From Slavery to Freedom

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From Slavery to Freedom is written by Seymour Drescher and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349148768 (ISBN 10) and 9781349148769 (ISBN 13).

The entries in this volume focus upon the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave system in comparative perspective. The subjects range from the rise of the slave trade in early modern Europe to a comparison of slave trade and the Holocaust of the twentieth century, dealing with both the history and historiography of slavery and abolition. They include essays on British, French, Dutch, and Brazilian abolition, as well as essays on the historiography of slavery and abolition since the publication of Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery more than fifty years ago.