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Language: en
Pages: 577
Pages: 577
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-04-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generat
Language: en
Pages: 90
Pages: 90
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: CRC Press
How was it possible for opponents of slavery to be so vocal in opposing the practice, when they were so accepting of the economic exploitation of workers in wes
Language: en
Pages: 521
Pages: 521
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 450
Pages: 450
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-06 - Publisher: Vintage
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2014 With this volume, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greates
Language: en
Pages: 467
Pages: 467
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Davis begins with the dramatic "Amistad" case, and then looks at slavery in the American South and the abolitionists who defeated one of human history's greates