Slavery : real people and their stories of enslavement
Presents the history of the European and North American slave trade from the 16th century on. Combines dramatic personal accounts with startling images to tell the real story behind the slave trade. Includes a brief glimpse of current slavery.
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Slave trade > History > Juvenile literature. Slavery > History > Juvenile literature. |
- ISBN: 0756651697
- ISBN: 9780756651695
- Physical Description 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
- Publisher New York : DK Pub., 2009.
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General Note: | Includes index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 28.99 |
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Slavery : Real People and Their Stories of Enslavement
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Slavery : Real People and Their Stories of Enslavement
Slavery is a comprehensive look at the history of an abomination. Words and images reveal the story of slavery around the world and across the centuries, focusing on slavery in the United States in the 1800s. This authoritative, heavily illustrated guide looks at the escalation of the Atlantic slave trade, the African peoples who were targeted, the lives they led as slaves in the American South, the slow growth of worldwide anti-slavery movements, abolition in the United States, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and more. Understand slavery-and how America's slave past has influenced its racial atmosphere today-with Slavery .