The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture won the Pulitzer Prize. This classic book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Ediciones Uniandes
- Year
- 1988
- ISBN-13
- 9780195056396
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- SlaveryAbolitionismWestern intellectual history
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1967)
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionWonMajor(1967)
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1967)
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