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The encyclopedia contains 100 illustrations, with maps accompanying core essays involving specific geographic locations. Successive civilizations are portrayed as they sought to dominate each other for riches and glory, the conquered often being forced into slavery by their aggressors. This encyclopedia delves into the practice of forced labor in the great empires and kingdoms of China, Persia, South America, India, and others. Oppression by the ruling classes of the lower classes is chronicled in Japanese serfdom and the European manor system. Western expansion prospered on a foundation of institutionalized slavery, causing the 400-year African Diaspora.
Slavery in world history is chronicled via such in-depth topics as Slavery in the Bible, Buddhism and Slavery, Slave Folklore, Historiography of Slavery, Japanese Enslavement of Koreans, Plato's Laws and Slavery, and Women and Slavery.
The encyclopedia draws upon the perspectives of renowned philosophers and political leaders, including Plato, Aristotle, and Karl Marx. Biographies portray the lives of notable figures, for example, the remarkable life of the fugitive slave, nurse, spy, and abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1820-1913); Mali's ninth ruler, Mansa Musa (d. 1337); and the early ruler of Kievan Russia, Iaroslav the Wise (fl. 1016-1054).
This impressive work presents 700 topics of world slavery in 500- to 1,500-word entries that are extensively cross-referenced with bibliographical citations for further research.
Junius P. Rodriguez, PhD, is associate professor of history at Eureka College, Eureka, IL. His published works include ABC-CLIO's award-winningThe Louisiana Purchase and Chronology of World Slavery.
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