Historicising Ancient Slavery

A new framework for studying slaves and slavery in ancient societies Offers a new theoretical framework for the study of ancient slaveryEmploys a global historical perspectiveFocuses on the agency of ancient slavesExplores the link between slavery and historical change in antiquityExamines the multiple contradictions within slave systemsExamines slavery from an economic, social, political and cultural perspective Informed by the global history of slavery, Kostas Vlassopoulos avoids traditional a