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The problem of slavery in the age of emancipation

Davis, David Brion, author

Overview

Davis offers insights into what slavery and emancipation meant to Americans. He explores how the Haitian Revolution respectively terrified and inspired white and black Americans, hovering over the antislavery debates like a bloodstained ghost, and he offers an analysis of the significance of colonization - the project to move freed slaves back to Africa - to members of both races and all political persuasions. He portrays the dehumanizing impact of slavery, as well as the generally unrecognized importance of freed slaves to abolition. Most of all, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history.

• Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
• Subject: American Colonization Society. / Slavery United States History 19th century. / Slaves Emancipation United States. / Free African Americans History 19th century. / Antislavery movements United States History 19th century. / Antislavery movements Great Britain History 19th century. / African Americans Colonization Africa.
• ISBN: 0307389693, 9780307389695

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
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