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What Is a Slave Society? - The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective (Hardcover)
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What Is a Slave Society? - The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective (Hardcover)
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The practice of slavery has been common across a variety of
cultures around the globe and throughout history. Despite the
multiplicity of slavery's manifestations, many scholars have used a
simple binary to categorize slave-holding groups as either 'genuine
slave societies' or 'societies with slaves'. This dichotomy, as
originally proposed by ancient historian Moses Finley, assumes that
there were just five 'genuine slave societies' in all of human
history: ancient Greece and Rome, and the colonial Caribbean,
Brazil, and the American South. This book interrogates this bedrock
of comparative slave studies and tests its worth. Assembling
contributions from top specialists, it demonstrates that the
catalogue of five must be expanded and that the model may need to
be replaced with a more flexible system that emphasizes the notion
of intensification. The issue is approached as a question, allowing
for debate between the seventeen contributors about how best to
conceptualize the comparative study of human bondage.
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