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Author Walvin, James, author.

Title Freedom : the overthrowing of the slave empires / James Walvin.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Pegasus Books, 2019.
©2019

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.3 WALVIN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  306.362 WALVIN    Check Shelf
Edition First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Description xv, 304 pages : map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents People as things: The slave trade -- Sinews of empire: Africans and the making of American empires -- Slave defiance -- The slave owners' nightmare: Haiti -- The Friends of Black Freedom -- Freeing Britain's slaves -- The fall of US slavery -- The end of slavery in the Spanish empire -- The last to go: Brazil -- Abolition in the wider world -- Slavery in the modern age -- Conclusion.
Subject Slave rebellions -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation. (OCoLC)fst01120540
Slave insurrections. (OCoLC)fst01120389
Slavery -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Chronological Term 1800-1899
ISBN 9781643132068 (hardcover)
1643132067 (hardcover)
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