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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

by David Brion Davis

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 greatest evils.


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IN 1770, on the eve of the American Revolution, African American slavery was legal and almost unquestioned throughout the New World.

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  • Title Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
  • Author David Brion Davis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 2008-04-18
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195339444 / 0195339444
  • Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.19 x 6.28 x 1.23 in (23.34 x 15.95 x 3.12 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
  • Library of Congress subjects Slavery - United States - History, Antislavery movements - United States -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.362

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Citations

  • Christianity Today, 04/01/2014, Page 70
  • New York Times Book Review, 08/24/2008, Page 24

About the author

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and Director Emeritus of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, also at Yale. Best known for his highly acclaimed books The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, Slavery and Human Progress, and most recently, Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery, Davis has won a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award for History and Biography, the Bancroft Prize, the Albert J. Beveridge Award, and the Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement, among other honors.
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