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Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Ancients & Moderns)

Page duBois
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Description:"Life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness" is perhaps the most famous phrase in the American Declaration of Independence. Th Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French concept of "liberte, egalite, fraternity ". Both ideas incarnate a notion of freedom as inalienable right that in the modern world we expect to take for granted. In the ancient world, by contrast, the concepts of freedom & equality had little purchase. Athenians, Spartans & Romans all possessed slaves or helots (unfree bondsmen). Society was unequal at every stratum. Why, then, if modern society abominates slavery, does what antiquity thought about serfdom matter today? Page duBois shows that slavery, far from being extinct, is alive & well in the contemporary era. Slaves are associated not just with the Colosseum of ancient Rome & films depicting ancient slaves, but also with Californian labor factories & S. Asian sweatshops, while young women & children appear increasingly vulnerable to sexual trafficking. Juxtaposing such modern experiences of bondage (economic or sexual) with slavery in antiquity, the author explores the writings on the subject of Aristotle, Plautus, Terence & Aristophanes. She also examines the case of Spartacus, leader of a Roman slave rebellion, & relates ancient notions of liberation to the all-too-common immigrant experience of enslavement to a globalized world of rampant corporatism & exploitative capitalism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Ancients & Moderns). To get started finding Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Ancients & Moderns), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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166
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0195380851

Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Ancients & Moderns)

Page duBois
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: "Life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness" is perhaps the most famous phrase in the American Declaration of Independence. Th Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French concept of "liberte, egalite, fraternity ". Both ideas incarnate a notion of freedom as inalienable right that in the modern world we expect to take for granted. In the ancient world, by contrast, the concepts of freedom & equality had little purchase. Athenians, Spartans & Romans all possessed slaves or helots (unfree bondsmen). Society was unequal at every stratum. Why, then, if modern society abominates slavery, does what antiquity thought about serfdom matter today? Page duBois shows that slavery, far from being extinct, is alive & well in the contemporary era. Slaves are associated not just with the Colosseum of ancient Rome & films depicting ancient slaves, but also with Californian labor factories & S. Asian sweatshops, while young women & children appear increasingly vulnerable to sexual trafficking. Juxtaposing such modern experiences of bondage (economic or sexual) with slavery in antiquity, the author explores the writings on the subject of Aristotle, Plautus, Terence & Aristophanes. She also examines the case of Spartacus, leader of a Roman slave rebellion, & relates ancient notions of liberation to the all-too-common immigrant experience of enslavement to a globalized world of rampant corporatism & exploitative capitalism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Ancients & Moderns). To get started finding Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Ancients & Moderns), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
166
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Oxford University Press (NYC)
Release
—
ISBN
0195380851

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