The problem of slavery in the age of revolution, 1770-1823 / David Brion Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, David Brion, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (577 pages)

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford Universtiy Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Part of a trilogy "The Problem of Slavery in World History", this is the second book in the series. It features a preface exploring the anti-slavery debate among American historians, between the 1970s and 1990s, started by the original publication of this book in the 1970s.

Contents:

Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Preface; Notes on Terms; A Calendar of Events Associated with Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Emancipation, 1770-1823; One: What the Abolitionists Were Up Against; Two: The Seats of Power, I; Three: The Seats of Power, II; Four: The Boundaries of Idealism; Five: The Quaker Ethic and the Antislavery International; Six: The Emancipation of America, I; Seven: The Emancipation of America, II; Eight: The Preservation of English Liberty, I; Nine: The Preservation of English Liberty, II; Ten: Antislavery and the Conflict of Laws; Eleven: The Good Book; Epilogue: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Phenomenology of Mind; Index

Notes:

Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1975. _ Reprinted with a new preface.

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780197715581

0197715583

9780199880836

0199880832

9780195128505

0195128508

9781280471889

1280471883

9780198029496

0198029497

9781602563407

1602563403

OCLC:

476015019

Publisher Number:

2027/heb00229 hdl