -- Exit -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 34 Slave Labor in Nazi Germany -- Introduction -- The Origins of Forced and Slave Labor in Nazi Germany -- Terms and Practices -- Civilian Foreign Forced Laborers -- Prisoners of War Camps -- Work Education Camps (Arbeitserziehungslager) -- The Nazi Concentration Camps and Slave Labor -- Entry: The (Pseudo-)Legal Basis for Admission -- Camp Arrival and Initiation Rites -- Prisoner Experiences and Forms of Extraction of Slave Labor -- The Evolution of Slave Labor in the Camps (1933-1945) -- The Terms and Conditions for the Establishment of a Subcamp -- A Comparative Look at Slave Labor: Costs, Incentives, and Mechanization -- Forms of Violence -- The Inmate Society -- The Perpetrators -- Exit -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 35 State-Introduced Slavery in Soviet Forced Labor Camps -- Introduction -- The Gulag and (Coerced) Labor in the Soviet Union -- Entry into the Gulag -- Life and Work in the Gulag -- Return from the Gulag -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 36 North Korean Slavery and Forced Labor in Present-Day Europe -- Introduction -- Entry into Slavery (How People Became Enslaved) -- Experiences of Slavery -- A Practice by Which Human Beings Were Held Captive for Indefinite Periods of Time -- Treated as Property that Could Be Bought and Sold -- Coerced into Extremely Dependent and Exploitative Power Relationships -- Denied Rights (Including Potential Rights Over Their Labor, Lives, and Bodies) -- Subjected to Forced Migration by Various Means -- Compelled to Labor Against Their Will -- DPRK Overseas Labor as Globalizing Factor -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 37 Modern Slavery in the Global Economy.

Introduction.