The problem of slavery in the age of revolution, 1770-1823 / / David Brion Davis

• Record Nr.: UNISA996247917403316
• Autore: Davis David Brion
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; , : Oxford Universtiy Press, , 2023
• ISBN: 0-19-771558-3; 0-19-988083-2; 0-19-512850-8; 1-280-47188-3; 0-19-802949-7; 1-60256-340-3
• Edizione: [New ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (577 pages)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 306.36209033; 306.36209035; 326.809033
• Soggetti: Slavery
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1975. _ Reprinted with a new preface.; Previously issued in print: 1999.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Preface; Notes on Terms; A Calendar of Events Associated with Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Emancipation, 1770-1823; One: What the Abolitionists Were Up Against; Two: The Seats of Power, I; Three: The Seats of Power, II; Four: The Boundaries of Idealism; Five: The Quaker Ethic and the Antislavery International; Six: The Emancipation of America, I; Seven: The Emancipation of America, II; Eight: The Preservation of English Liberty, I; Nine: The Preservation of English Liberty, II; Ten: Antislavery and the Conflict of Laws; Eleven: The Good Book; Epilogue: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Phenomenology of Mind; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Part of a trilogy "The Problem of Slavery in World History", this is the second book in the series. It features a preface exploring the anti-slavery debate among American historians, between the 1970s and 1990s, started by the original publication of this book in the 1970s.