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Chapter 18 - Slavery in the Carolingian Empire

from Part V - Africa, the Americas, and Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2021

By
Alice Rio
Edited by
Craig Perry ,
David Eltis ,
Stanley L. Engerman  and
David Richardson
Craig Perry
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
David Eltis
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
Stanley L. Engerman
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, New York
David Richardson
Affiliation:
University of Hull
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Summary

This chapter looks at the varieties and trajectories of unfree status in the Carolingian empire. Rather than seeing it only as a point of transition from A (Roman slavery) to B (medieval serfdom), it aims to consider the practical logic of unfreedom as a category in the early medieval West, in a variety of different contexts: enslavement (the slave trade, self-sale, penal enslavement), household slavery, on great estates, and in law-making.

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slaveryserfdomCarolingianslawlegal status
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The Cambridge World History of Slavery , pp. 431 - 452
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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