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Description:His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Engerman calls "a monumental and magisterial book, the essential work on New World slavery for several decades to come. The heart of the book looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary slaves, the highly destructive internal, long-distance slave trade, the sexual exploitation of slaves, the emergence of an African-American culture, and much more. But though centered on the United States, the book offers a global perspective spanning four continents. It is the only study of American slavery that reaches back to ancient foundations discussing the classical and biblical justifications for chattel bondage and also traces the long evolution of anti-black racism as in the writings of David Hume and Immanuel Kant, among many others.

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