Slavery

I. Meaning

1. Excerpts from the Bible

2. Politics / Aristotle

3. Nicomachean Ethics / Aristotle

4. De Officiis / Cicero

5. Six Books of the Commonwealth / Jean Bodin

6. Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes

7. Spirit of the Laws / Baron De Montesquieu

8. Philosophical Dictionary / Francois Voltaire

9. Encyclopedie / Denis Diderot

10. Notes on the State of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson

11. Science of Right / Immanuel Kant

12. Beyond Good and Evil / Friedrich Nietzsche

13. Lord and Peasant in Russia / Jerome Blum

14. Slavery in the Age of Revolution / David Brion Davis

15. Roll, Jordan, Roll / Eugene D. Genovese

16. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology / Moses I. Finley

17. Slavery in Russia / Richard Hellie

18. From Slavery to Feudalism / Pierre Bonnassie

19. Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia / Paul Freedman

20. Slavery in Early Mediaeval England / David A. E. Pelteret

21. Slavery in Africa / Igor Kopytoff and Suzanne Miers

22. Africa and the Africans / John Thornton

II. Origins and Methods of Enslavement

23. Excerpts from the Bible

24. City of God / St. Augustine

25. Praeloquia / Bishop Ratherius of Verona

26. Life of Johnson / James Boswell

27. Slavery as an Industrial System / H. J. Nieboer

28. White over Black / Winthrop D. Jordan

29. American Slavery, American Freedom / Edmund S. Morgan

30. Slavery in Russia / Richard Hellie

31. Slavery and Social Death / Orlando Patterson

32. Race and Color in Islam / Bernard Lewis

33. Africa and the Africans / John Thornton

34. Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery / David Eltis

35. Origins Debate / Alden T. Vaughan

III. Slave Laws

36. Excerpts from the Bible

37. Babylonian Laws

38. Digest of Justinian

39. Excerpts from the Koran

40. Law Code (Sudebnik) of 1550 / Richard Hellie

41. Massachusetts Code 1641

42. Muscovite Law Code of 1649 / Richard Hellie

43. Barbados Act 1661

44. Code Noir (1685) in Louisiana

45. Virginia Slave Code 1705

46. On the Rights of Persons / William Blackstone

47. Danish Slave Code 1733

48. Sommersett's Case 1772

49. Codigo Negro 1789

50. Cuban Slave Code 1842

51. Rio Branco Law 1871

52. Law of Negro Slavery / T. R. R. Cobb

53. Abolitionism / Joaquim Nabuco

54. Southern Slavery and the Law / Thomas D. Morris

IV. Slave Trade

55. Plan of the Brookes

56. Brother Luis Brandaon to Father Sandoval

57. Voyage of the James, 1675-6

58. Voyage of the Hannibal, 1693-4

59. Journal of a Slave Trader, 1750-4 / John Newton

60. Evil of Slavery / Ottobah Cugoano

61. Parliamentary Papers, 1795-6

62. Nouveau Voyage / Jean-Baptiste Labat

63. Life of Olaudah Equiano

64. African Slave Trade / Thomas Fowell Buxton

65. China to Cuba Labor Contract 1852

66. Merchant of Prato / Iris Origo

67. Atlantic Slave Trade / Philip D. Curtin

68. Wolof and Sereer of Senegambia / Martin A. Klein

69. Middle Passage / Herbert S. Klein

70. Transantlantic Slave Trade / David Eltis

71. Chinese Slavery / James L. Watson

72. Senegambian Slave Trade / Philip D. Curtin

73. Cuban Slave Trade / David Murray

74. Transformations in Slavery / Paul E. Lovejoy

75. Slave Trade in Bali / A. Van Der Kraan

76. Traders, Planters, and Slaves / David W. Galenson

77. Economic Growth and the Transatlantic Slave Trade / David Eltis

78. Economic Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade / Herbert S. Klein

79. Slavery in Medieval Scandinavia / Ruth Mazo Karras

80. Pacific Labour Reserve / Jacqueline Leckie

81. Slave Trade to Brazil / Stuart B. Schwartz

82. Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade / Robert William Fogel

83. Coolies and Mandarins / Yen Ching-Hwang

84. Anthropology of Slavery / Claude Meillassoux

85. Flourishing Business of Slavery / The Economist

86. Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain / Olivia Remie Constable

87. Memoir on the Traffic in Negroes in Cairo / Louis Frank

V. Experience of Slavery

88. Life of St. Balthild

89. West Indian Slave History / Mary Prince

90. St. Vincent Reports 1824

91. Rules Concerning Slaves / James H. Hammond

92. Appeal / David Walker

93. Letter to Domingo del Monte, 1835 / Juan Francisco Manzano

94. My Bondage and My Freedom / Frederick Douglass

95. Duties of Overseers / Thomas Affleck

96. Night-time Slave Meetings / Gabriel Debien

97. Description of Saint Domingue / M. L. E. Moreau De Saint-Mery

98. Black Jacobins / C. L. R. James

99. Masters and the Slaves / Gilberto Freyre

100. Birth of African-American Culture / Sidney Mintz and Richard Price

101. Public Works in Imperial China / Lien-Sheng Yang

102. Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora / Kenneth Kiple and Virginia Himmelsteib King

103. Slavery in Zanzibar / G. A. Akinola

104. Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro / Mary Karasch

105. Slave Populations of the British Caribbean / B. W. Higman

106. Religious Foundations of the Black Nation / Eugene D. Genovese

107. Without Consent or Contract / Robert William Fogel

108. Unfree Labour / Peter Kolchin

109. Within the Plantation Household / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

110. Tobacco and Slaves / Allan Kulikoff

111. Slave Counterpoint / Philip D. Morgan

VI. Resistance

112. Laws / Plato

113. Politics / Aristotle

114. Annals / Tacitus

115. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans / Plutarch

116. Revolt of the Zanj / Jarir Al-Tabari

117. Rebellion in Santo Domingo / Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo Y. Valdes

118. Children of God's Fire / Robert Edgar Conrad

119. Negro Insurrection in South Carolina

120. London Magazine

121. In Miserable Slavery / Douglas Hall

122. Narrative of a Five Years Expedition / John Gabriel Stedman

123. Toussaint L'Ouverture / George F. Tyson

124. Treaty Proposed by Slaves

125. Letter to the Moniteur de la Louisiane

126. Letter to David Porter / Samuel Hambleton

127. Trial of John Smith

128. Trial of Denmark Vesey

129. Anonymous Report in Cuba

130. Confession of Nat Turner

131. Harriet Whitehead Case

132. Death Struggles of Slavery / Henry Bleby

133. My Bondage and My Freedom / Frederick Douglass

134. Address at Cooper Institute 1860 / Abraham Lincoln

135. American Negro Slave Revolts / Herbert Aptheker

136. Toward an Afro-American History / Sidney W. Mintz

137. Roll, Jordan, Roll / Eugene D. Genovese

138. From Rebellion to Revolution / Eugene D. Genovese

139. Islam and Slave Rebellion in Bahia, Brazil / Joao Jose Reis and P. F. De Moraes Farias

140. Testing the Chains / Michael Craton

141. Bondsmen and Rebels / David Barry Gaspar

142. Slave Resistance and Social History / Robert L. Paquette

143. Feast and Riot / Jonathon Glassman

144. Slavery in the Greater Caribbean / David Patrick Geggus

145. Domination and the Arts of Resistance / James C. Scott

VII. Economics and Demography

146. Oeconomicus / Xenophon

147. Oeconomica / Aristotle

148. Instructions to the Jesuits

149. Principles of Political Oeconomy / James Steuart

150. Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith

151. Principles of Political Economy / John Stuart Mill

152. View of the Art of Colonization / Edward Gibbon Wakefield

153. Negro Question / John Stuart Mill

154. Economic Sophisms / Frederic Bastiat

155. Lectures on Colonization and Colonies / Herman Merivale

156. Capital / Karl Marx

157. Theory of Social and Economic Organization / Max Weber

158. Slave Trader Newsletter 1860

159. Slave Sale Advertisement 1861

160. Capitalism and Slavery / Eric Williams

161. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa / Walter Rodney

162. Sugarmill / Manuel Moreno Fraginals

163. Causes of Slavery or Serfdom / Evsey D. Domar

164. Slave Populations of the British Caribbean / B. W. Higman

165. Death in the Tropics / Stuart B. Schwartz

166. Without Consent or Contract / Robert William Fogel

167. Slavery and African Life / Patrick Manning

168. Memoir on the Traffic in Negroes in Cairo / Louis Frank

VIII. Abolition and Emancipation

169. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology / Moses I. Finley

170. Capitalism and Antislavery / Seymour Drescher

171. Methodist Resolution of 1784

172. Virginia Petition 1785

173. Liberator / William Lloyd Garrison

174. Emancipation of Slaves / Alexis De Tocqueville

175. Hansard 1843 / Lord Stanley

176. Hansard 1846 / Samuel Wilberforce

177. Paris Ethnological Society Debate 1847 / Victor Schoelcher

178. Negro Question / Thomas Carlyle

179. Diary / Edmund Ruffin

180. Mississippi Legislature 1850

181. Black Abolitionist Papers 1863

182. Army Life in a Black Regiment / Thomas Wentworth Higginson

183. Emancipation Proclamation 1863

184. Thirteenth Amendment

185. Defining the Boundaries of Freedom in the World of Cane / Rebecca J. Scott

186. Slavery By Any Other Name / The Economist.