The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, Ad 1420-Ad 1804

Associate Professor David Eltis; John H Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History Stanley L Engerman
Cambridge University Press
 9780521840682
0-521-84068-6

Volume 3 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery is a collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labor in Africa, Asia, and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlantic.

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World and the formal creation of the new nation of Haiti. The authors, well-known authorities in their respective fields, place slavery in the foreground of the collection but also examine other types of coerced labor. Essays are organized both nationally and thematically and cover the major empires, coerced migration, slave resistance, gender, demography, law, and the economic significance of coerced labor. Non-scholars will also find this volume accessible.