This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa’s indigenous systems of slavery on its political and … develop a theory to account for this based on the framework proposed by North et al. (2009), where indigenous slavery may have … indigenous slavery is robustly and negatively associated with the quality of governance and with current income levels. …

about the morality or long-term viability of slavery. It is unclear, however, whether such expressions of anti-slavery … that there was a change in elite rhetoric about slavery, initiated by Whig politicians in the mid-1830s seeking a campaign … issue in the South, in which anti-slavery rhetoric became linked to attempts by abolitionists to foment slave unrest, making …

What sustains slavery, and why at critical junctures—the fall of the Roman Empire, the early modern expansion of … between free and servile labor? Why has slavery usually been ended by legal prohibition rather than voluntary abandonment? An … extremely simple dual-equilibrium picture can illuminate how, when, and with whose support slavery is introduced or abolished …

The article analyzes some recent episodes concerning slavery-like practices and human trafficking reports. The problem … the international covenants concerning slavery and its unethical aspects, a sociological explanation of the phenomenon … environment, we will try to understand the «social functions» of slavery today. The structure of modern society is the result of a …