The Holocaust and new world slavery : a comparative history

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The Holocaust and new world slavery : a comparative history

Steven T. Katz

Cambridge University Press, 2019

  • : set
  • v. 1 : hardback
  • v. 2 : hardback

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Pagination: v. 1: xiii, 1-436 p. ; v. 2: ix, 437-852 p

Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-835) and index

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Volume

: set ISBN 9781108415088

Description

This volume offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery. Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of data and evidence, Steven Katz analyzes the fundamental differences between the two systems and re-evaluates our understanding of the Nazi agenda. Among the subjects he examines are: the use of black slaves as workers compared to the Nazi use of Jewish labor; the causes of slave demographic decline and growth in different New World locations; the main features of Jewish life during the Holocaust relative to slave life with regard to such topics as diet, physical punishment, medical care, and the role of religion; the treatment of slave women and children as compared to the treatment of Jewish women and children in the Holocaust. Katz shows that slave women were valued as workers, as reproducers of future slaves, and as sexual objects, and that slave children were valued as commodities. For these reasons, neither slave women nor children were intentionally murdered. By comparison, Jewish slave women and children were viewed as the ultimate racial enemy and therefore had to be exterminated. These and other findings conclusively demonstrate the uniqueness of the Holocaust compared with other historical instances of slavery.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Understanding black slavery in the New World
  • 2. The middle passage
  • 3. Considering slave demography in the New World
  • 4. Reproduction and miscegenation
  • 5. Breeding
  • 6. The conditions of bondage
  • 7. The conditions of bondage: beyond basic necessities
  • 8. Manumission
  • 9. American slave law
  • 10. Black slavery and the Holocaust: comparing the fate of women and children
  • 11. German labor needs and the murder of Jewish men and women
  • 12. Devaluing Jewish labor
  • 13. Rape and Rassenschande during the Holocaust
  • 14. Murdering Jewish children.
Volume

v. 1 : hardback ISBN 9781108476553

Description

Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of data and evidence, Steven T. Katz analyses the fundamental differences between the Holocaust and new world slavery and re-evaluates our understanding of the Nazi agenda. Among the subjects he examines are: the use of black slaves as workers compared to the Nazi use of Jewish labor; the causes of slave demographic decline and growth in different New World locations; and the main features of Jewish life during the Holocaust relative to slave life. Katz shows the different ways in which slave women and children were valued as commodities. Thus, neither were intentionally murdered. By comparison, Jewish slave women and children were viewed as the ultimate racial enemy and therefore had to be exterminated. These and other findings conclusively demonstrate the uniqueness of the Holocaust compared with other historical instances of slavery.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Understanding black slavery in the New World
  • 2. The middle passage
  • 3. Considering slave demography in the New World
  • 4. Reproduction and miscegenation
  • 5. Breeding
  • 6. The conditions of bondage
  • 7. The conditions of bondage: beyond basic necessities
  • 8. Manumission.
Volume

v. 2 : hardback ISBN 9781108699044

Description

The second volume of the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery. Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of data and evidence, Steven T. Katz analyses the fundamental differences between the two systems and re-evaluates our understanding of the Nazi agenda. Among the subjects he examines are: the use of black slaves as workers compared to the Nazi use of Jewish labor; the causes of slave demographic decline and growth in different New World locations; the main features of Jewish life during the Holocaust relative to slave life with regard to such topics as diet, physical punishment, medical care, and the role of religion; the treatment of slave women and children as compared to the treatment of Jewish women and children in the Holocaust. Katz shows that slave women were valued as workers, as reproducers of future slaves, and as sexual objects, and that slave children were valued as commodities. For these reasons, neither slave women nor children were intentionally murdered. By comparison, Jewish slave women and children were viewed as the ultimate racial enemy and therefore had to be exterminated. These and other findings conclusively demonstrate the uniqueness of the Holocaust compared with other historical instances of slavery.

Table of Contents

  • 9. American slave law
  • 10. Black slavery and the Holocaust: comparing the fate of women and children
  • 11. German labor needs and the murder of Jewish men and women
  • 12. Devaluing Jewish labor
  • 13. Rape and Rassenschande during the Holocaust
  • 14. Murdering Jewish children.

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