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Challenging the boundaries of slavery / David Brion Davis.
LIBRA E441 .D248 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, David Brion.
- Series:
- Nathan I. Huggins lectures
- The Nathan I. Huggins lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- Antislavery movements.
- History.
- United States.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 115 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Challenging the boundaries of slavery ultimately brought on the Civil War and the unexpected, immediate emancipation of slaves long before it could have been achieved in any other way. This imaginative and fascinating book puts slavery into a brilliant new light and underscores anew the desperate human tragedy lying at the very heart of the American story.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [95]-106) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674011821
- OCLC:
- 51854972
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