Papers from a workshop held in Oxford in April 1985 under the auspices of the History Workshop Centre for Social History.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-297) and index.

1. Slavery and other forms of unfree labour / G.E.M. de Ste. Croix -- 2. Serfdom in classical Greece / Paul A. Cartledge -- 3. Herodotus and the man-footed creature / F.D. Harvey -- 4. Greek theatre and the legitimation of slavery / David Wiles -- 5. Slavery as a punishment in Roman criminal law / Joan Burdon -- 6. Biblical laws of slavery : a comparative approach / Bernard S. Jackson -- 7. Debt bondage in Latin America / Alan Knight -- 8. Slaves and peasants in Buganda / Michael Twaddle -- 9. Perceptions from an African slaving frontier / Wendy James -- 10. Sudanese military slavery from the eighteenth to the twentieth century / Douglas H. Johnson -- 11. Mark Twain and the ideology of southern slavery / R.J. Ellis -- 12. All Americans are part African : slave influence on 'white' values / Mechal Sobel -- 13. Slave trading and the mentalities of masters and slaves in ante- bellum America / Michael Tadman -- 14. Runaway slaves in nineteenth-century Barbados / Gad Heuman -- 15. Haiti : race, slavery and independence (1804-1825) / David Nicholls -- 16. The social-psychological analysis of manumission / L. Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge -- 17. "Many clear words to say" : Afro-American, oral and feminist history / Susan Grayzel -- 18. Slavery : its special features and social role / Robin Blackburn.

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