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How did Roman law perceive the distinction between freedom and enslavement? While initially stark, this division was permeable, allowing individuals to ...

How important is the little-known return of severely ill ex-inmates from Stalinist penitentiaries (1930-1953) compared to the widely known transfers within the ...

This lecture examines the ways in which Christianity came to define the debate over slavery and freedom – and the nature of the free black subject – in the ...

The study of captivity in the early modern Mediterranean has largely relied on European and Ottoman sources. The Arabic archive furnishes further information ...

How did ancient gender discourse shape the roles and agency of women and men in mobility, and what factors influenced their ability to shape their own mobility ...

How did the life and work of Johannes Manissadjian, a successful scientist during the Armenian genocide, contribute to understanding the disappearance and ...

Dr. Nitin Varma will unwrap biographies of servitude, drawing upon a range of legal and ego documents from nineteenth-century northern India. Based on a ...

The passage of the International Labour Organization’s Forced Labour Convention (No. 29) in 1930 was a momentous event in global labor history, signaling an ...

The vogue for "ethnicity" in many fields of historical study has reified a concept for which there is little direct evidence in the historical record before ...

The lecture will discuss how the construction of open-source relational databases has altered the scholarly study of slavery. Once it was thought that there ...