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Informationen zum Autor Stanley L. Engerman is Professor of Economics and History at the University of Rochester, NY. His publications include 'The Colonial Era', volume I of 'The Cambridge Economic History of the United States' (edited with Robert Gallman, 1996).Robert Paquette is Professor of History at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. He is the author of 'Sugar is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba' (1998).Seymour Drescher is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His publications include 'The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics and Culture after Slavery' (1992). Klappentext This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins! history! and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the economic! cultural! and political role of slavery! the volume shows the similarities as well as the differences in different times and places. Whilefocusing primarily on the Americas! the volume extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies in the classical world! Africa! Asia! and the contemporary world. With over 150 selections! varying from one paragraph to several pages in length! the volume ranges widely! from internationalslave trade regulations and the individual records of slaveowners! to legislative debate concerning the emancipation of slaves. The volume aims to show the diversity of human experiences of slavery! and explains the causes of both the ending as well as the origins of slavery. Covering many aspectsof slavery! the volume considers the ways in which slavery has been justified and attacked! the operations of slave societies! and the experiences of those living in them. Selections are drawn from a wide variety of sources! such as biblical and philosophical discussions! the writings of slaves! slaveowners! abolitionists! economists! lawyers! and historians. In addition! the volume includes selections from many leading historians and economists studying slavery and emancipation. Zusammenfassung Containing over 150 selections, this book draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Though focusing primarily on the Americas, it also extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies: the classical world, Africa, Asia, and the contemporary world. INTRODUCTION; MEANING; The Bible; Politics; Ethics; De Officis; Leviathan; Spirit of the Laws; The Six Books of a Commonweale; A Philosophical Dictionary; Encyclopedie; Notes on the State of Virginia; Science of Right; Letter to Domingo del Monte, 25 June 1835; Beyond Good and Evil; Lord and Peasant in Russia; The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823; Roll, Jordan, Roll; Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology; Slavery in Russia 1405-1725; From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe; The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia; Slavery in Early Medieval England; Slavery in Africa; Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World; THE ORIGINS AND METHODS OF ENSLAVEMENT; The Bible; The City of God; Praeloquia 935-937 AD; Life of Johnson; Slavery as an Industrial System; White over Black; American Slavery, American Freedom; Slavery in Russia; Slavery and Social Death; Race and Color in Islam; Slavery, Race, Ideology; Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World; Europeans and the Rise and Fall of Slavery; SLAVE LAWS; The Bible; Digest of Justinian; Muscovite Society; The Reign of Sovereign; Code Noir 1685; Commentaries on the Laws of England; Southern Slavery and the Law 1619-1860; Danish Slave Code 1733; Codigo Negro 1789; Cuban Slave Law 1842; Somersett Decision 1772; Barbados Laws: Excerpts from 1661; Rio Branco Law 1871; Abolitionism: The Brazilian Antislavery Struggle; An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery (1858); Massachusetts Code 1641; Virginia Code 1705; The Babylonian...
