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Autore: |
Davis David Brion
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Titolo: |
Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World / / David Brion Davis
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Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2006] |
©2006 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (464 p. ) : ill., maps, ports |
Disciplina: | 306.3620975 |
Soggetto topico: | Slavery - United States - History |
Slavery - America - History | |
Antislavery movements - United States - History | |
Antislavery movements - America - History | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Inhuman bondage ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-280-53114-2 |
0-19-972665-5 | |
1-4294-0184-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451684403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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