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

Author/creator Davis, David Brion
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Descriptionxvi, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [333]-413) and index.
LCCN 2005031850
ISBN0195140737 (alk. paper)