Five thousand years of slavery / Marjorie Gann and Janet Willen.
Title:
Five thousand years of slavery / Marjorie Gann and Janet Willen.
Alternate Title:
5000 years of slavery
By:
Publication Date:
2011
Publication Information:
Toronto : Tundra Books,
Physical Description:
168 p. : col. ill.
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Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780887769146
