Five thousand years of slavery /

Traces the practice of slavery throughout the millennia, drawing on historical narratives, personal accounts, and visual sources to cover such examples as the ancient Sumerian practice of selling impoverished children into bondage and the oppression of ninth-century Zanj salt marsh workers.

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Main Author: Gann, Marjorie
Other Authors: Willen, Janet
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Tundra Books, c2011.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 162) and index. 
505 0 |a To be a slave -- Kings, pharaohs, and prophets: the Ancient Near East -- Rebellion and revenge: Ancient Greece and Rome -- Saints and Vikings: Europe in the Middle Ages -- In the realm of the Qurʹan: slavery under Islam -- Caravans, canoes, and captives: Africa -- Explorers, laborers, warriors, chiefs: the Americas -- Treacherous triangle: South America and the Caribbean -- "The monster is dead!": British abolition -- In the land of liberty: North America -- Civil war, civil rights: The United States -- Blackbirders, coolies, and slave girls: Asia and the Southern Pacific -- Slavery is not history -- Modern world -- To be free. 
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