Slavery through the ages
(2014)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
Y/306.362/NARDO,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Detroit : Lucent Books, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2014]
DESCRIPTION
104 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781420508604 (hardcover), 9781420508604, 1420508601 :
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Slavery in the earliest civilizations -- Slavery defined as natural : ancient Greece -- Slavery on an immense scale : ancient Rome -- The early modern slave trade develops -- That "peculiar institution" : slavery in America -- Slavery's survival in the modern world
Chronicles the history of the enslavement of human beings, covering the different types of slavery from the ancient world, to the medieval era, to slavery in Europe and the United States as practiced in the nineteenth century