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Index
Cover
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Contents
Introduction: The Constituent Elements of Slavery
I: The Internal Relations of Slavery
1. The Idiom of Power
2. Authority, Alienation, and Social Death
3. Honor and Degradation
II: Slavery as an Institutional Process
4. Enslavement of “Free” Persons
5. Enslavement by Birth
6. The Acquisition of Slaves
7. The Condition of Slavery
8. Manumission: Its Meaning and Modes
9. The Status of Freed Persons
10. Patterns of Manumission
III: The Dialectics of Slavery
11. The Ultimate Slave
12. Slavery as Human Parasitism
Appendix A: Note on Statistical Methods
Appendix B: Slaveholding Societies in the Murdock World Sample
Appendix C: The Large-Scale Slave Systems
Notes
Index
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