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Abolition : a history of slavery and antislavery /

In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Drescher, Seymour
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Extension
  • A perennial institution
  • Expanding slavery
  • Extension and tension
  • Crisis
  • Border skirmishes
  • Age of the American Revolution, 1770s-1820s
  • Franco-American Revolutions, 1780s-1820s
  • Latin American Revolutions, 1810s-1820s
  • Abolitionism without revolution: Great Britain, 1770s-1820s
  • Contraction
  • British emancipation
  • From colonial emancipation to global abolition
  • The end of slavery in Anglo-America
  • Abolishing New World slavery: Latin America
  • Emancipation in the Old World, 1880s-1920s
  • Reversion
  • Reversion in Europe
  • Cycles actual and counterfactual.