Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Ancient World

Grant Parker teaches Greco-Roman and African studies at Stanford University and is Extraordinary Professor of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. His publications include The Agony of Asar: a thesis on slavery by the former slave, Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747 (2001).David Cohen is the WSD Handa Professor of Human Rights and International Justice, and Professor of Classics and of Environmental and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, USA. For over two decades he has designed and led trial monitoring, rule of law, judicial training, human trafficking, transitional justice and human rights projects in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

• List of IllustrationsNote on ContributorsGeneral Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction David Cohen, Micheal Duchesne, and Grant Parker (all Stanford University, USA)1. Definitions and Ideologies of Slavery and Trafficking Benjamin N. Lawrance (University of Arizona, USA)2. Slavery, Trafficking, and the Law John Hilton (University of the Free State, South Africa)3. Political Cultures Veronica S.-R. Shi (Independent Scholar, USA)4. Coercive Laboring Economies Mark Pyzyk (Independent Scholar, USA)5. Social Organization, Culture, Identity, and Ritual Edward Kelting (University of California, San Diego, USA)6. Gender, Enslavement, and Trafficking Marcello Ghetta (Franz Joseph Dölger-Institut, Germany)7. Family, Age, and Bondage Scott Weiss (Washington University, USA)8. Anti-Slavery, Anti-Trafficking, Resistance, and Abolition Outcomes Adam Donaldson (University of Arizona, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex