The Cambridge World History of Slavery

Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume – the final vol...

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Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume – the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery – covers the period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the transatlantic plantation complexes by assembling twenty-three original essays, written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. The volume demonstrates the continual and central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade, empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people.

Chapter 1 - Slavery in the Medieval Millennium
Part I - Captivity and the Slave Trade
Chapter 2 - The Greater Mediterranean Slave Trade
Chapter 3 - Captivity, Ransom, and Manumission, 500–1420
Chapter 4 - Forced Migrations and Slavery in the Mongol Empire (1206–1368)
Chapter 5 - The Trade in Slaves in the Black Sea, Russia, and Eastern Europe
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Chapter 1 - Slavery in the Medieval Millennium
Part I - Captivity and the Slave Trade
Chapter 2 - The Greater Mediterranean Slave Trade
Chapter 3 - Captivity, Ransom, and Manumission, 500–1420
Chapter 4 - Forced Migrations and Slavery in the Mongol Empire (1206–1368)
Chapter 5 - The Trade in Slaves in the Black Sea, Russia, and Eastern Europe
Chapter 6 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Western Indian Ocean World
Part II - Race, Sex, and Everyday Life
Chapter 7 - Child Enslavement in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Chapter 8 - Intersections of Gender, Sex, and Slavery: Female Sexual Slavery
Chapter 9 - Attitudes toward Blackness
Chapter 10 - Slavery and Agency in the Middle Ages
Part III - East and South Asia
Chapter 11 - Slavery in Medieval China
Chapter 12 - Slavery in Medieval Korea
Chapter 13 - Slavery and Dependency in Medieval South India
Part IV - The Islamic World
Chapter 14 - Slavery in the Islamic Middle East (c. 600–1000 CE)
Chapter 15 - Military Slavery in Medieval North India
Chapter 16 - Slavery in the Mamluk Sultanate
Chapter 17 - Slavery in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Part V - Africa, the Americas, and Europe
Chapter 18 - Slavery in the Carolingian Empire
Chapter 19 - Slavery in the Byzantine Empire
Chapter 20 - Slavery in Northern Europe (Scandinavia and Iceland) and the British Isles, 500–1420
Chapter 21 - Slavery in Medieval Iberia
Chapter 23 - Slavery in Precontact America
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