This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule. It focuses on the northern Islamic regimes’ trea

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

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Nativ

Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scho

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