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Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine

Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine

Garnsey, Peter

Paperback

Series: W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures

Ancient History GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521574331
ISBN13: 9780521574334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 13 1996
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these societies, or a vigorous debate, such as occurred in antebellum America, but this does not imply that slavery was accepted without question. This book draws on a wide range of sources, pagan, Jewish and Christian, over ten centuries, to challenge the common assumption of passive acquiescence in slavery, and the associated view that, Aristotle apart, there was no systematic thought on slavery. The work contains both a typology of attitudes to slavery ranging from critiques to justifications, and paired case studies of leading theorists of slavery, Aristotle and the Stoics, Philo and Paul, Ambrose and Augustine.

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