Table of Contents

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