Slavery as an industrial system

About this eBook

Author

Nieboer, H. J. (Herman Jeremias), 1873-1920

Title

Slavery as an industrial system : Ethnological researches.

Original Publication

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1910.

Credits

Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HT: Social sciences: Communities, Classes, Races

Subject

Slavery

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74463

Release Date

September 23, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Slavery — AS AN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM — ETHNOLOGICAL RESEARCHES
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
5. 5.DESCRIPTIVE.
6. 6.DEFINITION AND DISTINCTION FROM KINDRED PHENOMENA. — § 1. Ordinary meaning of the term “slavery”. — § 2. Use of the term “slavery” in theoretical literature. — § 3. Definition for scientific use. — § 4. Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. — I. Wives in an abject condition. — § 5. Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. — II. Children subjected to the head of the family. — § 6. Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. — III. Members of a society in their relation to the head of the community. — § 7. Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. — § 8. Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. — § 9. Pawns or debtor-slaves.
7. 7.GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY. — § 1. Introduction. — § 2. North America. — 1. Eskimos. — 2. Nootka group. — 3. Tinneh group. — 4. Algonquin group. — 5. Iroquois group. — 6. Choctaw-Muskoghe group and neighbouring tribes. — 7. Dacotah group. — 8. Oregon group. — 9. Californians. — 10. New Mexicans. — § 3. Central and South America. — § 4. Australia. — § 5. Melanesia. — § 6. Polynesia. — § 7. Micronesia. — § 8. Malay Archipelago. — I. Malay Peninsula. — II. Sumatra and neighbouring islands. — III. Borneo. — IV. Celebes. — V. Little Sunda Islands and Moluccas. — VI. Philippines. — VII. Madagascar. — § 9. Indo-Chinese Peninsula. — § 10. India, Afghanistan, Himalaya. — § 11. Central Asia. — § 12. Siberia. — § 13. Caucasus. — § 14. Arabia. — § 15. Africa. A. Bantu tribes. — 1. Caffres. — 2. South-West Bantus. — 3. East-African Bantus. — 4. Tribes on the Congo and in Lower Guinea. — 5. Natives of the Wahuma states. — § 16. Africa. B. Soudan Negroes. — 1. Coast of Guinea. — 2. Haussa states. — 3. Central Soudan. — 4. Upper Nile. — 5. Appendix. African Islands. — § 17. Africa. C. Light-coloured South Africans and African pigmy-tribes. — § 18. Africa. D. Hamitic peoples. — § 19. Recapitulation.
8. 8.THEORETICAL.
9. 9.METHOD AND DIVISIONS. — § 1. Method. — § 2. Distinction of economic groups. — § 3. Hunting and fishing, pastoral, and agricultural tribes in the several geographical districts.
10. 10.HUNTERS AND FISHERS. — § 1. Why slaves are not of much use to hunters. — § 2. The slave-keeping tribes of the Pacific Coast of North America. — § 3. Experimentum crucis : Australia . — § 4. Experimentum crucis : Central North America . — § 5. Experimentum crucis : Eskimos . — § 6. Conclusion. — Recapitulation.
11. 11.PASTORAL TRIBES. — § 1. Capital and labour among pastoral tribes. — § 2. Slavery among pastoral tribes. — Recapitulation of the causes we have found up to the present.
12. 12.AGRICULTURAL TRIBES. — § 1. Numbers of positive and negative cases in the three agricultural groups. — First agricultural group 1 . — Second agricultural group. — Third agricultural group. — § 2. Development of agriculture and development of slavery. — § 3. Capital and labour among agricultural tribes. — § 4. Land and population. — § 5. Land tenure in Polynesia. — § 6. Land tenure in Micronesia. — § 7. Land tenure in Melanesia. — § 8. Landlords, tenants and labourers in Oceania. — § 9. Transition from serfdom to freedom in Western Europe. — § 10. The rural classes of medieval England. — § 11. The rural classes of medieval Germany. — § 12. Open and closed resources. — § 13. Condition of women. — § 14. Commerce. — § 15. Slaves employed in warfare. — § 16. Slaves kept as a luxury. — § 17. Other secondary internal causes. — § 18. External causes, especially the slave-trade. Recapitulation.
13. 13.CONCLUSION. — § 1. General survey. — General recapitulation. — § 2. Outlines of a further investigation of the early history of slavery. — I. The different ways in which people become slaves. — II. The different ways in which people cease to be slaves. — III. Treatment of slaves by their masters. — IV. Legal status of slaves 20 . — V. The attitude of public opinion towards slaves. — VI. Different kinds of slaves. — VII. Slave labour. — VIII. Serfdom. — IX. Number of slaves. — X. Happiness or unhappiness of slaves. — XI. Consequences of slavery. — XII. Development of slavery.
14. 14.LIST OF AUTHORITIES.
15. 15.SUBJECT-INDEX.
16. 16.Table of Contents
17. 17.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — Corrections

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