The Legal Understanding of Slavery

Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery Introduction Section 1: Historical Readings of the Law of Slavery 1: Antony Honoré: The Nature of Slavery 2: Richard Helmholz: The Law of Slavery in European ius commune 3: Bernard Freamon: Definition and Conceptions of Slave Ownership in Islamic Law 4: John Cairns: The Definition of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Thinking: Not the True Roman Slavery 5: Seymour Drescher: From Consensus to Consensus: Slavery in International Law Section 2: The American Experience: Blurred Boundaries of Slavery 6: Paul Finkelman: Slavery in the United States: Persons or Property?, 7: Allison Mileo Gorsuch: To Indent Oneself: Ownership, Contracts, and Consent in Antebellum Illinois 8: Rebecca Scott: Under Color of Law: Siliadin v. France and the Dynamics of Enslavement in Historical Perspective 9: Stanley Engerman: The Rise, Persistence, and Slow Decline of Legal Slavery 10: William M. Carter, Jr.: The Abolition of Slavery in the United States: Historical Context and its Contemporary Application Section 3: The 1926 Definition in Context 11: Jean Allain: The Definition of Slavery into the Twenty-First Century 12: Robin Hickey: Seeking to Understand the Definition of Slavery 13: J. E. Penner: The Concept of Property and the Concept of Slavery 14: Joel Quirk: Defining Slavery in all its Forms: Historical Inquiry as Contemporary Instruction Section 4: Contemporary Slavery 15: Kevin Bales: Slavery in its Contemporary Manifestations 16: Holly Cullen: Contemporary International Legal Norms on Slavery: Problems of Judicial Interpretation and Application 17: Orlando Patterson: Trafficking, Gender, and Slavery: Past and Present 18: Professor Kevin Bales' Response to Professor Orlando Patterson 19: Professor Patterson Rejoiner: A Response to Professor Kevin Bales Appendices 1926 Slavery Convention 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery