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Author Davis, David Brion.

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

Publication Info. Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E441 .D2495 2006    Available  ---
Description xv, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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 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.
Subject Slavery -- United States -- History.
Slavery.
United States.
History.
Slavery -- America -- History.
America.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History.
Antislavery movements.
Antislavery movements -- America -- History.
ISBN 0195140737 alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780195140736