The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States

by Laird Bergad and Laird W. Bergad

Book Overview

This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations, slavery spread to nearly every region, and in many areas it was the principal labor system utilized by rural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521694108
• ISBN13: 9780521694100
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"