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The Common Lot: A History of Slavery, from the Ancient World to the Modern Conscience: 3000 BCE - The Present

The Common Lot: A History of Slavery, from the Ancient World to the Modern Conscience: 3000 BCE - The Present

Paperback

Series: Slavery Knows Bound !!

Iraq HistoryTurkey & Ottoman Empire History

ISBN13: 9798199202909
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A book that ranges across five thousand years stands, at every step, upon the labour of others, and my debts are beyond proper counting.
To the scholars whose lifetimes in the archives made this synthesis possible I owe the greatest of them. Any history of ancient bondage must build upon the foundational work of Moses Finley, who taught us to distinguish the slave society from the society that merely has slaves; of Orlando Patterson, whose conception of slavery as a kind of social death runs throughout these pages; and of Keith Bradley, Keith Hopkins, Walter Scheidel, and Kyle Harper, among many others, whose patient researches into the Roman world I have drawn upon constantly. For the long afterlife of the institution I am indebted to the historians of serfdom, of the medieval and Islamic trades, and of the Atlantic crossing, and to the scholars whose painstaking work at last allowed that final horror to be counted.

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