Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World / David Brion Davis.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, David Brion
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Slavery > United States > History.
Slavery > America > History.
Antislavery movements > United States > History.
Antislavery movements > America > History.
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Physical Description:xvi, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.