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.