Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World

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

Author/creator	Davis, David Brion
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Description	xvi, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Slavery--United States --History. Slavery--America --History. Antislavery movements--United States --History. Antislavery movements--America --History.

Contents	The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of modern slavery -- The origins of antiblack 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 : 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-413) and index.
LCCN	2005031850
ISBN	0195140737 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E441 .D2495 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold