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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.
Author
Davis, David Brion.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Description
xvi, 440 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Call Number
Sc E 06-608
ISBN
0195140737 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005031850
  • 9780195140736
OCLC
62281901
Author
Davis, David Brion.
Title
Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World / David Brion Davis.
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-413) and index.
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9780195140736
Research Call Number
Sc E 06-608
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