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 to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
`Immensely learned, readable, disturbing.' New York Review of Books
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Verlagsort
Maße
Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 127 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-19-505639-6 (9780195056396)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sterling Professor of History at Yale, author of Slavery and Human Progress (OUP 1984, Cloth; 1986, Paper)
Autor*in
Sterling Professor of HistorySterling Professor of History, Yale University
