Inhuman bondage :the rise and fall of slavery in the New World - Davis, David Brion (Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006)
The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of modern slavery -- The origins of anti-Black racism in the New World -- How Africans became integral to New World history -- The Atlantic slave system : Brazil and the Caribbean -- Slavery in Colonial North America -- The problem of slavery in the American Revolution -- The impact of the French and Haitian revolutions -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century South I : from contradiction to defense -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century south II -- Some nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts -- Explanations of British abolitionism -- Abolitionism in America -- The politics of slavery in the United States -- The Civil War and slave emancipation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-413) and index.
Keywords: Slavery -- United States -- History; Slavery -- America -- History; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History; Antislavery movements -- America -- History