The legal understanding of slavery : from the historical to the contemporary / edited by Jean Allain.
2012
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Title
The legal understanding of slavery : from the historical to the contemporary / edited by Jean Allain.
Published
Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Printed
2014 Reprint.
Call Number
K3267 .L44 2012
ISBN
9780199660469 (hbk.)
0199660468 (hbk.)
0199660468 (hbk.)
Description
xviii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)798407243
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors
xv
Introduction
1
Section 1
Historical Readings Of The Law Of Slavery
1.
The Nature of Slavery, Antony Honore
9
2.
The Law of Slavery and the European Ius Commune, R.H. Helmholz
17
A.
The Corpus Iuris Civilis and the Corpus Iuris Canonici
19
B.
The Problem of Definition
21
C.
Legal Developments
23
D.
Conclusion
37
3.
Definitions and Conceptions of Slave Ownership in Islamic Law, Bernard K. Freamon
40
A.
The Emergence of an Islamic Approach to Slavery
41
B.
The Islamic Legal System and its Approach to Property and Ownership
43
C.
Slavery in the Qur'an
49
D.
Slavery and Slave Ownership in the Sunnah
52
E.
The Fiqh of Slavery
53
F.
Conclusion
59
4.
The Definition of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Thinking: Not the True Roman Slavery, John W. Cairns
61
A.
Roman, Early Modern, and Modern Definitions
61
B.
Eighteenth-Century Cases and the Meaning of `Slavery'
68
C.
Roman Law and Scottish Cases
72
D.
Judicial Opinions and the Nature of Slavery
78
E.
Understanding the Modern Law on Slavery
81
F.
Conclusion
83
5.
From Consensus to Consensus: Slavery in International Law, Seymour Drescher
85
A.
Before Antislavery and Abolitionism
85
B.
Abolition and International Law
90
C.
Conclusion
101
Section 2
The American Experience: Blurred Boundaries Of Slavery
6.
Slavery in the United States: Persons or Property?, Paul Finkelman
105
A.
Slavery, the Common Law, and Colonial America
105
B.
Slaves as Persons and Property in the Revolution
115
C.
Slavery and the Constitutional Convention
116
D.
Implementing the Constitution: The African Slave Trade
120
E.
The Supreme Court and Africans as People and Property: The Antelope Case
122
F.
Fugitive Slaves as Property
124
G.
Dred Scott and Race: The Final Definition of the Slave
127
H.
Conclusion: Emancipation and the Definition of Slaves
130
7.
To Indent Oneself: Ownership, Contracts, and Consent in Antebellum Illinois, Allison Mileo Gorsuch
135
A.
Slave or Servant? The Wrong Legal Question
136
B.
Creating the Statutory Framework
138
C.
Forming Contracts
140
D.
Transfer and Sale of Contracts
142
E.
Performance, Consideration, and Consent
144
F.
Challenging Consent After Statehood
148
G.
Conclusion
150
8.
Under Color of Law: Siliadin v France and the Dynamics of Enslavement in Historical Perspective, Rebecca J. Scott
152
A.
The Dynamics of Enslavement: Santiago and New Orleans
156
B.
The Case of Adelaide Metayer/Durand
157
C.
Enslavement as Process
161
D.
Conclusion
162
9.
The Rise, Persistence, and Slow Decline of Legal Slavery, Stanley L. Engerman
165
A.
The Voices of Slaves
166
B.
Ending Legal Slavery
171
C.
Continued Emancipation
173
D.
Conclusion
176
10.
The Abolition of Slavery in the United States: Historical Context and its Contemporary Application, William M. Carter, Jr.
177
A.
Drafting the Thirteenth Amendment
177
B.
Reconstruction and the End of Reconstruction
182
C.
The Thirteenth Amendment and Contemporary Slavery
186
D.
Governmental and Private Action in Support of Slavery
191
E.
Redressing the Legacy of Slavery
194
F.
Conclusion
196
Section 3
The 1926 Definition in Context
11.
The Legal Definition of Slavery into the Twenty-First Century, Jean Allain
199
A.
1922-1956---Establishing the Legal Regime
200
B.
1966-1998---The Legal Regime Gives Way
209
C.
1998 Onwards---Engaging the Legal Regime
214
D.
Conclusion
218
12.
Seeking to Understand the Definition of Slavery, Robin Hickey
220
A.
The Drafting Process
221
B.
Describing the `Incidents of Ownership'
223
C.
Ownership and Modern Slavery
232
D.
Understanding Article 1
236
E.
Conclusion
241
13.
The Concept of Property and the Concept of Slavery, J.E. Penner
242
A.
The `Powers Attaching to a Right of Ownership'
243
B.
What is Slavery?
244
C.
Interpreting the Convention Definition
248
14.
Defining Slavery in all its Forms: Historical Inquiry as Contemporary Instruction, Joel Quirk
253
A.
Defining Slavery in all its Forms
256
B.
Historical Inquiry as Contemporary Instruction
265
C.
Conclusion
276
Section 4
Contemporary Slavery
15.
Slavery in its Contemporary Manifestations, Kevin Bales
281
A.
Defining Slavery
281
B.
Estimating the Extent of Slavery
286
C.
Slavery and the Global Economy
288
D.
Modern Slavery in the UK and the US
299
E.
The Moral Economy of Slavery
300
F.
Conclusion
303
16.
Contemporary International Legal Norms on Slavery: Problems of Judicial Interpretation and Application, Holly Cullen
304
A.
Grappling with the 1926 Definition
305
B.
Why Control is Relevant: The Idea of Slavery as Disability
318
C.
How These Decisions Could Have Used the `Powers Attaching to the Right of Ownership' More Explicitly
319
D.
Conclusion
320
17.
Trafficking, Gender and Slavery: Past and Present, Orlando Patterson
322
A.
The Nature of Slavery: Traditional and Modern
323
B.
Kevin Bales's View of `Old' and `New Slavery': A Critique
329
C.
The Gendered Nature of Trafficking and Slavery in Traditional Societies
335
D.
Trafficking, Gender and Slavery Today
343
E.
Sexual Slavery Today
353
F.
Conclusion
359
18.
Professor Kevin Bales's Response to Professor Orlando Patterson
360
19.
Rejoinder: Professor Orlando Patterson's Response to Professor Kevin Bales
373
Appendices
375
2012 Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery
375
1926 Slavery Convention
381
1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
386
Index
393