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With this volume, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history. Bringing to a close his staggeringly ambitious, prizewinning trilogy on slavery in Western culture Davis offers original and penetrating insights into what slavery and emancipation meant to Americans. He explores how the Haitian Revolution respectively terrified and inspired white and black Americans, hovering over the antislavery debates like a bloodstained ghost. He offers a surprising analysis of the complex and misunderstood significance the project to move freed slaves back to Africa. He vividly portrays the dehumanizing impact of slavery, as well as the generally unrecognized importance of freed slaves to abolition. Most of all, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history.

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• Full title: Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
• Author: David Brion Davis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9780307389695
• ISBN: 0307389693
• ID: 06400414
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Weight: 372 g
• Dimensions: 205 × 134 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. January 2015

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