Slavery as an industrial system

	PREFACE.				V
	CONTENTS.				VII
	GENERAL INTRODUCTION.				XV
I.	DESCRIPTIVE.				1
	I.	DEFINITION AND DISTINCTION FROM KINDRED PHENOMENA.			3
		1.	Ordinary meaning of the term “slavery”.		3
		2.	Use of the term “slavery” in theoretical literature.		6
		3.	Definition for scientific use.		7
		4.	Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. I. Wives in an abject condition.		9
		5.	Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. II. Children subjected to the head of the family.		26
		6.	Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. III. Members of a society in their relation to the head of the community.		30
		7.	Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena.		33
		8.	Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena.		34
		9.	Pawns or debtor-slaves.		39
	II.	GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.			41
		1.	Introduction.		41
		2.	North America.		47
			1.	Eskimos.	47
			2.	Nootka group.	49
			3.	Tinneh group.	50
			4.	Algonquin group.	52
			5.	Iroquois group.	55
			6.	Choctaw-Muskoghe group and neighbouring tribes.	56
			7.	Dacotah group.	58
			8.	Oregon group.	59
			9.	Californians.	61
			10.	New Mexicans.	63
		3.	Central and South America.		70
		4.	Australia.		83
		5.	Melanesia.		85
		6.	Polynesia.		97
		7.	Micronesia.		102
		8.	Malay Archipelago.		110
			I.	Malay Peninsula.	110
			II.	Sumatra and neighbouring islands.	110
			III.	Borneo.	112
			IV.	Celebes.	113
			V.	Little Sunda Islands and Moluccas.	114
			VI.	Philippines.	115
			VII.	Madagascar.	117
		9.	Indo-Chinese Peninsula.		123
		10.	India, Afghanistan, Himalaya.		124
		11.	Central Asia.		127
		12.	Siberia.		132
		13.	Caucasus.		136
		14.	Arabia.		138
		15.	Africa. A. Bantu tribes.		138
			1.	Caffres.	138
			2.	South-West Bantus.	144
			3.	East-African Bantus.	147
			4.	Tribes on the Congo and in Lower Guinea.	149
			5.	Natives of the Wahuma states.	152
		16.	Africa. B. Soudan Negroes.		155
			1.	Coast of Guinea.	155
			2.	Haussa states.	157
			3.	Central Soudan.	157
			4.	Upper Nile.	157
			5.	Appendix. African Islands.	159
		17.	Africa. C. Light-coloured South Africans and African pigmy-tribes.		161
		18.	Africa. D. Hamitic peoples.		163
		19.	Recapitulation.		165
II.	THEORETICAL.				167
	I.	METHOD AND DIVISIONS.			169
		1.	Method.		169
		2.	Distinction of economic groups.		174
		3.	Hunting and fishing, pastoral, and agricultural tribes in the several geographical districts.		179
	II.	HUNTERS AND FISHERS.			190
		1.	Why slaves are not of much use to hunters.		190
		2.	The slave-keeping tribes of the Pacific Coast of North America.		201
		3.	Experimentum crucis: Australia.		227
		4.	Experimentum crucis: Central North America.		236
		5.	Experimentum crucis: Eskimos.		246
		6.	Conclusion.		255
	III.	PASTORAL TRIBES.			262
		1.	Capital and labour among pastoral tribes.		262
		2.	Slavery among pastoral tribes.		281
	IV.	AGRICULTURAL TRIBES.			292
		1.	Numbers of positive and negative cases in the three agricultural groups.		292
		2.	Development of agriculture and development of slavery.		293
		3.	Capital and labour among agricultural tribes.		297
		4.	Land and population.		302
		5.	Land tenure in Polynesia.		314
		6.	Land tenure in Micronesia.		321
		7.	Land tenure in Melanesia.		324
		8.	Landlords, tenants and labourers in Oceania.		328
		9.	Transition from serfdom to freedom in Western Europe.		346
		10.	The rural classes of medieval England.		362
		11.	The rural classes of medieval Germany.		373
		12.	Open and closed resources.		383
		13.	Condition of women.		388
		14.	Commerce.		393
		15.	Slaves employed in warfare.		398
		16.	Slaves kept as a luxury.		403
		17.	Other secondary internal causes.		406
		18.	External causes, especially the slave-trade. Recapitulation.		407
	V.	CONCLUSION.			417
		1.	General survey.		417
		2.	Outlines of a further investigation of the early history of slavery.		427
			I.	The different ways in which people become slaves.	428
			II.	The different ways in which people cease to be slaves.	430
			III.	Treatment of slaves by their masters.	431
			IV.	Legal status of slaves.	432
			V.	The attitude of public opinion towards slaves.	433
			VI.	Different kinds of slaves.	433
			VII.	Slave labour.	433
			VIII.	Serfdom.	434
			IX.	Number of slaves.	434
			X.	Happiness or unhappiness of slaves.	434
			XI.	Consequences of slavery.	435
			XII.	Development of slavery.	437
	LIST OF AUTHORITIES.				441
	SUBJECT-INDEX.				467

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Title:	Slavery as an industrial system
Author:	Herman Jeremias Nieboer (1873–1920)	Info https://viaf.org/viaf/76686342/
File generation date:	2024-09-23 09:00:48 UTC
Language:	English
Original publication date:	1910

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