A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking

Benjamin N. Lawrance is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, USA. He is the author of Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling (2014). He is also the co-editor of several books, including Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status: The Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony (2015; with Galya Ruffer) and Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa (2012; with Richard L. Roberts).

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Ancient World
Edited by Grant Parker and David Cohen, both Stanford University, USA

Volume 2: A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Pre-Modern Era
Edited by Thomas J. MacMaster, Morehouse College, USA and Angela Zhang, York University, Canada

Volume 3: A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Encounters
Edited by R.A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona, USA

Volume 4: A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Empire
Edited by Mariana P. Candido, Emory University, USA

Volume 5: A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Global Conflict
Edited by Henrice Altink, University of York, UK

Volume 6: A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Globalization
Edited by Matilde Ventrella, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Each volume follows this structure:

List of illustrations
Introduction
1. Definitions and Ideologies of Slavery and Trafficking Slavery
2. Trafficking and the Law
3. Political Cultures
4. Coercive Laboring Economies
5. Social Organization, Culture, and Ritual
6. Gender, Enslavement, and Trafficking
7. Age, Enslavement, and Trafficking
8. Anti-Slavery, Anti-Trafficking and Abolition Outcomes
Notes
Bibliography
Index