Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism

by Margaret Abruzzo

In 2008 and 2009, the United States Congress apologized for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery." Today no one denies the cruelty of slavery, but few issues inspired more controversy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Abolitionists denounced the inhumanity of slavery, while proslavery activists proclaimed it both just and humane. Margaret Abruzzo delves deeply into the slavery debate to better understand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801898528
• ISBN13: 9780801898525
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"