Comparative Issues in Slavery

by Paul Finkelman (Introduction)

Volume Introduction; Richard R. Beeman, Labor Forces and Race A Comparative View of the Colonization of Brazil and Virginia; David Brion Davis, Slavery; Carl N. Degler, Slavery in Brazil and the United An Essay in Comparative History; Seymour Drescher, Brazilian Abolition in Comparative Perspective; Richard S. Dunn, A Tale of Two Slave Life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia, 1799-1828; Stanley M. Elkins, Cultural Contacts and Negro Slavery; S.M. Elkins and Eric McKitrick, Institutions and the Law of The Dynamics of Unopposed Capitalism & Slavery in Capitalist and Non-Capitalist Culture; M.I. Finley, Between Slavery and Freedom & The Idea of Slavery; Eugene D. Genovese, The Slave Economies in Political Perspective & Materialism and Idealism in the History of Negro Slavery in the Americas; Richard Graham, Slavery and Economic Brazil and the United States South in the 19th Century; Herbert S. Klein, Anglicanism, Catholicism and the Negro Slave & Fertility Differentials Between Slaves in the U.S. and the British West A Note on Lactation Practices and Their Possible Implications; Peter Augustine Lawler, Tocqueville on Slavery, Ancient and Modern; Michael Mullin, British Caribbean and North American Slaves in an Era of War and Revolution, 1775-1807; Arnold A. Sio, Interpretations of The Slave Status in the Americas; Howard Temperley, Capitalism, Slavery, and Ideology; Robert Brent Toplin, The Specter of Slaveholder Reactions to Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil

464 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1990

About the author

Paul Finkelman is an American legal historian. He received his undergraduate degree in American studies from Syracuse University in 1971, and his master's degree (1972) and doctorate (1976) in American history from the University of Chicago.