The problem of slavery in Western culture

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The problem of slavery in Western culture

David Brion Davis

(Oxford paperbacks)

Oxford Univeristy Press, 1988

  • pbk.

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First published in 1966 by Cornell University Press

"Winner of 1967 Pulitzer Prize"

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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  • NCID
    BA06792233
  • ISBN
    • 0195056396
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 505 p.; 21 cm
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