Bibliograph

Inhuman bondage, the rise and fall of slavery in the New World, David Brion Davis

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Inhuman bondage, the rise and fall of slavery in the New World, David Brion Davis

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrationsmapsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Inhuman bondage

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

62281901

Responsibility statement

David Brion Davis

Sub title

the rise and fall of slavery in the New World

Table Of 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

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