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Abolition : A History of Slavery and Antislavery by Seymour Drescher is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Abolition : A History of Slavery and Antislavery about?
In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history. Three centuries later these same intercontinental actions produced a movement
Who reads Abolition : A History of Slavery and Antislavery?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Seymour Drescher
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612651588
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, World, History
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (16 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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