Enslavement for Manumission: The Creation of Byzantine 'Private Subjects'.
The article challenges current perspectives on slavery as 'unfreedom' and proposes to examine the enslaved within a socio-political dynamics of power relations. An analysis of four Byzantine documents from the eleventh century and the place they accorded to slaves and manumitted slaves reveals the w...
| Publicado en: | Slavery & Abolition Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 638 - 658 |
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Dec2023
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