Part I. Slavery, Slave Systems, World History and Comparative History: 1.
The study of ancient and modern slave systems: setting an agenda for
comparison Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari; 2. Slavery, gender, and
work in the pre-modern world and early Greece: a cross-cultural analysis
Orlando Patterson; 3. Slavery as historical process: examples from the
ancient Mediterranean and the modern Atlantic Joseph C. Miller; Part II.
Economics and Technology of Ancient and Modern Slave Systems: 4. The
comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world Walter Scheidel;
5. Slavery and technology in pre-industrial contexts Tracey Rihll; 6.
Comparing or interlinking? Economic comparisons of early nineteenth-century
slave systems in the Americas in historical perspective Michael Zeuske;
Part III. Ideologies and Practices of Management in Ancient and Modern
Slavery: 7. Ideal models of slave management in the Roman world and the
Antebellum American South Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari; 8.
Panis, disciplina, et opus servo: the Jesuit ideology in Portuguese America
and Greco-Roman ideas of slavery Rafael de Bivar Marquese and Fabio Duarte
Joly; Part IV. Exiting Slave Systems: 9. Processes of exiting the slave
systems: a typology Olivier Pétrè-Grenouilleau; 10. Emancipation schemes:
different ways of ending slavery Stanley Engerman; Part V. Slavery and
Unfree Labor, Ancient and Modern: 11. Spartiates, helots, and the direction
of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative
perspective Stephen Hodkinson.
