Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World /

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David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award - including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award - and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical ski...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davis, David Brion
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Slavery > United States > History.
Slavery > America > History.
Antislavery movements > United States > History.
Antislavery movements > America > History.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Amérique > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Antislavery movements
Slavery
America
United States
History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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