Slavery: Oxford Readers

by Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher, Robert L. Paquette

Book Overview

This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the economic, cultural, and political role of slavery, the volume shows the similarities as well as the differences in different times and places. While focusing primarily on the Americas, the volume extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies in the classical world, Africa, Asia, and the contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192893025
• ISBN13: 9780192893024
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"