Historicising ancient slavery /Kostas Vlassopoulos.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Historiographies -- The Formation of the Dominant Paradigm in the Study of Ancient Slavery -- The Global Study of Slavery -- Recent Developments in the Study of Ancient Slavery -- What Is Slavery? -- An Instructive Case: Early Medieval Slavery and `Serfdom' ; The Conceptual Systems of Slavery -- Slaving Strategies and Contexts -- Slaving Strategies -- Slaving Contexts -- Slave-making -- Enslaved Persons -- Identification Modes and Forms of Relationships -- Categorisation, Self-understanding and Groupness -- Dialectical Relationships -- The Master-Slave Relationship -- The Free-Slave Relationship -- The Relationships Within Slave Communities -- The Slave View of Slavery: Slave Hopes and the Reality of Slavery -- Modalities of Slavery -- Exploring Slave Hopes under Slavery -- The Slave Hope for Freedom -- Slaving in Space and Time -- Epichoric Systems of Slaving -- Societies with Slaves and Slave Societies -- Accounting for Change -- The Agency of Enslaved Persons and Historical Change -- Conclusions.

"Informed by the global history of slavery, Kostas Vlassopoulos avoids traditional approaches to slavery as a static institution and instead explores the diverse strategies and various contexts in which it was employed. In doing so he offers a new historicist approach to the study of slave identity and the various networks and communities that slaves created or participated in."--

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