The problem of slavery as history : a global approach / Joseph C. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Joseph Calder.

Series:

David Brion Davis series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--History.

Slavery.

History.

Slavery--Historiography.

Physical Description:

xii, 218 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Why did slavery-an accepted evil for thousands of years-suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that European governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Joseph C. Miller turns this classic question on its head by arguing that slaving must be viewed generally as a process rather than as an institution available for legal termination. Tracing slaving over thousands of years, Miller reveals the shortcomings of attempting to find the same structures and power relations around the globe, regardless of places and times, concluding instead that slaving is a process which can be understood fully only as imbedded in changing circumstances. Book jacket.

Contents:

The problem of slavery as history

History as a problem of slaving

Slavery and history as problems in Africa

Problematizing slavery in the Americas as history

Appendix: schematic historical sequences of slaving.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-209) and index.

ISBN:

9780300113150

0300113153

OCLC:

753300481