THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE ANCIENT AND MODERN.The forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations particularly in Greece and Rome.THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE and the POLITICAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES.

W.O.Blake

Verlag: H.Miller, Ohio, 1861

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Finely bound in decorated leather covers with gold titles and stamps to spine.Light edge wear,corners bumped,clean and tidy.Block is sound and tight,marbled paste downs and prelims.Water stain on first 50 pages and last 120,no names or stamps etc.No foxing,clean pages.Illustrated with wood cuts. CONTENTS OVERVIEW - ANCIENT SLAVERYEARLY EXISTENCE OF SLAVERY IN THE WORLD. - THE MOSAIC INSTITUTIONS IN REGARD TO SLAVERY. - HEBREWS, HOW REDUCED TO SERVITUDE. - THE JUBILEE. - DISTINCTION BETWEEN NATIVE AND FOREIGN SLAVE. - VOLUNTARY SLAVES: THE MERCINARII OF THE ROMANS; THE PRODIGALS OR DEBTORS SLAVES; THE DELINQUENTS; THE ENTHUSIASTS. - INVOLUNTARY SLAVES; THE PRISONERS OF WAR, AND CAPTIVES STOLEN IN PEACE, WITH THE CHILDREN AND DESCENDANTS OF BOTH. - VOLUNTARY SLAVERY INTRODUCED BY DECREE OF THE ROMAN SENATE. - SLAVERY IN ROME: CONDITION OF THE SLAVES; CRUELTY TO THE OLD AND SICK; PRISONS FOR SLAVES; SICILY; SERVILE WAR AND BREAKING UP OF PRISONS. - PIRACY ESTEEMED HONORABLE BY THE EARLY GREEKS. - PIRATICAL EXPEDITIONS TO PROCURE SLAVES. - CAUSES OF THE GRADUAL EXTINCTION OF SLAVERY IN EUROPE. - ORIGIN OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE BY THE PORTUGUESE. - FOLLOWED BY MOST OF THE MARITIME NATIONS OF EUROPEplus a 10-page appendix covering the THE NOTORIOUS AND famous Dred Scott case.Nice sound clean copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000619

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Titel: THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE ...

Verlag: H.Miller, Ohio

Erscheinungsdatum: 1861

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None

Auflage: 2nd Edition