Despite having key implications for fundamental political science questions, slavery as a global phenomenon has received little attention in the field. We argue that played an important role state-building and international order formation. To counter historical U.S./Atlantic bias, we draw evidence mostly from Middle East, Africa, Asia. identify two slave-based paths to state construction. A “s...

Dental enamel hypoplasia is a putative marker of childhood morbidity (nutritional or infectious stress) which can he analyzed by age-of-occurrence using a calcification standard. We have recorded age-specific occurrence of (a) minor linear hypoplasias, (b) pits, (c) major growth-arrest lines, and (d) combined hypoplasias in 103 specimens of 17-19th century Caribbean slaves. This population is p...