| Drawing on a wide range of documentary sources this Oxford Reader explores the origins, history and realities of slavery from a global perspective. In passages that range chronologically from the Bible and Aristotle to the Economist in 1997, the volume covers the historical justification for slavery, methods of enslavement and the slave trade, as well as slave resistance and abolitionism, providing key insights through the writings of slaves, slave owners, abolitionists, economists, lawyers and historians.
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