Leseprobe
CONTENT
Abstract
Chapter 1. Slavery – definition and historical background.
1.1. Preliminary remarks
1.2. Slavery - attempt at definition.
1.3. The development of slavery.
1.3.1. The African slave trade
1.3.2. Unfree labor in the North American colonies
1.3.3. Slavery and capitalism
1.4. Slavery and human rights–the emancipation movement.
Chapter 2. The specific character of the New York state
2.1. Preliminary remarks.
2.2. Slavery in the New York state in the colonial times.
2.3 New York as the biggest slavery state in the North.
2.3. Prohibiting the sale of slaves and gradual emancipation.
Chapter 3. Abolition and emancipation movement
3.1. Preliminary remarks
3.2. The New York Manumission Society.
3.3. John Jay – a leader of antislavery movement.
3.4. The failure of gradual emancipation and its reasons
Conclusions
Bibliography
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- MA Sylwia Mazur (Autor:in), 2015, Slavery in New York at the beginning of the 17th century, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/368512
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