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Language: en
Pages: 376
Pages: 376
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981-08-01 - Publisher: LSU Press
Historical observations of abolition have ranged from perspectives of contempt to acclamation, and now show signs of a major change in interpretation. The liter
Language: en
Pages: 513
Pages: 513
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
An original analysis of the definition and scope of the right not to be held in slavery, servitude and forced labour.
Language: en
Pages: 519
Pages: 519
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
The generally accepted historical viewpoint that the abolitionists were "meddlesome fanatics" is challenged here by a group of contemporary historians. In this
Language: en
Pages: 213
Pages: 213
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: LSU Press
"Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831-32, Matthews identifies four key aspects in British
Language: en
Pages: 234
Pages: 234
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
These essays--from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies--interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast rep
