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The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the Americas

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Publisher
Verso
Language
English
Published
2012
  • Slavery & emancipation
  • Social history
  • History
  • History - U.S.
  • The Americas
  • United States - General

A history of the rise and abolition of slavery in the Americas covers such topics as the plantation revolution of the seventeenth century, the emergence of anti-slavery thought, and the contributions of such figures as Thomas Paine and Frederick Douglass.