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240 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300113150
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 27 March 2012
Description
Why did slavery--an accepted evil for thousands of years--suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Jos...
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240 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300113150
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 27 March 2012
Description
Why did slavery--an accepted evil for thousands of years--suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Jos...