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In the late seventeenth century, Virginia colonist Edmund Scarburgh and his mistress Ann Toft owned and sold many Native laborers as indentured servants and ...

Public servants are not ordinary employees. Their relationship to the modern state is special. According to prevailing opinion, this special relation ...

The Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies at Bonn University (BCDSS) and the Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS) are inviting ...

Sinah Kloß is research group leader of the BCDSS research group "Marking Power: Embodied Dependencies, Haptic Regimes and Body Modification". Her research ...

Béla Bodó is associate professor for Eastern European History at the University of Bonn as well as investigator at the BCDSS. His current research revolves ...

The existence of slavery among the Maya is asserted in almost all publications, but no systematic effort has yet been undertaken to investigate slavery and ...

This lecture explores to what extent one can discern a concept of personal freedom as a basic right in the first century CE. Philo's tractate "On the Freedom ...

Marion Gymnich is professor for English Literature and Culture at the University of Bonn as well as BCDSS Co-Speaker and principal investigator. In her ...