TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,David Brion
TI  - The problem of slavery in the age of emancipation
SN  - 9780307269096 (hardback)
AV  - 002 E 449 D261p 2014
U1  - 306.3/62097309034 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - American Colonization Society
KW  - Slavery
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Free African Americans
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Africa
KW  - Esclavitud
KW  - Historia
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Siglo XIX
KW  - Emancipación de los esclavos
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-403) and index
N2  - "From the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly fifty years in the making.  David Brion Davis is one of the foremost historians of the twentieth century, and in this final volume in his monumental trilogy on slavery in Western culture he offers highly original, authoritative, and penetrating insight into what slavery and emancipation meant to Americans. He explores how the Haitian revolution respectively terrified and inspired white and black Americans, and offers a surprising analysis of the complex and misunderstood significance of colonization-the project to move freed slaves back to Africa-to members of both races and all political persuasions. Davis vividly portrays the dehumanizing impact of slavery, as well as the generally unrecognized importance of freed slaves to abolition. And he explores the influence of religion on American ideas about emancipation. Above all, he captures the ways in which America wrestled with the knotty problem of moving forward into an age of emancipation. This is a landmark work: a brilliant conclusion to one of the great works of American history"--
ER  -