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001 2009938446
003 DLC
005 20150116083532.0
008 091002s2011 oncab j b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aHT861$b.G35 2011
082 04 $aj306.3/6209$222
100 1 $aGann, Marjorie.
245 10 $aFive thousand years of slavery /$cMarjorie Gann and Janet Willen.
246 30 $aSlavery
260 $aToronto :$bTundra Books,$cc2011.
300 $a168 p. :$bill. (some col.), col. maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 162-[163]) and index.
505 0 $aTo be a slave -- Kings, pharaohs, and prophets: the Ancient Near East -- Rebellion and revenge: Ancient Greece and Rome -- Saints and Vikings: Europe in the Middle Ages -- In the realm of the Qurʹan: slavery under Islam -- Caravans, canoes, and captives: Africa -- Explorers, laborers, warriors, chiefs: the Americas -- Treacherous triangle: South America and the Caribbean -- "The monster is dead!": British abolition -- In the land of liberty: North America -- Civil war, civil rights: The United States -- Blackbirders, coolies, and slave girls: Asia and the Southern Pacific -- Slavery is not history -- Modern world -- To be free.
520 $aTraces 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.
650 0 $aSlavery$xHistory$vJuvenile literature.
650 1 $aSlavery.
650 7 $aSlavery$xHistory.$2sears
700 1 $aWillen, Janet.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2009938446-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2009938446-d.html