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Book

A brief history of slavery

Call Number

  • 306.362 B6275 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Philadelphia : Running Press Book Publishers ; London : Robinson, 2011.

Physical Description

xiii, 322 pages ; 20 cm.

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.

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.

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