Inhuman bondage : : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World / / David Brion Davis.

• VerfasserIn: Davis, David Brion,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Oxford University Press,, [2006]; 2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 440 pages) :; illustrations, maps

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.