In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on the resistance of the enslaved themselves--from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings--and its impact in overthrowing slavery.g slavery.
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Höhe: 231 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 33 mm
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978-1-64313-206-8 (9781643132068)
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James Walvin is the author of several books on slavery and modern social history, including Crossings and A Jamaican Plantation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2008 he was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship. He lives in England.