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What is Slavery? (Hardcover)
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What is Slavery? (Hardcover)
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What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the
long history of the institution and its widespread use around the
globe, many people still largely associate slavery, outside of the
biblical references in the Old Testament, to the enslavement of
Africans in America, particularly the United States. Slavery proved
to be essential to the creation of the young nation s agricultural
and industrial economies and profoundly shaped its political and
cultural landscapes, even until today. What Is Slavery? focuses on
the experience of enslaved black people in the United States from
its early colonial period to the dawn of that destructive war that
was as much about slavery as anything else. The book begins with a
survey of slavery across time and place, from the ancient world to
the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and then describes the
commerce in black laborers that ushered in market globalization and
brought more than 12 million Africans to the Americas, before
finally examining slavery in law and practice. For those who are
looking for a concise and comprehensive treatment of such topics as
slave labor, culture, resistance, family and gender relations, the
domestic slave trade, the regionalization of the institution in the
expanding southern and southwestern frontiers, and escalating
abolitionist and proslavery advocacies, this book will be essential
reading.
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