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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: 402
Pages: 402
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher:
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century. His trenchan
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: 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