Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

Name: Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
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ISBN: 9780307269096

ISBN-10: 0307269094

ISBN-13: 9780307269096

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Authors: David Brion Davis

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From the revered historian-winner of nearly every award given in his field-the long-awaited conclusion of his magisterial three-volume history of slavery in Western culture that has been more than fifty years in the making.David Brion Davis is one of the foremost historians of our time, and in this final volume in his monumental trilogy on slavery in Western culture he offers highly original, authoritative, and penetrating insight into what slavery and emancipation meant to Americans. He explores how the Haitian revolution terrified and inspired white and black Americans respectively, and offers a commanding analysis of the complex and misunderstood significance of "colonization"-the…

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List price: $34.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/4/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.57" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His previous books include The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, which won a National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize, and The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture which won a Pulitzer Prize.