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Greatest emancipations : how the West abolished slavery / Jim Powell.

by Powell, Jim, 1944-

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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007045439-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007045439-d.html

9780230605923 :

284 p. ; 25 cm.

Could slavery be abolished? -- Ideas that inspired the abolitionists -- Haiti and the first successful slave revolt -- British abolitionists' peaceful campaign against slavery -- British diplomats and commanders struggle to stop the slave trade -- The United States and the military strategy for abolition -- Revolts, war and the collapse of Cuban slavery -- Brazil's resourceful abolitionists -- Courageous campaign against secret slavery in the Congo -- How did it all work out? -- Conclusion -- Timeline of antislavery in the Western world.

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