slavery
Additional Reading > General works
Theoretical works on slavery include H.J. Nieboer, Slavery as an Industrial System: Ethnological Researches, 2nd rev. ed. (1910, reprinted 1971); and Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (1982). Several cultures are presented in David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966, reissued 1971), The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (1975), and Slavery and Human Progress (1984).Contents of this article:
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·Introduction
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·Historical survey
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·The law of slavery
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·The sociology of slavery
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·Agriculture
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·Slave culture
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·Additional Reading
