Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Date: 1988. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1988. Oxford University Press, Incorporated ISBN 0195056396 9780195056396 [US]

ISBN10: 0195056396, ISBN13: 9780195056396, [publisher: Oxford University Press USA 1966-01-01] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1966]

Paperback / softback. New. A classic study of the history of slavery and men's changing attitudes to it, from antiquity to the early 1770s. This book won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize. ISBN 0195056396 9780195056396 [GB]

ISBN10: 0195056396, ISBN13: 9780195056396, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. Winner of several national awards including the 1967 Pulitzer Prize, this classic study by David Brion Davis has given new direction to the historical and sociological research of society's attitude towards slavery. Davis depicts the various ways different societies have responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770's in order to establish the uniqueness of the abolitionists' response. While slavery has alwayscaused considerable social and psychological tension, Western culture has associated it with certain religious and philosophical doctrines that gave it the highest sanction. The contradiction ofslavery grew more profound when it became closely linked with American colonization, which had as its basic foundation the desire and opportunity to create a more perfect society. Davis provides a comparative analysis of slave systems in the Old World, a discussion of the early attitudes towards American slavery, and a detailed exploration of the early protests against Negro bondage, as well as the religious, literary, and philosophical developments that contributed to both sides in thecontroversies of the late eighteenth century. This exemplary introduction to the history of slavery in Western culture presents the traditions in thought and value that gave rise to the attitudes of bothabolitionists and ...
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