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The Palgrave Handbook
of Global Slavery
throughout History
Edited by Damian A. Pargas · Juliane Schiel
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout
History
Damian A. Pargas · Juliane Schiel
Editors
The Palgrave
Handbook of Global
Slavery throughout
History
Editors
Damian A. Pargas Juliane Schiel
Institute for History Institute for Economic
Leiden University and Social History
Leiden, The Netherlands University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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viii CONTENTS
Index 709
Notes on Contributors
xi
xii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Paul E. Lovejoy Prize, the ASU Institute for Humanities Research book prize,
and honorable mentions for the Mediterranean Seminar’s Wadjih F. al-Hamwi
Prize and the Middle East Medievalists book prize. Other recent publications
include “The Risk of Birth: Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women in
Fifteenth-Century Genoa,” Journal of Global Slavery 6 (2021) and “Laying
the Corpses to Rest: Grain Embargoes and the Early Transmission of the Black
Death in the Black Sea, 1346–1347,” Speculum 96 (2021).
Giulia Bonazza is currently Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global fellow at
Columbia University (NY) and Ca’ Foscari University (Venice) with a project
titled The Darker Shades of Black. The Value of Skin Colour in the Mediter-
ranean and Atlantic Slave and Labour Markets, 1750–1886. She is a former
fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome (2018) and a former Max
Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute (Florence)
(2016–2017).
Remco E. Breuker is Professor of Korean Studies at Leiden University, the
Netherlands. A historian, he has published extensively on Korean and North-
east Asian medieval history. Next to his work on historical Korea, he also works
on contemporary North Korea, in particular on exile narratives, human rights
issues, and DPRK overseas economic activities. A present research focus is
the presence of North Korean forced labor and modern slavery in interna-
tional supply chains. He is (co-) author of among other titles: Forging the
Truth: Creative Deception and National Identity in Medieval Korea (ANU,
2009), Establishing a Pluralist Society in Medieval Korea (918–1170): History,
Ideology and Identity in the Koryŏ Dynasty (Brill, 2010), People for Profit:
North Korean Forced Labour on a Global Scale (edited with I.B.L.H. van
Gardingen, LeidenAsiaCentre, 2018), Invented Traditions in North and South
Korea (edited with Andrew Jackson, Codrut, a Sîntionean, and CedarBough
Saeji, Hawai’i University Press, 2022), and Samguk yusa: Forgotten Legacies
of the Three Kingdoms (with Boudewijn Walraven, Grace Koh, and Frits Vos,
Hawai’i University Press, forthcoming 2023).
Marc Buggeln is Assistant Professor at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute at
the Free University Berlin and Privatdozent at the History Department at
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His main research interests are: German and
European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentration
camps, (forced) labor, National Socialism, social inequality, tax and budget
policy, governmentality. His publications include: Das Versprechen der Gleich-
heit. Steuern und sozialeUngleichheit in Deutschland seit 1871 [The Promise
of Equality.Progressive Taxation and the Reduction of Social Inequality since
1871] (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2022); and Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration
Camps (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Trevor Burnard is the Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation
at the University of Hull and the Director of the Wilberforce Institute. He
is the author of Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xiii
Emma Kalb completed her Ph.D. in South Asian Languages and Civilizations
at the University of Chicago in May 2020 and is currently a postdoctoral
researcher at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the
University of Bonn. Her current book project is entitled “Unequal Intimacies:
Gender, Slavery and Servitude in the Mughal World.”
Ella Karev is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Near
Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, an Egyp-
tologist and papyrologist whose research focuses on the social and economic
aspects of enslavement and bound labor throughout Egyptian history with a
particular focus on the Late and Ptolemaic Periods. She additionally inves-
tigates body modification for both enslaved and unenslaved persons, and is
preparing a book on scars as an identifying feature in Graeco-Roman papyri.
Ruth Mazo Karras is Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin.
She is the author of five monographs and editor of three volumes as well
as author of dozens of articles and book chapters on a variety of topics
in medieval social history and the history of gender and sexuality. She
has discussed medieval slavery in Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandi-
navia (1988) and in Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the
Middle Ages (2012).
Sun Joo Kim is Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History in the Depart-
ment of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She has
a broad range of research interests in social and cultural history of Chosŏn
Korea (1392–1910) including regional history of the northern part of Korea,
popular movements, historical memory, micro history, history of emotions,
law and society, slavery, and art history.
Josef Köstlbauer is a historian based at the Bonn Center for Dependency and
Slavery Studies (University of Bonn). His publications cover a broad range
of topics, from historical semantics of dependency to slavery in early modern
Europe, colonial borderlands, the history of digital games, and baroque alle-
gorical painting. Together with Rebekka von Mallinckrodt and Sarah Lentz he
recently published a volume titled Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and
the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–1850 (DeGruyter 2021).
Bruno Lamas an architect by training, worked in the fields of urbanism and
urban and regional planning between 2004 and 2017. He is currently a fellow
of the FCT, the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research, and
technology, and a Ph.D. student in Economic and Organizational Sociology
in UL-ISEG, Lisbon School of Economics and Management, developing the
dissertation “The Metamorphoses of Modern Slavery: Labour, Self-ownership
and the Problem of Slavery in the History of Capitalism.”
Noel Lenski is the Dunham Professor of Classics and History at Yale Univer-
sity. His previous scholarship includes Failure of Empire: Valens and the
Roman State in the Fourth Century AD (Berkeley 2002), Constantine and
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xv
the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics (Philadelphia 2016), and the
co-edited volume What is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global
Perspective (Cambridge 2018).
Michelle Liebst is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and historian of East Africa
specializing on the themes of religion, labor, humanitarianism, gender, and
citizenship. She is the author of Labour and Christianity in the Mission (James
Currey, 2021), and based at UCL, she works on the ERC-funded project,
“African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in
Africa” (AFRAB).
Jennifer Lofkrantz is an Associate Professor of History at Gulf University for
Science and Technology, Kuwait. She specializes in the history of precolonial
West Africa and the contemporary history of northern Nigeria, particularly on
Muslim West African debates on legal and illegal enslavement, the ransoming
of war prisoners, and historical and contemporary jihadism.
Pedro Machado is a global and Indian Ocean historian with interests in
commodity histories, labor and migratory movements, and the social, cultural,
environmental, and commercial trajectories of objects. He is based at Indiana
University, Bloomington, and is the author of several works, among which
are Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean,
c. 1750–1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2014); “Views from Other Boats:
On Amitav Ghosh’s Indian Ocean ‘Worlds,” American Historical Review, Vol.
121, No. 5 (December 2016); Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures and the
Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); and Pearls,
People and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds (Ohio University Press,
2020). He is currently at work on a global history of pearl shell collection and
exchange while also developing research on eucalyptus and colonial forestry in
the Portuguese empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Ismael M. Montana received his Ph.D. from York University in Toronto. He
is an Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. Montana
is the author of The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunis (Gainesville, 2013)
and a co-editor with Paul E. Lovejoy and Behnaz M. Asl of Islam, Slavery,
and Diaspora (Trenton, 2009). His research interests include the social and
economic history of slavery, culture, and citizenship in Northwest Africa and
the Western Mediterranean Basin from the eighteenth century to the present.
Magdalena Moorthy Kloss is a researcher at the Austrian Academy of
Sciences’ Institute for Social Anthropology specialized in Yemen, slavery,
marginalized groups, historical anthropology, and gender. She holds a Master’s
degree and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Vienna, and a
Master’s degree in anthropology and development from the London School
of Economics and Political Science. Her latest article is entitled “Eunuchs
at the Service of Yemen’s Rasūlid Dynasty (626–858/1229–1454)” and was
xvi NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
published in Der Islam (Vol. 98/1 (2021). She previously worked for the
United Nations and GIZ in Yemen and Egypt.
William Mulligan is a Professor in the School of History at UCD. He has held
visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the
Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin. He has published widely on international history
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is editor, with Maurice Bric, of A
Global History of Anti-Slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave,
2013).
Karoline Noack holds a Ph.D. and habilitation in cultural anthropology (Freie
Universität Berlin). Since 2009, she has been Professor of Anthropology of
the Americas at the University of Bonn and Director of the BASA Museum
(Bonn Collection of the Americas). Her focal points include research on social
and cultural phenomena in the Andes in the longue durée, museum and
collection research, also with “source communities.” She conducts depen-
dency research in the Inca state and is currently researching on Cochabamba
in Bolivia, a hotspot of mobilization and production strategies in the late
Inca state, within the framework of the Bonn Center of Dependency and
Slavery Studies (BCDSS), of which she is one of the deputy speakers. Her
most recent book publications, together with other colleagues, include “From
‘Bronze Rooster’ to Ekeko. Impulses for Ethnological Provenance Research in
University Collections and Museums” (2020), “Global Turns, descolonización
y museos” (2020), “Digitization of Ethnological Collections. Perspectives
from Theory and Practice” (in German) (2021), and various articles on the
above-mentioned topics.
Hans-Heinrich Nolte is Emeritus Professor of Eastern European history at
the University of Hannover. His work has focused primarily on Eastern Euro-
pean history and the history of the USSR, but Nolte is also considered a
pioneer of global history. He is the author of numerous articles and nine
monographs, including Weltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (2009) and most
recently Kurze Geschichte der Imperien (2017).
Kerstin Nowack obtained her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology of the Amer-
icas at the University of Bonn. Nowack is an independent scholar, working
on the ethnohistory of the Inca and of early colonial Peru. Her main research
interests are the politics and history of the Inca empire, war, religion, and
knowledge in the Inca imperial system, Inca elites before and after the Spanish
conquest, and sources on the Inca, on which she has published numerous arti-
cles. She is currently preparing the publication of a book about the Inca civil
war.
Hayri Gökşin Özkoray is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at the
Aix-Marseille Université (France). He deals mainly with the history of slavery
and labor in the Ottoman Empire (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries).
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xvii
ancient and medieval slaveries, revealing the dynamic, versatile, and adaptable
character of slavery to changing circumstances. Prof. Rotman is the co-editor
of the Mediterranean Historical Review.
Juliane Schiel is Associate Professor for Economic and Social History in
Late Medieval and Early Modern Times at the University of Vienna. She has
published widely on the history of slavery in the Mediterranean as well as on
the history of labor and coercion. Her work is informed by a micro historic
approach, the methods of historical semantics and global history perspectives.
Since 2019, she is chairing the COST Action CA18205 “Worlds of Related
Coercions in Work” (WORCK), assembling about 150 social and labor histo-
rians, anthropologists, and sociologists from about 40 countries worldwide
(https://www.worck.eu).
Elena Smolarz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bonn Center for Depen-
dency and Slavery Studies. As a research associate of competence network
“Crossroads Asia,” funded by the German Ministry for Education and
Research (BMBF), she conducted studies on coerced mobility and slave trade
networks in Central Asia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her
main research interests include serfdom in the Russian Empire, representa-
tions of freedom and dependency in archival documents and narrated sources
as well as transformation of autochthonous societies in Southern borderland
regions under Russian imperial influence with special focus on spatial and social
mobility.
Kostas Vlassopoulos is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the Univer-
sity of Crete and collaborating member of the Institute for Mediterranean
Studies (IMS-FORTH). He is the author of Unthinking the Greek Polis:
Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism (2007); Politics: Antiquity and its
Legacy (2009); Greeks and Barbarians (2013); ‘My whole life’: Stories from the
Daily Lives of Ancient Slaves (2020); Historicising Ancient Slavery (2021);
and Greek and Roman Slaveries (2022). He has co-edited Communities and
Networks in the Ancient Greek World (2015) and Violence and Community:
Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World (2017).
Klaus Weber wrote his Ph.D. thesis on German merchants in eighteenth-
century Atlantic trade at Hamburg University. He was a research fellow at the
National University of Ireland (Galway), at The Rothschild Archive (London)
and at the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden (Hamburg). Since
2011, he has been Professor of European Economic and Social History at
the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Among his research
interests are labor regimes and welfare regimes in modern Europe and the
Atlantic world, and the transnational connections of Central Europe’s early
modern proto-industries.
Michael Zeuske was educated at the University of Leipzig and obtained
his two German doctorates (Ph.D. and habilitation) at Leipzig in 1984 and
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CHAPTER 1
Damian A. Pargas
Introduction
Slavery has been a common—if often fluid and complex—condition in most
world societies throughout history. Only very few societies became so econom-
ically, politically, and culturally dependent upon slavery as to ultimately
develop into what Moses Finley famously dubbed “slave societies”—a cate-
gory he reserved for ancient Greece and Rome, and the plantation regions of
the Americas from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. It has been
precisely the latter societies, however, that have long dominated static popular
images and the historical literature on slavery.1 That has begun to change.
The study of global slavery has grown strongly in the last few decades, as
scholars working in several disciplines have actively cultivated broader perspec-
tives on enslavement. Not only has interest in slavery among scholars working
on the Atlantic world reached a high point, but scholars have also intensified
their study of slavery in ancient, medieval, North and sub-Saharan African,
Near Eastern, and Asian and Pacific societies. Practices of modern slavery
and human trafficking from South Asia to Europe and the Americas are also
receiving more academic attention than ever before, and are now being inte-
grated into historical paradigms of slavery. More importantly, scholars are
increasingly looking across borders—temporal, spatial, and disciplinary—to
better understand slavery and slaving throughout world history. The recent
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