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More than three decades after its initial publication, J. Mills Thornton's Politics and Power in a Slave Society remains the definitive study of political cultu

Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.

Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and expor

The politics of slavery consumed the political world of the antebellum South. Although local economic, ethnic, and religious issues tended to dominate northern