| Description |
1 online resource (485 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Part One: Extension; 1 A Perennial Institution; 2 Expanding Slavery; 3 Extension and Tension; Part Two: Crisis; 4 Border Skirmishes; 5 Age of the American Revolution, 1770s1820s; 6 Franco-American Revolutions, 1780s1820s; 7 Latin American Revolutions, 1810s-1820s; 8 Abolitionism without Revolution; Part Three: Contraction; 9 British Emancipation; 10 From Colonial Emancipation to Global Abolition; 11 The End of Slavery in Anglo-America; 12 Abolishing New World Slavery Latin America |
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13 Emancipation in the Old World, 1880s1920sPart Four: Reversion; 14 Reversion in Europe; 15 Cycles Actual and Counterfactual; Index |
| Summary |
This book examines the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Slavery -- History
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Antislavery movements -- History
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Antislavery movements
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Slavery
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511768064 |
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0511768060 |
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