The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

In this volume, leading scholars provide essay-length coverage of slavery in a wide variety of medieval contexts around the globe.

Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having exis

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in Engli

In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the