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Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia.
Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia. Edited by Martin A. Klein (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1993) 222 pp. $40.00 cloth $14.95 paper
Even if there were fewer slaves in the Americas than in either Asia or Africa at any point in the century-long campaign to abolish slavery, it is still hard to visualize abolition without the Americas. Furthermore, although Western societies greatly increased both the global incidence and severity of slavery after 1492, it is almost impossible to imagine a world in which slavery is vilified without the experience of the West.
The great value of this book is that it forces …
