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A brief history of slavery / Jeremy Black.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brief history ofPublication details: Philadelphia : Running Press Book Publishers ; London : Robinson, c2011.Description: xiii, 322 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780762442775 (pbk.)
  • 0762442778 (pbk.)
  • 9781849016896 (pbk)
  • 1849016895 (pbk)
Other title:
  • Slavery : a new global history
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62 23
LOC classification:
  • E446 B53 2011
Contents:
Introduction -- Pre-1500 -- The age of conquest, 1500-1600 -- The spread of capitalist slavery, 1600-1700 -- Slavery before abolitionism, 1700-1780 -- Revolution, abolitionism and the contrasting fortunes of the slave trade and slavery, 1780-1850 -- The end of slavery, 1830-1930? -- A troubled present, 1930-2011 -- Legacies and conclusions.
Summary: Slavery is as old as the world itself and expert and professor Jeremy Black will show that its history is one that is central to our understanding of the modern world. This essential guide is a new global history of slavery from ancient times to the present day, includes fascinating new insights and interpretations including the role of slavery within Islam, the complicity of some Africans in the transatlantic trade, and will raise key questions about the persistence of slavery today and what our governments are doing about it.--Publisher's description.
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Books Books AIU/NEGST - Tony Wilmot Memorial Library General Stacks General Circulation E 446.B53 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available T05638W3232

Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-302) and index.

Introduction -- Pre-1500 -- The age of conquest, 1500-1600 -- The spread of capitalist slavery, 1600-1700 -- Slavery before abolitionism, 1700-1780 -- Revolution, abolitionism and the contrasting fortunes of the slave trade and slavery, 1780-1850 -- The end of slavery, 1830-1930? -- A troubled present, 1930-2011 -- Legacies and conclusions.

Slavery is as old as the world itself and expert and professor Jeremy Black will show that its history is one that is central to our understanding of the modern world. This essential guide is a new global history of slavery from ancient times to the present day, includes fascinating new insights and interpretations including the role of slavery within Islam, the complicity of some Africans in the transatlantic trade, and will raise key questions about the persistence of slavery today and what our governments are doing about it.--Publisher's description.

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