In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. But large slave systems in Africa and Asia predated, co-existed, and overlapped wit
This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why it develope
This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable
The study of slavery and coerced labour is increasingly conducted from a global perspective, and yet a dual Eurocentric bias remains: slavery primarily brings t
Noting that the modern perception of slavery is so colored by the American experience that people tend not to see other forms, eight essays describe the servile