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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
By Davis, David Brion
- ISBN
- 9780307269096 9780385351652
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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Starred Review on February 15, 2014 | Social Sciences
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Davis (Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale Univ.) here completes his trilogy begun with The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966) and continued with The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (1975). Intellectual history again marks Davis's focus on the hundred years from the 1780s to the 1880s that saw the outlawing of slavery in the Americas from Canada and New England to Chile and Brazil. Beginnin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
