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Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery (2024)
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Spicksley, J. M. (2024). Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery. Journal of global slavery, 9(3), 336-371. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00903012

For most scholars of slavery, the pairing of the terms ‘voluntary’ and ‘slavery’ remains problematic. The dominant model of slavery defines it as an involuntary status, in which people—according to the liberal model of ownership—were reduced to ‘thin... Read More about Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery.