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1 online resource (115 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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The Nathan I. Huggins lectures
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Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
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| Summary |
"In this book, David Brion Davis offers a perspective on American slavery. Across temporal and spatial boundaries, he traces slavery from the ancient world to the era of exploration - with its expanding markets in such products as sugar, tobacco, spices, and chocolate - to the conditions of New World settlement that led to dependence on African slave labor. In the American Revolution, the issue of slavery crossed a kind of psychological boundary that placed black slaves outside the dream of liberty and equality and turned them into the Great American Problem." |
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"Davis then delves into a single year, 1819, to explain how an explosive conflict over the expansion and legitimacy of slavery, together with reinterpretations of the Bible and the Constitution, pointed toward revolutionary changes in American culture. Finally, he examines the movement to colonize blacks outside the United States, the African-American impact on abolitionism, and the South's response to slave emancipation in the Caribbean, which led to attempts to morally vindicate slavery and export it into future American states. Challenging these boundaries of slavery ultimately brought on the Civil War, which effected emancipation long before it could have been achieved in any other way." |
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"This book views slavery in a new light and underscores the human tragedy at the heart of the American story."--Jacket. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-106) and index. |
| Contents |
The origins and nature of new world slavery -- 1819: signs of a new era -- African-American abolitionism and Southern fears. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Slavery. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History.
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Antislavery movements. |
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Davis, David Brion. Challenging the boundaries of slavery. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 0674011821 9780674011823 (DLC) 2003041746 (OCoLC)51854972 |
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9780674030251 electronic book |
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0674030257 electronic book |
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9780674011823 alkaline paper |
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0674011821 alkaline paper |
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9780674019850 paperback |
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0674019857 paperback |
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