The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

David Brion Davis

Paperback (23 Mar 1989)

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This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780195056396
Publisher:	OUP USA
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	23 Mar 1989
Language:	English
Number of pages:	505
Weight:	578g
Height:	131mm
Width:	204mm
Spine width:	38mm