Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Arming Slaves and Helots in Classical Greece 14
7. The Mamlūk Institution, or One Thousand Years of Military Slavery in the Islamic World 40
8. Armed Slaves and Political Authority in Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade, 1450–1800 79
9. Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa, 1750–1900 95
10. Transforming Bondsmen into Vassals: Arming Slaves in Colonial Spanish America 120
11. Arming Slaves in Brazil from the Seventeenth Century to the Nineteenth Century 146
12. Arming Slaves in the American Revolution 180
13. The Arming of Slaves in the Haitian Revolution 209
14. Citizen Soldiers: Emancipation and Military Service in the Revolutionary French Caribbean 233
15. The Slave Soldiers of Spanish South America: From Independence to Abolition 255
16. Armed Slaves and the Struggles for Republican Liberty in the U.S. Civil War 274
17. Armed Slaves and Anticolonial Insurgency in Late Nineteenth-Century Cuba 304
18. The Arming of Slaves in Comparative Perspective 330
19. Contributors 354
20. Index 356