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Challenging the boundaries of slavery
By Davis, David Brion
- ISBN
- 978-0-67401-182-3
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 2003
Davis' brief but insightful analysis of the forces leading to the rise and fall of New World slavery is more than a precis of his past writing on the subject, as the author highlights movements and moments seldom linked to slavery or abolition. However, even an expert historian cannot thoroughly review world slavery in one chapter, and Davis's 30-page first section"The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery" contains some glaring omissions. His survey of human bondage features an important discussion of"white" and Muslim slavery, but Ira Berlin, Ronald Segal and others, inclu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
