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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451684403321
• Autore: Davis David Brion
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• ISBN: 1-280-53114-2; 0-19-972665-5; 1-4294-0184-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (464 p. ) : ill., maps, ports
• Disciplina: 306.3620975
• Soggetti: Slavery - United States - History; Slavery - America - History; Antislavery movements - United States - History; Antislavery movements - America - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: 2006.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-413) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Offering a narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, & the legacy of racism, this book connects the actual life of slaves with the crucial place of slavery in American politics. It is a study of slavery that provides a global perspective on the subject with an emphasis on the United States.