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Book SynopsisInhuman Bondage is the definitive study of slavery for our time, providing a global perspective on the subject with an emphasis on the United States. Davis is one of our preeminent historians and the authority on America's greatest historical problem.
Trade ReviewA tour de force...Could not be more welcome...An invaluable guide to explaining what has made slavery's consequences so much a part of contemporary American culture and politics. * Ira Berlin, The New York Times Book Review *
Impressive and sprawling...Davis's account is rich in detail, and his voice is clear enough to coax even casual readers through this dense history. * Publishers Weekly *
Table of ContentsMaps A Selective Calendar of Events Prologue 1: The Amistad Test of Law and Justice 2: The Ancient Foundations of Modern Slavery 3: The Origins of Anti-Black Racism in the New World 4: How Africans Became Integral to New World History 5: The Atlantic Slave System: Brazil and the Caribbean 6: Slavery in Colonial North America 7: The Problem of Slavery in the American Revolution 8: The Impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions 9: Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century South, I: From Contradiction to Defense 10: Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century South, II: From Slaveholder Treatment and the Nature of Labor to Slave Culture, Sex and Religion, and Free Blacks 11: Some Nineteenth-Century Slave Conspiracies and Revolts 12: Explanations of British Abolitionism 13: Abolitionism in America 14: The Politics of Slavery in the United States 15: The Civil War and Slave Emancipation Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index
