Speaking of Slavery Color Ethnicity and Human Bondage in Italy 1st edition by Steven Epstein 1501725142 9781501725142

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ISBN-10 :  1501725142 

ISBN-13 :  9781501725142

Author:  Steven A. Epstein 

For Epstein, language is crucial to understanding slavery, for it preserves the hidden conditions of that institution. He begins his book by discussing the words used to conduct and describe slavery in Italy, from pertinent definitions given in early dictionaries, to the naming of slaves by their masters, to the ways in which bondage has been depicted by Italian writers from Dante to Primo Levi and Antonio Gramsci. Epstein then probes Italian legal history, tracing the evolution of contracts for buying, selling, renting, and freeing people. Next he considers the behaviors of slaves and slave owners as a means of exploring how concepts of liberty and morality changed over time. He concludes by analyzing the language of the market, where medieval Italians used words to fix the prices of people they bought and sold.

Speaking of Slavery Color Ethnicity and Human Bondage in Italy 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 The Language of Slavery
Chapter 2 The Language of the Law
Chapter 3 The Human Behavior of Slavery
Chapter 4 The Language of the Great Economy

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