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Arming Slaves - From Classical Times to the Modern Age (Paperback)
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Arming Slaves - From Classical Times to the Modern Age (Paperback)
Series: The David Brion Davis Series
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Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet
throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have
entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the
first to survey the practice broadly across space and time,
encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic
kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and
French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America.To
facilitate cross-cultural comparisons, each chapter addresses four
crucial issues: the social and cultural facts regarding the arming
of slaves, the experience of slave soldiers, the ideological
origins and consequences of equipping enslaved peoples for battle,
and the impact of the practice on the status of slaves and slavery
itself. What emerges from the book is a new historical
understanding: the arming of slaves is neither uncommon nor
paradoxical but is instead both predictable and explicable.
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