On Human Bondage

List of Figures and Tables vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Preface xii

Introduction 1
John Bodel and Walter Scheidel

1 Slavery and Personhood in the Neo?-Assyrian Empire 15
Heather D. Baker

2 Orlando Patterson, Property, and Ancient Slavery: The Definitional Problem Revisited 31
David M. Lewis

3 Slaves or Serfs?: Patterson on the Thetes and Helots of Ancient Greece 55
Peter Hunt

4 Death and Social Death in Ancient Rome 81
John Bodel

5 Freedom, Slavery, and Female Sexual Honor in Antiquity 109
Kyle Harper

6 Becoming Almost Somebody: Manumission and its Complications in the Early Han Empire 122
Anthony Barbieri?-Low

7 Ottoman Elite Enslavement and "Social Death" 136
Ehud R. Toledano

8 The Locked Box in Slavery and Social Death 151
Indrani Chatterjee

9 Honor and Dishonor in the Slavery of Colonial Brazil 167
Junia Ferreira Furtado

10 (Child) Slavery in Africa as Social Death?: Reponses Past and Present 193
Sandra E. Greene

11 Slavery and Freedom in Small?-Scale Societies 210
Catherine M. Cameron

12 Rituals of Enslavement and Markers of Servitude: Orlando Patterson in the American Tropics 226
Fernando Santos?-Granero

13 Slavery from Rome to Medieval Europe and Beyond: Words, Things, and Genomes 249
Michael McCormick

14 Revisiting Slavery, Property, and Social Death 265
Orlando Patterson

Index 297

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Orlando Patterson; social death; natal alienation; manumission; enslavement; slavery; servitude; slave lives