Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery

by David Brion Davis

Book Overview

In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world slavery, he traces continuities from the ancient world to the era of exploration, with its expanding markets and rise in consumption of such products as sugar, tobacco, spices, and chocolate, to the conditions of the New World settlement that gave rise to a dependence on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674019857
• ISBN13: 9780674019850
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.0" x 6.7"