Abolition

by Seymour Drescher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521600855
• ISBN13: 9780521600859
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"