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This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.

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`Immensely learned, readable, disturbing.' New York Review of Books

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
      Publication Date: 3/23/1989 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780195056396, 978-0195056396
      ISBN10: 0195056396
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      Book Synopsis
      This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.

      Trade Review
      `Immensely learned, readable, disturbing.' New York Review of Books

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