Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Citations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Ancient Greek and Roman Slaveries 20
7. 2. Sixteenth-Century French and English Resistance Theory 57
8. 3. Human Sacrifice, Barbarism, and Buchanan’s Jephtha 92
9. 4. Antityranny, Slavery, and Revolution 123
10. 5. Freeborn Sons or Slaves? 162
11. 6. The Power of Life and Death 193
12. 7. Nakedness, History, and Bare Life 227
13. 8. Hobbes’s State of Nature and “Hard” Privativism 257
14. 9. Hobbes, Slavery, and Despotical Rule 293
15. 10. Locke’s “Of Slavery,” Despotical Power, and Tyranny 326
16. Epilogue 362
17. Acknowledgments 369
18. Notes 371
19. Index 409