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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Analytical Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Property: Race, Gender and Class -- Chapter 2 Locke and Winstanley: Land and Labour -- Chapter 3 Godwin and Bentham: The Shadow of Slavery and Sweat -- Chapter 4 Hegel and Marx: Civil and Human Society -- Chapter 5 Liberalism -- Chapter 6 Socialism -- Chapter 7 Conservatism -- Chapter 8 Slaveries and Property: Freedom and Belonging -- Chapter 9 Gender and Property: Mothers of Pearl -- Chapter 10 Lost Lands: Property and Postcolonialism -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index

Critically interrogates the history and politics of slavery, from classical Greek philosophy to todayWhat makes a slave a slave? What does it mean to think about slavery as a political question? This book examines slavery and freedom as founding narratives of the liberal subject and of modernity. Laura Brace asks what happens when we try to bring slaves back into history, and into the history of political thought in particular. Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, the book assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to consider the limitations of 'new slavery' discourse.Key FeaturesAnalyses the dominant liberal discourse on slavery, from Aristotle to Nietzsche Examines the connections between 'old' and 'new' slavery Explores the role of concepts of power, violence, domination and subordination, issues of economic exploitation and the organization of labour and the influence of race and gender

Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to consider the limitations of 'new slavery' discourse.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Reclaiming Sovereignty -- The traditional concept -- International perspectives -- Extending the concept -- Reference -- PART 1: TRADITIONAL PERSPECTIVES: SOVEREIGNTY AND THE STATE -- Chapter 1: Is it Time to Detach Sovereignty from the State? -- The ambiguity problem -- The two faces of the state -- James's no-nonsense realism -- Form without content? -- The problem of the state -- Sovereignty and the modern state -- Sovereignty and meaning -- A poststatist view of sovereignty -- References

Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to consider the limitations of 'new slavery' discourse.