A Historical Guide to World Slavery

This volume presents an authoritative and accessible overview of slavery and slaving in world history, with an introductory essay by David Brion Davis, Pulitzer Prize-winning Oxford author and eminent historian. Informed by comparative research and supported by detailed bibliographies, more than one hundred topical and geographical essays span the breadth of current scholarship. The range of coverage makes the work both an indispensable survey of established historiography and an invaluable guide to contemporary issues and concerns in this field of study.