Working classes in modern Europe, condition of, [420]–422.

Table of Contents

[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 geographicaldistricts.][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