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By: Blackburn, Robin
Price: $32.95
Publisher: New York, Verso: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16332
Only slight wear.; Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. A bright, solid book.; 9.58 X 6.44 X 1.50 inches; 602 pages; At the time when European powers colonized the Americas, the institution of slavery had almost disappeared from Europe itself. Having overcome an institution widely regarded as oppressive, why did they sponsor the construction of racial slavery in their new colonies?Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the... View more info
By: Hochschild, Adam
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2005
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 18507
Only slight wear, lack of price on dustjacket leads me to believe that this is a book club edition - otherwise it has the look and feel of a 1st ed. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar. ; 8.90 X 6.40 X 1.60 inches; 468 pages; "From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history -- the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire. In early ... View more info