Slaves and Slavery, History of

Burnard, Trevor

Abstract

Slavery has existed for millennia. It is both a status - an inferior person with no rights in a society - and a condition, a kind of humanity which was accorded fewer rights than other forms of humanity. A slave was the quintessential outsider. Most societies had slaves but only some societies - ancient Greece and Rome and the plantation colonies of European powers in the Americas - were slave societies in which slavery was essential to the economy and politically sensitive. In modern times, slavery has been strongly connected with race, especially the forced removal of Africans to the Americas to labor in the production of tropical goods.

Citation

Burnard, T. (2015). Slaves and Slavery, History of. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (54-58). (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.62025-1

• Online Publication Date: Mar 12, 2015
• Publication Date: Mar 26, 2015
• Deposit Date: Sep 16, 2021
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Pages: 54-58
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Book Title: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
• ISBN: 9780080970875; 9780080970868
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.62025-1
• Keywords: Africa; Agency; Atlantic world; Colonialism; Human rights; Industrialization; Labor; Marginality; Plantations; Racism; Social death
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3579642