The problem of slavery as history : a global approach / Joseph C. Miller.
"Why did slavery--an accepted evil for thousands of years--suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Joseph C. Miller turns this classic question on it...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | David Brion Davis series.
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Table of Contents:
- The problem of slavery as history
- History as a problem of slaving
- Slavery and history as problems in Africa
- Problematizing slavery in the Americas as history
- Appendix: schematic historical sequences of slaving.