Damian A. Pargas is Professor of North American History and Culture at Leiden University as well as Director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in The Netherlands.

Juliane Schiel is Associate Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna in Austria.

Presents concise introductions to slavery in different settings, appealing to all interested in the history of slavery

Encourages comparison between slave systems across the world, an increasing trend in the study of slavery

Highlights issues that affected slave systems during certain time periods through thematic 'injections'

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1: Introduction: Historicising and Spatialising Global Slavery; Damian A. Pargas.- Part 1: Ancient Societies (to 500 C.E.).- 2. Mesopotamian Slavery; Seth Richardson.- 3: Ancient Egyptian Slavery; Ella Karev.- 4: Slavery in Ancient Greece; Kostas Vlassopoulos.- 5: Slavery in the Roman Empire; Noel Lenski.- 6: Injection: An Archaeological Approach to Slavery; Catherine M. Cameron. Part 2: Medieval Societies (500-1500 C.E.).- 7: Slavery in the Byzantine Empire; Youval Rotman.- 8: Slavery in Medieval Arabia; Magdalena Moorthy-Kloss.- 9: Slavery in the Black Sea Region; Hannah Barker.- 10: Slavery in the Western Mediterranean; Juliane Schiel.- 11: The Question of Slavery in the Inca State; Karoline Noack and Kerstin Nowack.- 12: Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery; Ruth Karras.- Part 3: Early Modern Societies (1500-1800 C.E.).- 13: Slavery in the Mediterranean; Giulia Bonazza.- 14: Slavery in the Ottoman Empire; Hayri Gök¿in Özkoray.- 15: Slavery in the Holy Roman Empire; Josef Köstlbauer.- 16: Slavery and Serfdom in Muscovy and the Russian Empire; Hans-Heinrich Nolte and Elena Smolarz.- 17: Slavery in Late Ming China; Claude Chevaleyre.- 18: Slavery in Chos¿n Korea; Sun Joo Kim.- 19: Slavery in the Indian Ocean World; Titas Chakraborty.- 20: Maritime Passages in the Indian Ocean Slave Trade; Pedro Machado.- 21: The Rise of Atlantic Slavery in the Americas; Michael Zeuske.- 22: Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean; Trevor Burnard.- 23: Injection: Atlantic Slavery and Commodity Chains; Klaus Weber.- Part 4: Modern Societies (1800-1900 C.E.).- 24: The Second Slavery in the Americas; Michael Zeuske.- 25: Slavery in the US South; Damian A. Pargas.- 26: Slavery in the Middle East and North Africa; Ismael M. Montana.- 27: Slavery in Islamic West Africa; Jennifer Lofkrantz.- 28: Urban East African Slavery; Michelle Liebst.- 29: Slavery in South Asia; Emma Kalb.- 30: Slavery inSoutheastern Europe; Viorel Achim.- 31: Injection: The Global Spread of Abolitionism; William Mulligan.-Part 5: Contemporary Societies (1900-Present).- 32: American Slaveries since Emancipation; Catherine Armstrong.- 33: Slavery in French West Africa; Benedetta Rossi.- 34: Slave Labor in Nazi Germany; Marc Buggeln.- 35: State-introduced Slavery in Soviet Forced Labor Camps; Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal.- 36: North Korean Slavery and Forced Labor in Present-Day Europe; Remco Breuker.- 37: Modern Slavery in the Global Economy; Bruno Lamas.- 38: Injection: Modern Slavery and Political Strategy; Joel Quirk.- 39: Conclusion: Situating Slavery Studies in the Field of Global History; Juliane Schiel.