Inhuman bondage
Subtitle: the rise and fall of slavery in the New World
By: by David Brion Davis.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Slavery -- United States -- History; Slavery -- America -- History; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History; Antislavery movements -- America -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Amistad test of law and justice; title: The ancient foundations of modern slavery; title: The origins of anti-Black racism in the New World; title: How Africans became integral to New World history; title: The Atlantic slave system : Brazil and the Caribbean; title: Slavery in Colonial North America; title: The problem of slavery in the American Revolution; title: The impact of the French and Haitian revolutions; title: Slavery in the nineteenth-century South I : from contradiction to defense; title: Slavery in the nineteenth-century south II; title: Some nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts; title: Explanations of British abolitionism; title: Abolitionism in America; title: The politics of slavery in the United States; title: The Civil War and slave emancipation.