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Article: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2008
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. By David Brion Davis. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 331. $30.00.)
This book confirms the author's status as a preeminent scholar of slavery in the Western world. Acknowledging that slavery and its abolition in the Americas cannot be understood outside of a global and historical context, Inhuman Bondage chronicles the story of slavery in the New World in a comparative and interdisciplinary manner. The central premise running throughout the study is that slavery was a fundamental, indeed indispensable, part of New World settlement. Building upon this foundation, David Brion Davis ...