Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, (Paperback)

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David Brion Davis's sprawling tome Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World makes a bold and successful attempt at fulfilling the grandiose intentions of its title. Davis, one of the most well-respected slave historians of the latter half of the twentieth century, adapted th...

from billiecat

An important book, even a great one. Anyone with any interest in this subject (and that should include anyone who lives in the United States) should read this book. This book has as its kernel a series of lectures Brion Davis gave to high school teachers, but it is in actuality a synthesis of a l...

from GeoKaras

A great work of history and essential to anyone wishing to understand slavery in the New World and its effects on world history.

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Essential Reading If you want to know the history of chattel slavery, and its eventual destruction in the Caribbean and the US, Inhuman Bondage is the book for you. Insightful, detailed, and comprehensive, the book covers slavery from ancient times, to its focus on Africans in the transatlantic s...

from rivkat

A history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, from the African and Mediterranean antecedents, including Biblical arguments, to abolition, including the Haitian revolution (the only successful slave revolt) and the American Civil War. Davis covers a lot of ground, including the fear of slave reb...