The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Oxford Paperbacks)
"A magnificent work done in the finest tradition of historical scholarship."--C. Vann Woodward,Yale University"The most eloquent and scholarly book on slavery we now have in English....Here is cross-cultural history at its best."--Virginia Quarterly Review"A magnificent history of ideas....It will remain a magnificent contribution to intellectual and social history...[and] will be studied for decades to come."--Eugene D. Genovese,Journal of Southern History"A helpful survey of the origins of the institution and its developments down to the end of the eighteenth century."--The Atlantic"A large, immensely learned, readable, exciting, disturbing...volume, one of the most important to have been published on the subject of slavery in modern times."--M.I. Finley,The New York Review of Books