Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern (Signed)

[Association copy, inscribed by Enrico Dal Lago to noted historian Philip D. Morgan on front end page.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Contains Philip Morgan's personal notes. xiii, 375 p., ill., 23 cm. *Autographed by author.* "A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labor in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery that characterized the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has inherited from the ancient in regard to ideology and practice of slavery; and also how many of the issues and problems related to the latter seem to have been fundamentally similar across time and space." - Cambridge University Press From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).…