The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
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
Sterling Professor of History at Yale, author of Slavery and Human Progress (OUP 1984, Cloth; 1986, Paper)
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195056396 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195056396 |
| Title | The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture |
| Author | David Brion Davis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1989-03-23 |
| Number of pages | 518 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in Non-fiction. |
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