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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

David Brion Davis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:23rd Mar '89

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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.

`Immensely learned, readable, disturbing.' New York Review of Books

  • Winner of Winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in Non-fiction.

ISBN: 9780195056396

Dimensions: 203mm x 127mm x 33mm

Weight: 544g

528 pages