Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 by Patrick Rael

Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865

Patrick Rael

416 pages paperback 2015

3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "house divided against itself," as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a...

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