Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-523) and index.
Discoveries and dilemmas -- Slavery as an economic and social system. Slavery in the new world ; Occupational patterns ; Unraveling some economic riddles ; The development of the Southern economy ; The population question ; Changing interpretations of slave culture -- The ideological and political campaign against slavery. The British campaign ; The American campaign : from the revolution to the abolitionist crusade ; The American campaign : breaching the barriers of antislavery politics ; The American campaign : forging a victorious antislavery coalition -- The moral problem of slavery.
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The author examines the lives of slaves in the Americas, the world surrounding them, and the economic consequences of a system of subjugation.