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Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World

Title
Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World / David Brion Davis.
ISBN
0195140737 (alk. paper)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
xvi, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 18, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-413) and index.
Contents
The Amistad test of law and justice
The ancient foundations of modern slavery
The origins of antiblack 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 : from slaveholder treatment and the nature of labor to slave culture, sex and religion, and free Blacks
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.
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