This interdisciplinary conference aims to interrogate the state of the field for slavery, and broader practices of unfreedom and trafficking, in the global premodern world. This field has flourished in recent years, yet still remains relatively understudied despite offering fertile ground to discuss the history of slavery, servitude, and exploitation. Premodern Unfreedoms seeks to grapple not only with the larger historical issues of globalizing the practice of unfreedom in the premodern period, but to also forefront the human stories at its core.
