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. Roman Gaul knew chattel slavery, and chattel slavery of the classical type persisted in the households and on the estates of the Gallo-Roman and Merovingian aristocracy long after the fall of imperial administration. Under the Carolingians, classical...

Despite the historical importance of slavery in many parts of the world anthropologists study, the subject remains somewhat marginal within the discipline. Much more has been written by historians, most of this dealing with the trans-Atlantic trade...

The definitions of slavery are as numerous as the societies in which slavery was to be found, and for good reason. The rights which owners had over their slaves and the duties by which they were bound constituted a bundle whose composition varied from...

The intersection of men, masculinity and slavery provides a site for examining the formation of male subjectivities within slavery. Slavery, a social relation in which people own other people as legal property, has been practised in all of the...

Slavery is a social-economic system under which certain persons — known as slaves — are deprived of personal freedom and compelled to perform labour or services. The term includes the status or condition of those persons who are treated as the...

SLAVERY America could really help black community Saturday, March 17, 2001 There has been much debate about whether to compensate the descendants of slaves for the crime of slavery that this country participated in ("Too late for slavery reparations?" The Morning...

This is an excerpt from the "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," his autobiography. My term of service with Edward Covey expired on Christmas Day, 1834. I gladly enough left him, although he was by this time as gentle as a lamb. My home...

Maryland lawmakers approved an apology Monday for the state's role in the slave trade, expressing "profound regret" that it once "trafficked in human flesh."Maryland follows Virginia in issuing a formal apology.The vote in the House of Delegates makes the apology official, because a resolution doesn't...

Meeting on the grounds of the former Confederate Capitol, the Virginia General Assembly voted unanimously Saturday to express "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery.Sponsors of the resolution say they know of no other state that has apologized for slavery, although Missouri lawmakers are...

In the United States slavery is understandably associated with the South since it was the Southern states that so vigorously defended the practice during the nineteenth century. However, to understand how slavery first took hold in the South, historians...

Essay discusses slavery in America during this era, and what a slave family dealt with on a daily basis, from working on a plantation, to attempting to escape.

Slavery was widespread in ancient Greece and Rome, with slaves generally used as herdsmen, housekeepers, guards in prisons, entertainment as gladiators and sexual pleasure. The number of slaves actually outnumbered free men by 3 to 1 on both Greece and Rome.

Describes the Trans Atlantic slave trade, between the 16th - 19th centuries, and how it resulted in enforced emigration of more than 10 million Africans. Argues that the active role of Africans in the trade proves that the enslavement of Africans was possible due to European - African co-operation, not enforcement of a dominating partner.