Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World

David Brion Davis

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Summary: A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage offers a compelling narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism. The heart of the book looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary slaves, the highly destructive internal, long-distance slave trade, the sexual exploitation of slaves, the emergence of an African-American culture, and much more. It is the ultimate portrait of the dark side of the American dream. Yet it offers an inspiring example as well--the story of how abolitionists, barely a fringe group in the 1770s, successfully fought, in the space of a hundred years, to defeat one of human history's greatest evils.

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The Amistad test of law and justice

The ancient foundations of modern slavery

The origins of antiblack racism in the New World

How Africans became integral to New World history

Brazil and the Caribbean(The Atlantic slave system)

Slavery in Colonial North America(The Atlantic slave system)

The problem of slavery in the American Revolution(The Atlantic slave system)

The impact of the French and Haitian revolutions(The Atlantic slave system)

Slavery in the nineteenth-century South I: from contradiction to defense(The Atlantic slave system)

Slavery in the nineteenth-century south II: From slaveholder treatment and the nature of labor to slave culture, sex and religion, and free blacks(The Atlantic slave system)

Some nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts(The Atlantic slave system)

Explanations of British abolitionism(The Atlantic slave system)

Abolitionism in America(The Atlantic slave system)

The politics of slavery in the United States(The Atlantic slave system)

The Civil War and slave emancipation(The Atlantic slave system)