CONTENTS.

    PREFACE
    GENERAL INTRODUCTION

    PART I. - DESCRIPTIVE.

    CHAPTER I. -- DEFINITION AND DISTINCTION FROM KINDRED PHENOMENA.
    § 1. Ordinary meaning of the term "slavery"
    § 2. Use of the term "slavery" in theoretical literature
    § 3. Definition for scientific use
    § 4. Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. I Wives in an abject condition
    § 5. Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena, II Children subjected to the head of the family
    § 6. Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. III Members of a society in their relation to the head of the community
    § 7. Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. IV Subjected tribes; tributary provinces; lower classes; free labourers
    § 8. Distinction of slavery from kindred phenomena. V Serfs
    § 9. Pawns or debtor-slaves
    CHAPTER II. -- GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY
    § 1. Introduction
    § 2. North America
    § 3. Central and South America
    § 4. Australia
    § 5. Melanesia
    § 6. Polynesia
    § 7. Micronesia
    § 8. Malay Archipelago
    § 9. Indo-Chinese Peninsula
    § 10. India, Afghanistan, Himalaya
    § 11. Central Asia
    § 12. Siberia
    § 13. Caucasus
    § 14. Arabia
    § 15. Africa. A. Bantu tribes
    § 16. Africa. B. Soudan Negroes
    § 17. Africa, C. Light-coloured South Africans and African pigmy-tribes
    § 18. Africa. D. Hamitic peoples
    § 19. Recapitulation

    PART II. -- THEORETICAL.

    CHAPTER I. -- METHOD AND DIVISIONS.
    § 1. Method
    § 2. Distinction of economic groups
    § 3. Hunting and fishing, pastoral, and agricultural tribes in the several geographical districts
    CHAPTER II. -- HUNTERS AND FISHERS.
    § 1. Why slaves are not of much use to hunters
    § 2. The slave-keeping tribes of the Pacific Coast of North America
    § 3. Experimentum crucis: Australia
    § 4. Experimentum crucis: Central North America
    § 5. Experimentum crucis: Eskimos
    § 6. Conclusion
    CHAPTER III. -- PASTORAL TRIBES.
    § 1. Capital and labour among pastoral tribes
    § 2. Slavery among pastoral tribes
    CHAPTER IV. -- AGRICULTURAL TRIBES.
    § 1. Numbers of positive and negative cases in the three agricultural groups.
    § 2. Development of agricultural and development of slavery
    § 3. Capital and labour among agricultural tribes
    § 4. Land and population
    § 5. Land tenure in Polynesia
    § 6. Land tenure in Micronesia
    § 7. Land tenure in Melanesia
    § 8. Landlords, tenants and labourers in Oceania
    § 9. Transition from serfdom to freedom in Western Europa
    § 10. The rural classes of medieval England
    § 11. The rural classes of medieval Germany
    § 12. Open and closed resources
    § 13. Condition of women
    § 14. Commerce
    § 15. Slaves employed in warfare
    § 16. Slaves kept as a luxury
    § 17. Other secondary internal causes
    § 18. External causes, especially the slave-trade. Recapitulation
    CHAPTER V. -- CONCLUSION.
    § 1. General survey
    § 2. Outlines of a further investigation of the early history of slavery
    LIST OF AUTHORITIES
    Map: Distribution of slavery in primitive cultures
    SUBJECT-INDEX