Discussions of slavery in Pharaonic Egypt are hindered by the complicated terminology used by the Egyptians to refer to different classes of people with limited freedom; these terms also changed in meaning over the course of dynastic history.Shaw...
discussing slavery in Pharaonic Egypt (Helck 1984), since the very hypothesis of the existence of such an institution is a subject of debate among social and economic historians (cf. discussion by Menu 2004a: 337 - 359, 2004b; and Hofmann 2005). From ...