The series Edition Weltordnung – Religion – Gewalt is committed to the interdisciplinary discussion of politically crucial questions regarding the interplay of religion and violence in a globalising world. The authors take a stance on pressing social and political problems of the present, especially with regard to a peaceful coexistence in a religously and ideologically plural European society, and try to see these questions in their historical context. Volume 5 deals with largely neglected aspects of power, violence and resistance in the discourse of slavery. The essays of this collection offer literary, art, historical, and pedagogical approaches to issues of slavery painting a vivid picture of what enslavement meant in the past and what it means in the present. Contributions by Marcus Belben, Sean Creighton, Franca Dellarosa, Judith Jennings, Adrian Knapp, Angela M. Leonard, Daniel Livesay, Helen Mears, Ulrich Pallua and Arno Sonderegger.