Abolition : a history of slavery and antislavery
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Abolition : a history of slavery and antislavery
Cambridge University Press, 2009
- : hbk.
- : pbk
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history. Three centuries later these same intercontinental actions produced a movement that successfully challenged the institution at the peak of its dynamism. Within another century a new surge of European expansion constructed Old World empires under the banner of antislavery. However, twentieth-century Europe itself was inundated by a new system of slavery, larger and more deadly than its earlier system of New World slavery. This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Extension: 1. A perennial institution
- 2. Expanding slavery
- 3. Extension and tension
- 4. Border skirmishes
- Part II. Crisis: 5. Age of American revolution 1770s-1820s
- 6. Franco-American revolutions 1780s-1820s
- 7. Latin American revolutions 1810s-1820s
- 8. Abolitionism without revolution: Great Britain 1770s-1820s
- Part III. Contraction: 9. British emancipation
- 10. From colonial emancipation to global abolition
- 11. The end of slavery: Anglo-America
- 12. Abolishing New World slavery: Latin America
- 13. Constructing Old World slavery: 1870s-1920s
- Part IV. Reversion: 14. Inversion in Europe
- 15. Afterword.
by "Nielsen BookData"