Pt. I. Slavery, Slave Systems, World History, and Comparative History -- 1. The study of ancient and modern slave systems: setting an agenda for comparison / Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari -- 2. Slavery, gender, and work in the pre-modern world and early Greece: a cross-cultural analysis / Orlando Patterson -- 3. Slaving as historical process: examples from the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Atlantic / Joseph C. Miller -- Pt. II. Economics and Technology of Ancient and Modern Slave Systems -- 4. The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world / Walter Scheidel -- 5. Slavery and technology in pre-industrial contexts / Tracey Rihll -- 6. Comparing or interlinking? Economic comparisons of early nineteenth-century slave systems in the Americas in historical perspective / Michael Zeuske -- Pt. III. Ideologies and Practices of Management in Ancient and Modern Slavery -- 7. Ideal models of slave management in the Roman world and in the ante-bellum American South / Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari -- 8. Panis, disciplina, et opus servo: the Jesuit ideology in Portuguese America and Greco-Roman ideas of slavery / Rafael de Bivar Marquese and Fabio Duarte Joly -- Pt. IV. Exiting Slave Systems -- 9. Processes of exiting the slave systems: a typology / Olivier Petre-Grenouilleau -- 10. Emancipation schemes: different ways of ending slavery / Stanley Engerman -- Pt. V. Slavery and Unfree Labour, Ancient and Modern -- 11. Spartiates, helots and the direction of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective / Stephen Hodkinson.