Slavery as an Industrial System: Ethnological Researches

Nieboer, Herman Jeremias, Slavery as an Industrial System: Ethnological Researches, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1910.

Available online HERE, (1910), and HERE, (1900).

From SLAVERY AS A SYSTEM OF PRODUCTION IN TRIBAL SOCIETY, (1966):

It is now more than half a century since the publication, in 1900, of the comprehensive study on slavery by the ethnologist H. J. Nieboer.1 Rejecting the then current theories, according to which the institution of slavery arose, of necessity, at a given stage of social evolution, Nieboer attempted to explain the phenomenon in functional terms.2 In order to establish the factors determining the occurrence of slavery Nieboer based his research on data relating to 391 tribal societies listed in tables compiled by S. R. Steinmetz.3.