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Author Walvin, James, author.

Title FREEDOM : THE OVERTHROWING OF THE SLAVE EMPIRES / James Walvin.

Edition Center Point Large Print edition.
Publication Info. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2019.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1992728~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Large Type Nonfiction  306.362 WAL    AVAILABLE
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Description 392 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium large print rdafs.
Note Regular print version previously published by: Pegasus Books.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents People as things: The slave trade -- Sinews of empire: Africans and the making of the 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.
Summary "The critically acclaimed author of Sugar explains one of the major shifts in Western history in the past five centuries-the end of the slave empires."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Slave insurrections -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- History -- 19th century.
Genre Large type books.
Added Title OVERTHROWING OF THE SLAVE EMPIRES
ISBN 9781643584225
1643584227
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