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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.

This article explores the British anti-slavery writings of the mid- to late 18th century, and the meanings which they gave to the idea of owning a property in the person. It addresses the construction of a particular moral and political landscape where freedom was understood as both a kind of property and as non-domination, and slavery was constructed as a form of theft, and as the exercise of arbitrary power. This created a complex moral space, where possession, commerce, savagery, tyranny and the emergence of race were all caught up with each other and entangled with the concept of consent. The article concludes with the suggestion that our current understandings of slavery continue to be informed by our notions of contract and consent, and so by conceptions of freedom and ownership that take us back to the tensions and debates of the 18th century.

This article looks at questions of politeness, conduct and civility in the 18th century to explore how individuals imagined owning themselves as market actors and as members of an emerging civil society. It focuses on how they managed the contradictions of participating in the capitalist market without being branded as gamblers. It argues that a moral economy of rational improvement and a disciplined self was crucial to this process, to counter the fragility of self-ownership and the unpredictability and riskiness of property not based on land ownership. This disciplined and rational self-ownership was inextricable from the development of gender relations, which rested on the division between the public and private spheres, and from the disavowal of 'bad femininity' from the account of property.