For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. "Greatest Emancipation" tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted for the vast majority of slaves in the west. Jim Powell offers some surprising insights and shows that while the abolition of slavery was essential to any free society, it wasn't the sole determing factor, since some societies ...
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For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. "Greatest Emancipation" tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted for the vast majority of slaves in the west. Jim Powell offers some surprising insights and shows that while the abolition of slavery was essential to any free society, it wasn't the sole determing factor, since some societies that abolished slavery later embraced dictatorships. Jim Powell reveals the process and tremendous influence that slavery's eradication had on individual societies in the west.
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Fine in Near Fine d/j jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1/2" Faint bend on mid spine of dust jacket. Publicity info laid in. ISBN-13: 978-0-230-60592-3 Brown covers with gold lettering on spine. 284 pages.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Slavery 284 pages. Comments on the back cover: "...Powell develops a case that the more violence involved in an emancipation, the worse the outcome tended to be. Among other things, the destruction and killing of war led to a backlash that nobody could control, a backlash that subverted civil rights for decades. Readers will be interested to see Powell's reasons for believing that civil rights probably would have been achieved decades sooner if war--including the U.S. Civil War--had been avoided..."
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