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    Abolition : a history of slavery and antislavery / Seymour Drescher.

    • Title:Abolition : a history of slavery and antislavery / Seymour Drescher.
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    • Author/Creator:Drescher, Seymour.
    • Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Slavery--History.
      Antislavery movement--History.
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Description:xi, 471 p. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780521841023 (hardback)
      052184102X (hardback)
    • Contents:Pt. 1. Extension
      1. Perennial Institution
      2. Expanding Slavery
      3. Extension and Tension
      Pt. 2. Crisis
      4. Border Skirmishes
      5. Age of the American Revolution, 1770s-1820s
      6. Franco-American Revolutions, 1780s-1820s
      7. Latin American Revolutions, 1810s-1820s
      8. Abolitionism without Revolution: Great Britain, 1770s-1820s
      Pt. 3. Contraction
      9. British Emancipation
      10. From Colonial Emancipation to Global Abolition
      11. End of Slavery in Anglo-America
      12. Abolishing New World Slavery - Latin America
      13. Emancipation in the Old World, 1880s-1920s
      Pt. 4. Reversion
      14. Reversion in Europe
      15. Cycles Actual and Counterfactual.
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