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A Brief History of Slavery

A Brief History of Slavery

A New Global History

by Jeremy Black
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/11/2008

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A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.



In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all the way to the present in the form of contemporary crimes such as trafficking and bonded labour. He shows how slavery has taken many forms throughout history and across the world - from the uprising of Spartacus, the plantations of the West Indies, and the murderous forced labour of the gulags and concentration camps.



Slavery helped to consolidate transoceanic empires and helped mould new world societies such as America and Brazil. Black charts the long fight for abolition in the nineteenth century, looking at both the campaigners as well as the harrowing accounts of the enslaved themselves.



Slavery is still with us today, and coerced labour can be found closer to home than one might expect.
ISBN:
9781849016896
9781849016896
Category:
Slavery & abolition of slavery
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-11-2008
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
196x128x22mm
Weight:
0.27kg
Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, USA.

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, USA.

His books include War: A Short History (2010), The War of 1812 (2009) and The Great War and the Making of the Modern World (2009).

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