The Holocaust and new world slavery : a comparative history / Steven T. Katz, Boston University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Steven T., 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

Genocide.

United States.

Genocide--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xiii, 852 pages) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This volume offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery. Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of data and evidence, Steven Katz analyzes the fundamental differences between the two systems and re-evaluates our understanding of the Nazi agenda. Among the subjects he examines are: the use of black slaves as workers compared to the Nazi use of Jewish labor; the causes of slave demographic decline and growth in different New World locations; the main features of Jewish life during the Holocaust relative to slave life with regard to such topics as diet, physical punishment, medical care, and the role of religion; the treatment of slave women and children as compared to the treatment of Jewish women and children in the Holocaust. Katz shows that slave women were valued as workers, as reproducers of future slaves, and as sexual objects, and that slave children were valued as commodities. For these reasons, neither slave women nor children were intentionally murdered. By comparison, Jewish slave women and children were viewed as the ultimate racial enemy and therefore had to be exterminated. These and other findings conclusively demonstrate the uniqueness of the Holocaust compared with other historical instances of slavery.

Contents:

Volume 1: Understanding Black slavery in the new world

The middle passage

Considering slave demography in the new world

Reproduction and miscegenation

Breeding

The conditions of bondage

The conditions of bondage: beyond basic necessities

Manumission

Volume 2: American slave law

Black slavery and the Holocaust: comparing the fate of women and children

German labor needs and the murder of Jewish men and women

Devaluing Jewish labor

Rape and Rassenschande during the Holocaust

Murdering Jewish children.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-835) and index.

ISBN:

9781108415088

1108415083

9781108476553

1108476554

9781108699044

1108699049

OCLC:

1042082801

Publisher Number:

40029419154

99981954707