The legal understanding of slavery : from the historical to the contemporary / edited by Jean Allain.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

1st edition

81944

Slavery -- Law and legislation.

Slavery -- Law and legislation -- History.

Section 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Section 2. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Section 3. 11. 12. 13. 14. Section 4. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Historical readings of the law of slavery

The nature of slavery

The law of slavery and the European ius commune

Definitions and conceptions of slave ownership in Islamic law

The definition of slavery in eighteenth-century thinking : not the true Roman slavery

From consensus to consensus : slavery in international law

The American experience : blurred boundaries of slavery

Slavery in the United States : persons or property?

To indent onself : ownership, contracts, and consent in antebellum Illinois

Under color of law : Siliadin v France and the dynamics of enslavement in historical perspective

The rise, persistence, and slow decline of legal slavery

the abolition of slavery in the United States : historical context and its contemporary application

The 1926 definition in context

The legal definition of slavery into the twenty-first century

Seeking to understand the definition of slavery

The concept of property and the concept of slavery

Defining slavery in all its forms : historical inquiry as contemporary instruction

Contemporary slavery

Slavery in its contemporary manifestation

Contemporary international legal norms on slavery : problems of judicial interpretation and application

Trafficking, gender and slavery : past and present

Professor Kevin Bales's response to Professor Orlando Patterson

Rejoinder : Professor Orlando Patterson's response to Professor Kevin Bales.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

9780199660469

xviii, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm