Celadon and Chains: Slavery and the Building of Korean Civilization

The civilisation that made the most coveted ceramic of the medieval world, the celadon its Chinese rivals ranked first under heaven, fired it in a kingdom that owned a third of its people. For close to a thousand years it ranked people by birth and bound the lowest to the foulest work, and the art and learning the world still admires could not have stood a day without them. Celadon and Chains tell...