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Introduction. Slavery and society in global perspective /
Noel Lenski
and
Catherine M. Cameron --
Framing the question: what is a slave society? /
Noel Lenski.

Part one.
Ancient and late antique Western societies.
Ancient Greece as a 'slave society' /
Peter Hunt --
Roman slavery and the idea of 'slave society' /
Kyle Harper
and
Walter Scheidel --
Ancient slaveries and modern ideology /
Noel Lenski. .

Part two. Non-Western small-scale societies. The nature of slavery in small-scale societies / Catherine Cameron -- Native American slavery in global context / Christina Snyder -- Slavery as structure, process, or lived experience, or why slave societies existed in pre-contact tropical America / Fern...

Part three. Modern Western societies. The colonial Brazilian 'slave society': potentialities, limits and challenges to an interpretative model inspired by Moses Finley / Aldair Carlos Rodrigues -- What is a slave society?: the American South / Robert Gudmestad -- Islands of slavery: archaeology and...

Part four. Non-Western state societies. Was nineteenth-century Eastern Arabia a 'slave society'? / Matthew S. Hopper -- Slavery and society in East Africa, Oman, and the Persian Gulf / Bernard K. Freamon -- Ottoman and Islamic societies: were they 'slave societies'? / Ehud Toledano -- A microhistori...