Excerpt from Lectures on Slavery and Serfdom in Europe Slavery in British Colonies. Slavery revived in 1442; Portuguese and Spaniards commenced negro slavery; Sir John Hawkins, the first English slave-dealer; Progress, continuance, and abolition of the slave trade; Sale of Spaniards in England. Slaves in Barbadoes in 1647; Sale of a slave related by Ligon; Ligon's account of Sambo who wished to be a Christian; Story of Yarico, sold into slavery by him whose life she saved; Sale of English and Irish into slavery by Cromwell; Thousands of Irish boys and women sold as slaves in est Indies; Twenty-five thousand Irish slaves in St. Kitts; Father Morison on sale of Irish young ladies; Slavery of political convicts made perpetual by Cromwell; Irish girls kidnapped and transported into Jamaica; The same practice continued under Charles II; English, Scotch, and Irish slaves in Barbadoes under James II; Rebels in Monmouth's rebellion sent as slaves by Judge Jeffreys; Henry Pitman's account of his own sufferings there; The Abolition or Slavery In Europe. 1. France; The chartulary of the Abbey of St. Bertin; The four chains of slavery which bound the serf; Emancipations from twelfth to fifteenth century. Their motives; Emancipations not always accepted; Village communes for mutual protection; Effect of Crusades on emancipation. Communities of serfs; Family communities in Croatia and Servia; Serfdom existed in some parts of France until 1789; 2. Germany. Horigen, or serfs, and leibeigener, or slaves; Emancipation slower in Germany than in France; The Peasants' War in the sixteenth century About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Kolchin compares the world of masters and the world of slaves in U.S. and Russian nonfree labor systems. He theorizes that while southern states in the U.S. existed as slaveowner's communities, the rural Russian communal landcape was severely influenced by the bargaining power of peasant bondsmen.

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.

Recovers the voices, experiences and agency of enslaved people in ancient Greece.