Inhuman Bondage The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Name: Inhuman Bondage The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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ISBN: 9780195339444

ISBN-10: 0195339444

ISBN-13: 9780195339444

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Brion Davis

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Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in this definitive account of New World slavery. The heart of the book looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary slaves, the highly destructive slave trade, the sexual exploitation of slaves, the emergence of an African-American culture, and much more. But though centered on the United States, the book offers a global perspective spanning four continents. It is the only study of…

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 9.17" wide x 6.30" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 1.474
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.



Maps


A Selective Calendar of Events


Prologue



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



From Contradiction to Defense



Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century South



From Slaveholder Treatment and the Nature of Labor to Slave Culture, Sex and Religion, and Free Blacks



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


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index