Agricultural Slavery in the Northern Colonies and in Classical Athens
Some Comparisons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent J Rosivach (Fairfield University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 551-567 |
| Publication date | 1993-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500018582 |
| OpenAlex | W2157860260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 26 |
Our view of agricultural slavery tends to be dominated by the plantation model familiar from modern slavery, especially in the Caribbean and the Cotton Kingdom of the southern United States. The well-documented plantation model is in fact a useful comparative tool which, when properly used, can advance our understanding of the less well-documented Roman latifundist slavery. This plantation model is all but irrelevant, however, to the very different slave regime of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuriesb.c., and one must look elsewhere for a similarly well-documented model to use for the purpose of comparative analysis of Athenian agricultural slavery. Such a model, I would suggest, can be found in the agricultural slave regime of the northern North American colonies (New England and, to a lesser degree, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) in the second half of the eighteenth century. As we shall see, this less familiar regime of slavery in these colonies displays striking similarities to the agricultural slave regime of classical Athens. We will examine some of these similarities and indicate, by illustration, some of the ways by which a knowledge of northern agricultural slavery can be of use to the student of Athenian social history
Agriculture · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History
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| Unique citing works | 37 |
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| Citations per year | 1,23 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2024 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |