LEADER 03626nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910821027503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03025-7 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674030251 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786872 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000119667 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12000581 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119667 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10073420 035 $a(PQKB)10940508 035 $a(DE-B1597)574423 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674030251 035 $a(OCoLC)1243310347 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300402 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786872 100 $a20030221d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChallenging the boundaries of slavery /$fDavid Brion Davis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (127 p.) 225 1 $aThe Nathan I. Huggins lectures 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-01182-1 311 $a0-674-01985-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [95]-106) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tCONTENTS -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery -- $t2 1819: Signs of a New Era -- $t3 African-American Abolitionism and Southern Fears -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIn this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world slavery, he traces continuities from the ancient world to the era of exploration, with its expanding markets and rise in consumption of such products as sugar, tobacco, spices, and chocolate, to the conditions of the New World settlement that gave rise to a dependence on the forced labor of millions of African slaves. With the American Revolution, slavery crossed another kind of boundary, in a psychological inversion that placed black slaves outside the dream of liberty and equality--and turned them into the Great American Problem. Davis then delves into a single year, 1819, to explain how an explosive conflict over the expansion and legitimacy of slavery, together with reinterpretations of the Bible and the Constitution, pointed toward revolutionary changes in American culture. Finally, he widens the angle again, in a regional perspective, to discuss the movement to colonize blacks outside the United States, the African-American impact on abolitionism, and the South's response to slave emancipation in the British Caribbean, which led to attempts to morally vindicate slavery and export it into future American states. Challenging the boundaries of slavery ultimately brought on the Civil War and the unexpected, immediate emancipation of slaves long before it could have been achieved in any other way. This imaginative and fascinating book puts slavery into a brilliant new light and underscores anew the desperate human tragedy lying at the very heart of the American story. 410 0$aNathan I. Huggins lectures. 606 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory. 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory. 676 $a306.3/62/0973 700 $aDavis$b David Brion$0127695 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821027503321 996 $aChallenging the Boundaries of Slavery$94044890 997 $aUNINA