Based on lectures from a conference in Fall 2000 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arming slaves and helots in classical Greece / Peter Hunt --The maml�uk institution, or one thousand years of military slavery in the Islamic world / Reuven Amitai -- Armed slaves and political authority in Africa in the era of the slave trade, 1450-1800 / John Thornton -- Making the Chikunda : military slavery and ethnicity in southern Africa, 1750-1900 / Allen Isaacman and Derek Peterson -- Transforming bondsmen into vassals : arming slaves in colonial Spanish America / Jane Landers -- Arming slaves in Brazil from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century / Hendrik Kraay -- Arming slaves in the American revolution / Philip D. Morgan and Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy -- The arming of slaves in the Haitian revolution / David Geggus -- Citizen soldiers : emancipation and military service in the revolutionary French Caribbean / Laurent Dubois -- The slave soldiers of Spanish South America : from independence to abolition / Peter Blanchard -- Armed slaves and the struggles for republican liberty in the U.S. Civil War / Joseph P. Reidy -- Armed slaves and anticolonial insurgency in late nineteenth-century Cuba / Ada Ferrer -- The arming of slaves in comparative perspective / Christopher Leslie Brown.

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