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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, David Brion.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Antislavery movements.

History.

United States.

Slavery--America--History.

America.

Antislavery movements--United States--History.

Antislavery movements--America--History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

The author sums up a lifetime of insight in what Stanley L. Engerman calls "a monumental and magisterial book, the essential work on New World slavery for several decades to come." Davis begins with the dramatic Amistad case, and then looks at slavery in the American South and the abolitionists who successfully fought to defeat one of history's greatest evils.

Contents:

The Amistad test of law and justice

The ancient foundations of modern slavery

The origins of antiblack 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 : from slaveholder treatment and the nature of labor to slave culture, sex and religion, and free Blacks

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-413) and index.

ISBN:

0195140737

OCLC:

62281901