Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World /
David Brion Davis.
- Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- xv, 440 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-413) and index.
The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of mo dern slavery -- The origins of anti-Black racism in the New World -- Ho w Africans became integral to New World history -- The Atlantic slave s ystem : Brazil and the Caribbean -- Slavery in Colonial North America - - The problem of slavery in the American Revolution -- The impact of th e French and Haitian revolutions -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century S outh I : from contradiction to defense -- Slavery in the nineteenth-cen tury 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.
0195140737 (alk. paper)
2005-031850
Slavery -- History.-- United States Slavery -- History.-- America Antislavery movements -- History.-- United States Antislavery movements -- History.-- America