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Slavery in Early Christianity
Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been …
Nativism and Slavery
Politicians have used immigrants as scapegoats for the nation's problems throughout American history. No group achieved more success with this tactic than the Know Nothing Party, …
American Negro Slavery
Distinguished historians examine the genesis, development, and impact of slavery in America and explore related areas of study
Slavery, Law, and Politics
This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience. Although it condenses the original by …
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Bernard Lewis shows that racism was long intertwined with slavery in the Islamic world, as he traces the history of slavery in the region where it lasted longest. This beautifully …
Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-century Florence
Grounded in new archival research documenting a significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medici Florence, this book argues for the relevance of such …
Slavery and Human Progress
Slavery and Human Progress
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century. His trenchant analysis puts the …
Slavery and the Making of America
The history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that …
The Nature of Slavery
In the late eighteenth century, planters in the Caribbean and the American South insisted that only Black people could labor on plantations, arguing that Africans, unlike …