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Language: en
Pages: 361
Pages: 361
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08 - Publisher: LSU Press
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Language: en
Pages: 373
Pages: 373
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-01 - Publisher: LSU Press
"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." -- Reviews in H
Language: en
Pages: 450
Pages: 450
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-06 - Publisher: Vintage
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2014 With this volume, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greates
Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11 - Publisher: JHU Press
President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the
Language: en
Pages: 521
Pages: 521
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity