Arming the Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Arming the Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age. Edited by Christopher Leslie Brown and Philip D. Morgan. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 368. $35.00.)

This set of essays, based on a conference held at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, looks at the arming of slaves from antiquity to the establishment of modern racial slavery in the New World. As David Brion Davis, former director of the center and distinguished historian of slavery, points out in his introduction, such ...

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