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Autore |
Bergad Laird W. <1948-> |
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Titolo |
The comparative histories of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States / / Laird W. Bergad [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-17207-1 |
1-280-90976-5 |
9786610909766 |
0-511-80397-4 |
0-511-28655-4 |
0-511-28583-3 |
0-511-28425-X |
0-511-30172-3 |
0-511-28507-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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New approaches to the Americas |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - Brazil - History |
Slavery - Cuba - History |
Slavery - United States - History |
Slavery - America - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- From colonization to abolition : patterns of historical development in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States -- The diversity of slavery in the Americas to 1790 -- Slaves in their own words -- Slave populations -- Economic aspects -- Making space -- Resistance and rebellions -- Abolition. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations, slavery spread to nearly every region, and in many areas it was the principal |
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