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Pages: 383
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language
Language: en
Pages: 467
Pages: 467
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Davis begins with the dramatic "Amistad" case, and then looks at slavery in the American South and the abolitionists who defeated one of human history's greates
Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-27 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
On Human Bondage—a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death—assesses how his theories have stood the test of
Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-14 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery was entrenched