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Empire of Brutality : Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World /

"Christopher Blakley's Empire of Brutality is a human-animal history of slaving and slavery in the Atlantic World between the end of the seventeenth century and the abolition of the Atlantic trade in 1808. His multidisciplinary study examines how varied relationships between enslaved peopl...

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Autor principal: Blakley, Christopher Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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