Cenference Report: Negotiating Status and Scope of Action. Interrelations between Slavery and Other Forms of Dependency in Early Modern Europe. University of Bremen, June 15 17, 2017

Abstract

Recent research has assembled extensive evidence of forcibly transported and enslaved persons within Europe, provoking the question to what extent slavery and other forms of bondage and dependency influenced each other. The conference brought together researchers from different parts of Europe and the USA to discuss the ambiguous legal and social status of such persons and the intersections between slavery and other forms of dependency prevalent in early modern Europe like serfdom, war imprisonment, convict labor, domestic servitude, or guardianship.