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The Journal of Global Slavery (JGS) aims to advance and promote a greater understanding of slavery and
post-slavery from comparative, transregional, and/or global perspectives, as well as methodological and
theoretical aspects of its study. It especially underscores the global and globalizing nature of slavery in
world history. As a practice in which human beings were held captive for an indefinite period of time,
coerced into extremely dependent and exploitative power relationships, denied rights (including
potentially rights over their labor, lives, and bodies), could be bought and sold, were vulnerable to forced
relocation by various means, and forced to labor against their will, slavery in one form or another has
existed in innumerable societies throughout history. JGS fosters a global view of slavery by integrating
the latest scholarship from around the world and providing an interdisciplinary platform for scholars
working on slavery in regions as diverse as ancient Rome, Pre-Colombian Mexico, Han dynasty China,
the Ottoman Empire, the antebellum United States, and twenty-first-century Mali. The journal also
promotes a view of slavery as a globalizing force in the development of world civilizations. Global history
focuses heavily upon the global movement of people, goods, and ideas, with a particular emphasis on
processes of integration and divergence in the human experience. Slavery straddles all of these focal
points, as it connected and integrated various societies through economic and power-based
relationships, and simultaneously divided societies by class, race, ethnicity, and cultural group. JGS is a
peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles based on original research, book reviews, short notes and
communications, and special issues.
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