POSTPONED Book Launch and Discussion

We regret to inform you that this event had to be postponed. We will share the new date shortly! We hope you can join us then!

We invite our authors, Prof. Dr. Michael Zeuske & Prof. Dr. Christoph Witzenrath, to present their respective publications and engage with the content of each other's book in a joint presentation and discussion.

The De Gruyter book series of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies holds publications that examine different phenomena of slavery and other forms of strong asymmetrical dependencies in societies. The series follows the BCDSS research agenda in going beyond the dichotomy of slavery versus freedom. It proposes a new key concept, strong asymmetrical dependency, which covers all forms of bondage across time and space. This includes debt bondage, convict labor, tributary labor, servitude, serfdom, and domestic work, as well as forms of wage labor and various types of patronage.