Who Abolished Slavery?
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-84545-636-8 (ISBN)
Seymour Drescher is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as the first Secretary for the European Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. (1984–85). Known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and the history of slavery, his book, The Mighty Experiment (2002), was awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize. His most recent book, Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery, is being published by Cambridge University Press.
Preface
Pieter C. Emmer and Seymour Drescher
PART I
Introduction: Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery: An Overinterpretation
João Pedro Marques
PART II
Chapter 1. Africa and Abolitionism
John Thornton
Chapter 2. Who Abolished Slavery in the Dutch Caribbean?
Pieter C. Emmer
Chapter 3. Slave Resistance and Emancipation: The Case of Saint-Domingue
David Geggus
Chapter 4. Civilizing Insurgency. Two Variants of Slave Revolts in the Age of Revolution
Seymour Drescher
Chapter 5. The Wars of Independence, Slave Soldiers, and the Issue of Abolition in Spanish South America
Peter Blanchard
Chapter 6. Shipboard Slave Revolts and Abolition
David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman
Chapter 7. Slave Resistance and Abolitionis: A Multifaceteted Issue
Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau
Chapter 8. Slave Revolts and Abolitionism
David Brion Davis
Chapter 9. The Role of Slave Resistance in Slave Emancipation
Robin Blackburn
Chapter 10. Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery: A Misinterpretation
Hilary Beckles
PART III
Afterthoughts
João Pedro Marques
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography from the Commentaries
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.2.2010 |
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Reihe/Serie | European Expansion & Global Interaction |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 485 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
ISBN-10 | 1-84545-636-X / 184545636X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84545-636-8 / 9781845456368 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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