Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery : Evidence and Methods - Rilegato

 
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A probing analysis of the American institution of slavery examines the lives of the slaves, their condition and treatment, the economic repercussions of subjugation, the culture and society surrounding them, and abolitionist movement that helped bring about the end of slavery

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"Few historians have more skillfully integrated economic with social, intellectual and political history to demonstrate both the importance and the limits of economic developments-the material reality and the perception of it...Pleasurable as well as instructive reading for anyone interested in the most fateful of our national crimes and the most fearful of our national crises...[A] splendid book." -Eugene D. Genovese, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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