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Freedom, the overthrowing of the slave empires, James Walvin

Label
Freedom, the overthrowing of the slave empires, James Walvin
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
maps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Freedom
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1085216820
Responsibility statement
James Walvin
Sub title
the overthrowing of the slave empires
Table Of Contents
People as things: The slave trade -- Sinews of empire: Africans and the making of American empires -- Slave defiance -- The slave owners' nightmare: Haiti -- The Friends of Black Freedom -- Freeing Britain's slaves -- The fall of US slavery -- The end of slavery in the Spanish empire -- The last to go: Brazil -- Abolition in the wider world -- Slavery in the modern age -- Conclusion