Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires by James Walvin

Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires

James Walvin

320 pages first pub 2019 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on the resistance of the enslaved themselves—from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings—and its impact in overthrowin...

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