Last date for submission of paper: 30-Jan-2020; Contact person: unknown; Unfreedom marked the lives of various people in the premodern world. Many factors played a role in shaping the forms of unfreedom prevalent in the premodern era: violence and coercion; shame and dishonor; disconnection of kin groups and destruction of social networks; and individual and collective strategies for economic, political and social success that depended on the subjection of others.