Greatest Emancipations: How the West Abolished Slavery
Jun 2008 · Macmillan + ORM
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For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted for the vast majority of slaves in the west. Jim Powell offers some surprising insights and shows that while the abolition of slavery was essential to any free society, it wasn't the sole determing factor, since some societies that abolished slavery later embraced dictatorships. Jim Powell reveals the process and tremendous influence that slavery's eradication had on individual societies in the west.
For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accoun...
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Jim Powell has been a senior fellow at the Cato Institute since 1988. He is the author of popular history books such as FDR's Folly and Wilson's War and has written more than four hundred articles for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Money, Reason, and numerous other national publications. He lives in Westport, CT.
Jim Powell has been a senior fellow at the Cato Institute since 1988. He is the author of popular history books such as FDR's Folly and Wilson's War and has written more than four hundred articles for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Money, Reason, and numerous ot...
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