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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, David Brion, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juneteenth.

Slavery--Southern States--History.

Slavery.

Antislavery movements--Southern States--History.

Antislavery movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 pages) illustrations, maps, portraits.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offering a narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, & the legacy of racism, this book connects the actual life of slaves with the crucial place of slavery in American politics. It is a study of slavery that provides a global perspective on the subject with an emphasis on the United States.

Contents:

The Amistad test of law and justice

The ancient foundations of modern slavery

The origins of anti-Black 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

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:

Previously issued in print: 2006.

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:

0-19-771391-2

1-280-53114-2

0-19-972665-5

1-4294-0184-2

OCLC:

1027172361