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Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World
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- Online
- Summary
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Offering a narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, & the legacy of racism, this book connects the actual life of slaves with the crucial place of slavery in ...
Offering a narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, & the legacy of racism, this book connects the actual life of slaves with the crucial place of slavery in American politics. It is a study of slavery that provides a global perspective on the subject with an emphasis on the United States.
Details
- Creator
- David Brion Davis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (464 pages) illustrations, maps, portraits
- ISBNs
- 9780197713914, 0197713912, 9781280531149, 1280531142, 9780199726653, 0199726655, 9781429401845, 1429401842, 0195140737
- OCLC
- on1027172361, ocn958558386
- Previously issued in print: 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of modern slavery -- The origins of anti-Black racism in the New World -- How Africans became integral to New World history -- The Atlantic slave system : Brazil and the Caribbean -- Slavery in Colonial North America -- The problem of slavery in the American Revolution -- The impact of the French and Haitian revolutions -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century South I : from contradiction to defense -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century south II -- Some nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts -- Explanations of British abolitionism -- Abolitionism in America -- The politics of slavery in the United States -- The Civil War and slave emancipation