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Shaping the New World : African slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 /

Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based sl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nellis, Eric Guest, 1938- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: North York, Ontario, Canada : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Colección:International themes and issues (Toronto, Ont.) ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The setting for New World slavery : an overview
  • The Atlantic slave trade
  • Slavery and the shaping of colonial Latin America : 1500-1800
  • The making of the black Caribbean, 1650-1800
  • Slavery in prerevolutionary North America : the making of the "South"
  • The slave as person : women, children, family, and culture
  • The apogee : revolutions, abolitionism, persistence
  • Conclusion.